Category Archives: Top Stories
UPDATE: Search for missing Titanic sub focuses on area where sounds detected
UPDATED 1:45 P.M. (Reuters) -Rescuers searching for a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic on Wednesday concentrated their efforts on a remote area of the North Atlantic where a series of...
Jun 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The Titan submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions to explore the wreckage of the sunken Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, dives in an undated photograph. OceanGate Expeditions/Handout via REUTERS / FILE PHOTO
Peoria shooting leaves man seriously injured
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police responded to three back to back ShotSpotter alerts Tuesday night in the area of W. Marquette and W. Antoinette. The first alert came from W. Marquette Avenue around 11:30 ...
Jun 21, 2023 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Two children hurt in fire at Edgewood Apartments in West Peoria
UPDATED 6:27 P.M. WEST PEORIA, Ill. - - Two adults and two children escaped a fire at the Edgewood Apartments Tuesday night in West Peoria. Fire Chief Terry Schadt said crews arrived at the complex on...
Jun 21, 2023 (25 News)
Man sentenced to prison for fatal street racing crash
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man convicted last month in connection with a fatal crash in late 2021 is getting almost as much as he could have in prison. Court records say Darien Davis, 33, was handed a 31...
Jun 20, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
UPDATE: Maximum prison sentence for teen convicted of fatal 2022 DUI
UPDATED 5:10 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A teenager who pleaded guilty in March to causing a fatal crash almost a year and a half ago is going to prison for the crime, and received the sentence prosecutors as...
Jun 20, 2023 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Resident reacts to latest shooting death in South Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Some South Peoria residents are starting to speak out about the violence in their neighborhoods, after a 15-year-old was shot and killed over the weekend. One resident, speaking anonymo...
Jun 20, 2023 Midwest Communications
Peoria-area restaurants and eateries receive state recognition
PEORIA, Ill. - Four Peoria-area businesses have been recognized by the state for keeping it local and homemade. The Illinois Makers program honors businesses in the state that produce their products i...
Jun 20, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Gannett sues Google, alleges online ad monopoly
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper chain and publisher of USA Today, on Tuesday sued Google for trying to corner the market for online advertising by monopolizing ad technology. I...
Jun 20, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The logo for Google LLC is seen at the Google Store Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 17, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
New green space for youth at Neighborhood House
PEORIA, Ill. - An important Peoria organization has some new space it's using, thanks in part to another important Peoria organization. The Rotary Club of Peoria gave Neighborhood House a $26,000 gran...
Jun 20, 2023 (Courtesy Jason Parkinson)
Stalled bills include repeal of subminimum wage for disabled workers, BIPA reform
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - While hundreds of bills cleared the General Assembly in the final month of the legislative session, some big-ticket measures will have to wait until at leas...
Jun 20, 2023 State Rep. Theresa Mah (center, D-Chicago) speaks to a House committee in the final week of the spring legislative session. She is sponsoring a bill that would end the practice of allowing some employers to pay disabled individuals less than the minimum wage. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
