Category Archives: Top Stories
Disaster declaration approved for Fulton County for April tornadoes
CHICAGO, Ill. - Relief is on the way for Fulton County residents affected by damage from tornadoes on the evening of April 4th. The U.S. Small Business Administration announced on Tuesday that a disas...
May 09, 2023 (Fulton County Sheriffs Department)
Tempur Sealy seeks sales bounce with $4 billion deal for Mattress Firm
(Reuters) -Tempur Sealy International Inc said on Tuesday it would buy retailer Mattress Firm in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $4 billion, as the leading U.S. bedding maker looks to stem a pos...
May 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A Mattress Firm store, a brand owned by Steinhoff, is shown in Encinitas, California, U.S., January 25, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Man arrested after weekend bar fight
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man was arrested after fights at Crusens in West Peoria Friday night. 24-year-old Jarkeith White-Emerson was charged with aggravated battery and resisting a peace officer. Arriving j...
May 09, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria Co. Sheriff's Office)
New mental health hospital coming to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A new mental health hospital will be coming to Peoria in the next couple years. The Meadowview Behavioral Hospital will be a 64,000 square foot, 100-bed facility located on Illinois Rou...
May 09, 2023 (OSF HealthCare)
UPDATE: Biden, McCarthy divided over debt ceiling but still talking
UPDATED 6:06 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and top lawmakers failed to break a deadlock on Tuesday in face-to-face talks over raising the $31.4 trillion U.S. debt limit but vowed to ...
May 09, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden hosts debt limit talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 9, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Hundreds of migrants amass near US-Mexico wall with COVID ban set to end
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Long lines of migrants have amassed this week in the border city of Tijuana, near the sprawling wall that divides Mexico from the United States, in the final days of a three-ye...
May 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Migrants gather between the primary and secondary border fences in San Diego as the United States prepares to lift COVID-19 era restrictions known as Title 42, that have blocked migrants at the U.S.- Mexico border from seeking asylum since 2020, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico May 8, 2023. REUTERS/Aimee Melo/File Photo
PPS board, parents discuss "inappropriate object" at Monday's meeting
PEORIA, Ill. -- Communication was the main issue among the group of Kellar Primary School parents expressing their frustration with the school board following an incident in late April on a Peoria Pub...
May 09, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Three-vehicle crash causes at least one injury
PEORIA, Ill. - Three people were injured after an accident at the Interstate 74 Sterling off-ramp. Peoria Firefighters say the crash happened just after 4:00 p.m. Monday. The three-vehicle accident in...
May 08, 2023 (Photo taken from Illinois Department of Transportation traffic camera)
Abortion providers sue to preserve, expand access to abortion pill
(Reuters) - A group of abortion providers on Monday filed a lawsuit aiming to preserve access to the abortion pill mifepristone as anti-abortion opponents aim to ban it in a separate case. The lawsuit...
May 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A container holding boxes of Mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at Alamo Women's Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, U.S., April 20, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Twitter to remove inactive accounts
(Reuters) -Social media platform Twitter Inc will remove accounts that have been inactive for several years, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet on Monday. Musk added that users on the micro-blogging platfo...
May 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Twitter app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
