Category Archives: Top Stories
Robert Kennedy Jr to make 2024 Democratic presidential bid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lawyer and vaccine skeptic, will make a bid for the White House in 2024, becoming the second long-shot Democratic candidate to challenge President Joe B...
Apr 06, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife actor Cheryl Hines arrive for a speech by Kennedy at the NH Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., March 3, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Apartment fire causes $200K in damages in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called to the Schlarman House apartments on NE Madison around 9:15 Wednesday night. Fire was found in a second-floor apartment with the sprinklers going off. I...
Apr 06, 2023 D4E / CC
Former U.S. VP Pence will not appeal ruling requiring his testimony in Jan. 6 probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will not appeal a judge's ruling that requires him to testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with former President Donald Trump...
Apr 06, 2023 Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence delivers remarks, in part addressing his opposition to a grand jury subpoena for testimony about efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection loss, to the Coolidge Presidential Foundation conference at the Library of Congress in Washington, U.S. February 16, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Tornado kills 5 after tearing through southeastern Missouri
(Reuters) -Five people were killed in a predawn tornado that ripped through southeastern Missouri on Wednesday, shearing off roofs, splintering trees and taking down power lines in devastated Bollinge...
Apr 06, 2023 A view of damaged homes in the aftermath of a tornado, after a volatile storm system tore through the South and Midwest on Tuesday and Wednesday, in Glenallen, Missouri, U.S. April 5, 2023. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
Long track tornado from Tuesday night storms
FULTON COUNTY, Ill. -- National Weather Service survey teams spent Wednesday surveying tornado damage in several Fulton county communities. The preliminary findings indicated a tornado on the ground f...
Apr 06, 2023 (National Weather Service)
Task force formed to address carjackings with money from Secretary of State
PEORIA, Ill. - There's a new method in place to try and combat a growing problem in the city of Peoria and Peoria County: carjackings. Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias came to Peoria Wednesday to ...
Apr 05, 2023 (Illinois Secretary of State via Facebook)
Taiwan leader, US Speaker McCarthy meet in California despite Chinese warnings
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (Reuters) -U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California on Wednesday, becoming the most senior U.S. figure to meet a Taiwanese leader on U.S...
Apr 05, 2023 Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen meets the U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, U.S. April 5, 2023. REUTERS/David Swanson
Fulton County still cleaning up, assessing damage, from Tuesday's storms
FULTON COUNTY, Ill. - Damage in Fulton County from Tuesday night's severe weather is still as bad as anticipated -- but, thankfully, no loss of life. That is according to the latest update from the Fu...
Apr 05, 2023 (25 News)
Some turnover in Tazewell County government bodies
PEKIN, Ill. - Government bodies in Tazewell County will be seeing some turnover. The only contested race in Morton was on the school board where four candidates fought for three four-year seats. All o...
Apr 05, 2023 Midwest Communications
Morning fire damages garage in East Peoria
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Firefighters responded Wednesday morning to a fire in a detached garage on Esser Street, near Pleasant and Loren Streets, in East Peoria. East Peoria Fire Chief Bobby Zimmerman sa...
Apr 05, 2023 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
