Category Archives: Top Stories
Two arrested on Mob Action, Battery, other charges
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peoria residents were arrested, but records indicate they're now out of jail -- after police say they were seen pointing guns at each other Saturday afternoon, and assaulted another...
May 08, 2023 George Lewis (left) and Dayshaun Smullin (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria man arrested Saturday on multiple weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is facing multiple weapon charges after being arrested Saturday evening. Peoria Police says a License Plate Reader helped located a vehicle associated with a wanted subject...
May 08, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Police investigate attempted ATM theft
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are trying to figure out who tried to steal an ATM in the area of the Shoppes at Grand Prairie. Police say it happened around 1:45 a.m. Monday on West American Prairie Dri...
May 08, 2023 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
Woman who sued over Subway tuna seeks to quit case; Subway demands sanctions
(Reuters) - The California woman suing Subway for claiming its tuna products contain ingredients other than tuna wants to end her lawsuit because she is pregnant, prompting Subway to demand her lawyer...
May 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a Subway sandwich store in central London January 22, 2014. Subway, one of the largest fast-food chains in the world, plans to open over 1,200 new stores in the UK and Ireland by 2020, creating another 13,000 jobs, it said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Andrew Winning/File Photo
East Peoria FD promotions include historic first
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The East Peoria Fire Department made three promotions official on Monday, one of which was a first. Veronica Marmitt was the first woman promoted to assistant chief in the departme...
May 08, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Texas deploys special border force to drive back expected migrant surge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas deployed a special border force on Monday to target "hot spots" where migrants try to enter the United States illegally after sweeping COVID-19 restrictions at the Mexican...
May 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Migrants cross the Rio Bravo river with the intention of turning themselves in to the U.S. Border Patrol agents, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico May 5, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo
Firefighters battle electrical fire Sunday night in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria crews were called to a home on N. North Street, near W. Lake, just before 11 p.m. Sunday on reports of a fire. Light smoke could be seen coming from the exterior of the home. Ba...
May 08, 2023 D4E / CC
UPDATE: Texas driver charged with manslaughter after deadly Brownsville crash
UPDATED 5:26 P.M. (Reuters) - A Texas man accused of crashing his car into a group of pedestrians near a Brownsville homeless shelter housing migrants, killing eight people, has been charged with mans...
May 08, 2023 George Alvarez, 34, accused of mowing down a group of pedestrians with his SUV near a homeless shelter that attends to migrants, attends his arraignment charged with eight counts of manslaughter in Brownsville, Texas, U.S. May 8, 2023 in a still image from video. Brownsville Police Department/Handout via REUTERS
Biden, McCarthy aim to break US debt-ceiling standoff as default crisis looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and top Republicans and Democrats from Congress are set to sit down this week to try to resolve a three-month standoff over the $31.4 trillion U.S. debt ceil...
May 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden hands a copy of the speech to U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) prior to delivering State of the Union address his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 7, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Downed branches, power outages the story of Sunday's severe weather
PEORIA, Ill. - There weren't a lot of reports of major damage from the second round of severe weather to hit the Tri-Counties during the weekend, but most of the damage reports were of the same proble...
May 07, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
