Category Archives: Top Stories
Former Peoria City Council at-large member passes away
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City Council took time at Tuesday night's meeting to honor and remember a former at-large member. Timothy J. Newlin passed away on Friday, March 24th at his home surrounded b...
Mar 29, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Wright & Salmon Mortuary)
Security authority discusses tactics to make schools safer from attacks
PEORIA, Ill. -- Following a deadly mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, school security is top of mind. 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a former student of Covenant School, a private Christian sc...
Mar 29, 2023 (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via Facebook)
N.Y. grand jury not expected to consider Trump case again until after Easter -source
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York grand jury probing former President Donald Trump's alleged role in a hush-money payment to a porn star is not expected to reconvene on the matter until after the Apri...
Mar 29, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on education as he holds a campaign rally with supporters, in Davenport, Iowa, U.S. March 13, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Peoria Fire responds to early morning fire at apartment complex
PEORIA, Ill. - No one was injured after a patio fire at an apartment complex early Wednesday morning. Peoria Fire received a call just before 2:30 A.M. to the Haymeadow Apartments on West Haymeadow re...
Mar 29, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Tennessee governor says his wife, 2 school shooting victims were friends
NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Mourners will gather at a vigil on Wednesday to grieve the three children and three adults shot to death this week at a Nashville Christian school, as Tennessee's governor reveal...
Mar 29, 2023 View of signs placed by children from St. Paul Christian Academy along the street in remembrance after a deadly shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 28, 2023. REUTERS/Austin Anthony
Nashville school shooter had 'emotional disorder' and small arsenal, police say
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - The former student of a Christian grade school in Nashville who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults in a shooting spree there was under a doctor's care for an "e...
Mar 29, 2023 Emily Ryan and her children pray at a memorial at the school entrance after a deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., March 28, 2023. REUTERS/Austin Anthony
Ukraine says Russians repelled in Bakhmut
(Reuters) - Russian forces are relentless in their attempts to capture the bombed-out eastern Ukrainian towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka but are not making progress, Ukraine's military said, but a pro-Mo...
Mar 29, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A general view shows a car damaged by debris, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Avdiivka, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, March 15, 2023, in this screen grab obtained from a video. Donetsk Region Police/Handout via REUTERS
Calls for action as panel releases data showing deep racial disparity in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City Council received data Tuesday night about racial inequities in the city and in Peoria County that one elected official said was "very sobering" and what the mayor descr...
Mar 29, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
McCarthy urges Biden to start debt talks, Democrats say he has no plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy urged President Joe Biden on Tuesday to begin budget talks to raise the U.S. government's borrowing limit, as Democrats pressed him t...
Mar 28, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as they depart following the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 17, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
At least 39 die in fire during protest at migrant holding center near U.S. border
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) -At least 39 migrants from Central and South America died after a fire broke out late on Monday at a migrant detention center in the Mexican northern border city of Ciu...
Mar 28, 2023 Mexican authorities and firefighters remove injured migrants, mostly Venezuelans, from inside the National Migration Institute (INM) building during a fire, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 27, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
