Category Archives: Top Stories
Shooter wanted following late Tuesday fight
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say they want your help as they are still looking for someone who allegedly shot a man in Central Peoria late Tuesday night. Police say it happened just before midnight on...
May 31, 2023 Midwest Communications
Man, suspected of South Peoria shooting, arrested
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man didn't injure anyone, but he was arrested at his South Peoria home for allegedly shooting outside it. Peoria Police say James Ogle, 44, remains jailed on charges of Aggrava...
May 31, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria Police)
UPDATE: US House passes debt ceiling deal as default threat looms
UPDATED 8:34 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A divided U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to suspend the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling on Wednesday, with majority support from both Democrats and Re...
May 31, 2023 U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) returns to his office at the U.S. Capitol after a procedural vote ahead of a final vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on a bill raising the federal government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, in Washington, U.S., May 31, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson
'That 70s Show' actor Danny Masterson convicted on two rape counts
(Reuters) - "That '70s Show" actor Danny Masterson was convicted on Wednesday of raping two women at his Hollywood Hills home. A jury deadlocked on another charge that Masterson raped a third woman be...
May 31, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Actor Danny Masterson is arraigned on three rape charges in separate incidents between 2001 and 2003, at Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Failed Republican candidate charged in shooting spree aimed at New Mexico Democrats
(Reuters) - A failed Republican state candidate in New Mexico was charged by federal authorities on Wednesday for a shooting spree targeting the homes of four elected Democratic officials, the U.S. Ju...
May 31, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Solomon Pena poses for a jail booking photograph after his arrest by the Albuquerque Police Department in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. January 17, 2023. Metropolitan Detention Center/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo
Pekin Police want help locating theft suspect
PEKIN, Ill. - Pekin Police are asking for your help in solving a theft case from earlier in May. Police have posted to social media a video of a woman they say is wanted for questioning in connection ...
May 31, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Pekin Police via Facebook)
Injured and fallen police officers receive state Medals of Honor
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Local police officers injured or killed in the line of duty in recent years are receiving a high honor. Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly Wednesday gave the Law Enforcem...
May 31, 2023 East Peoria Police Officer Jeffrey Bieber receives a Law Enforcement Medal of Honor from Illinois State Police DIrector Brendan Kelly Wednesday in Springfield. (State of Illinois)
Pritzker touts new budget's higher education spending
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Governor JB Pritzker began a tour of the state to tout the new state budget that lawmakers passed last week, stopping at two university campuses Wednesday t...
May 31, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker is pictured at the University of Illinois Springfield Wednesday during a news conference called to tout the state budget's higher education spending. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Carle Health moves Peoria rehab facility
PEORIA, Ill. - One of the operations of Carle Health in Peoria is on the move. Carle says what was the Inpatient Rehabilitation Center at Methodist Hospital will move to Proctor Hospital as of Thursda...
May 31, 2023 (Carle Health)
UPDATE: Sorensen votes in favor of debt ceiling bill, LaHood votes against it
UPDATED 9:31 P.M. WASHINGTON, D.C. - "This is a compromise that I can agree to." Those were some of the words Wednesday afternoon of 17th District Congressman Eric Sorensen, ahead of Wednesday night's...
May 31, 2023 (Rep. Eric Sorensen via Zoom)
