Category Archives: Top Stories
Biden plans Nashville visit after 'sick' school shooting
DURHAM, North Carolina (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned a "sick" epidemic of gun violence against children, one day after a school shooting left three students and three adult staff...
Mar 28, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden walks to Marine One to board for travel to North Carolina from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 28, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Body found in storage locker last October positively identified
KNOX COUNTY, Ill. - New details are available about a dead body that was found last October inside a storage unit in rural Knox County. The Knox County Sheriffs Department says they've received word t...
Mar 28, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Knox County Jail)
Traffic stop leads to weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is behind bars after a loaded handgun was allegedly found inside his car Tuesday morning. Peoria Police say Laderrius Williams, 32 -- who allegedly had a revoked drivers li...
Mar 28, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Man faces weapons charge after traffic stop, released from custody
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man faces charges after a gun was allegedly found in his vehicle early Friday. Peoria Police released details of the arrest four days later, which was during a traffic stop on ...
Mar 28, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Grand jury indicts woman on murder charge
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has indicted a woman for the suspected stabbing death of her boyfriend. The grand jury Tuesday formally charged Heaven Kruzan, 22, with First-Degree Murder. K...
Mar 28, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Pence must testify in Jan. 6 attack probe, judge rules -reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge has ruled that former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence must testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with former President Donald Trump leading up to Janu...
Mar 28, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. former 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
U.S. charges FTX's Bankman-Fried with paying $40 million Chinese bribe
NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, accusing the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange of paying a $40 million bribe ...
Mar 28, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, departs from his court hearing at Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. January 3, 2023. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado
US consumer confidence rises; house price inflation slows
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence unexpectedly increased in March, but Americans are becoming a bit anxious about the labor market and expect inflation to remain elevated over the next y...
Mar 28, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A family shops at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Springdale, Arkansas June 4, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo
Former Rep. Kinzinger makes donation to Pekin's Dirksen Congressional Center
PEKIN, Ill. - A now-former U.S. Representative who received a lot of criticism his last few years in office for taking former President Donald Trump to task is helping a Tazewell County-based entity. ...
Mar 28, 2023 Hudson Institute / CC
Walgreens plans no further wage hikes for pharmacists as shortage eases
(Reuters) - Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc said on Tuesday it does not plan to increase wages further, as a shortage of pharmacists eases after the company doubled down on hiring and pay raises last yea...
Mar 28, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Signage is seen outside of a Walgreens, owned by the Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 26, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
