Category Archives: Top Stories
UPDATE: Four killed, 28 injured in Alabama birthday party shooting
UPDATED 5:36 P.M. DADEVILLE, Alabama (Reuters) -At least four people were killed, including a high school football player, in a shooting that erupted during a birthday party held inside a dance studio...
Apr 16, 2023 Blood is seen on the doorframe of Mahogany Masterpiece Dance Studio, a day after a shooting at a teenager's birthday party in the dance studio in Dadeville, Alabama, U.S., April 16, 2023. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
UPDATE: Shooting in Louisville, Kentucky park kills two, injures four
UPDATED 5:44 p.m. LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Two people are dead and four others wounded in the second shooting in less than a week in Louisville, Kentucky. FOX News reports this shooting happened around 9 p.m...
Apr 16, 2023 Midwest Communications
Rivermen take care of Pensacola in Round 1 of SPHL playoffs
PEORIA, Ill. - Getting through the first round of the SPHL playoffs was easy for the Peoria Rivermen, while getting home to play the game that got them there wasn't. A bus breakdown led the Rivermen t...
Apr 16, 2023 (Peoria Rivermen)
Hail, high wind gusts reported from Saturday severe weather
LINCOLN, Ill. - A Saturday night round of severe weather didn't pack much of a punch across some parts of the Peoria area, but it did in others. According to storm damage reports from the National Wea...
Apr 16, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Fulton County concerned storm-affected residents may not get aid
FULTON COUNTY, Ill. - While Fulton County residents are still cleaning up from tornadoes earlier this month, questions linger about whether or not they will get aid to get back on their feet. 25 News ...
Apr 15, 2023 (Fulton County Sheriffs Department)
COVID spread risk decreasing in Illinois
CHICAGO, Ill. - The risk of COVID-19 spreading in Illinois is decreasing. The Illinois Department of Public Health says just six counties are at an elevated level of risk. All six are located in north...
Apr 15, 2023 (Illinois Department of Public Health)
Biden says he will announce run for re-election 'soon'
KNOCK, Ireland (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he has decided to run for a second term and would formally announce his re-election campaign "relatively soon." "We'll announce it rel...
Apr 15, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden gestures during an event at St. Muredach's Cathedral in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, April 14, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
Juvenile accused of taking gun to Dunlap school
DUNLAP, Ill. - A juvenile is in custody after Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins says a student brought a gun to Dunlap Middle School Friday. Watkins says detectives were called there at 3:43 p.m. af...
Apr 14, 2023 (Dunlap School District)
Best Buy lays off hundreds of store workers in online push - WSJ
(Reuters) -Best Buy Co Inc is cutting store jobs across the United States as the electronics retailer looks to trim costs and shift its business more towards e-commerce, the Wall Street Journal report...
Apr 14, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A person walks in front of Best Buy during Black Friday sales in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.,, November 25, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
New American citizens sworn-in at Bradley University
PEORIA, Ill. - For 239 people, Friday was the completion of a journey to be a citizen of their new home. They took part in a naturalization ceremony at Renaissance Coliseum on the campus of Bradley Un...
Apr 14, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
