Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria-area gas prices increase slightly
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria-area gas prices are slowly trickling up. GasBuddy reports that the average price of a gallon of unleaded in the area is around $3.65. The average is 2.4 cents higher than last we...
Mar 27, 2023 Orin Zebest / CC
Washington mayor discusses Mississippi's recovery process
WASHINGTON, Ill. -- Having gone through an EF-4 tornado on Nov. 17, 2013, Washington, Illinois Mayor Gary Manier knows the recovery process for Mississippi and Alabama will be long after deadly tornad...
Mar 27, 2023 (File-Julia Bradley/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US House speaker says lawmakers to move forward with TikTok bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Sunday lawmakers will move forward with legislation to address national security worries about TikTok, alleging Chin...
Mar 27, 2023 TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing entitled "TikTok: How Congress can Safeguard American Data Privacy and Protect Children from Online Harms," as lawmakers scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 23, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
First Citizens agrees to acquire failed Silicon Valley Bank
(Reuters) - First Citizens BancShares Inc said on Monday it would acquire the deposits and loans of failed Silicon Valley Bank, closing one chapter in the crisis of confidence that has ripped through ...
Mar 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: First Citizens BancShares and SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) logos are seen in this illustration taken March 19, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Arrest made in fatal WIU off-campus party shooting
MACOMB, Ill. - Police in Macomb say they've made one arrest in connection with a shooting during an early Saturday party at off-campus housing connected to Western Illinois University. Macomb Police s...
Mar 26, 2023 Midwest Communications
Remembering Tessa Sutton
DUNLAP, Ill. - You might say it was a difficult week this past week for local sports -- or, more specifically, those who followed and loved their student athletes. Drew Fehr and Dylan Bazzell -- Prair...
Mar 26, 2023 (Facebook/Team Tessa - #StrongerTogether)
Indoor vaping, cat declawing could be banned under recently passed bills
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Senate passed 68 bills this week while the House had advanced 284 as of Friday morning with hundreds more to go before their adjournment for th...
Mar 26, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Community honors students who died a week ago in Colorado accident
FAIRBURY, Ill. - A community in Livingston County is showing its support by the hundreds for two student athletes who died a week ago Sunday after a sledding accident in Colorado. A candlelight vigil ...
Mar 26, 2023 (25 News)
Russia's nuclear rhetoric is dangerous and irresponsible, NATO says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO on Sunday criticised Russia for its "dangerous and irresponsible" nuclear rhetoric, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia would station tactical nuclear we...
Mar 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a joint statement with Chinese President Xi Jinping following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 21, 2023. Sputnik/Vladimir Astapkovich/Kremlin via REUTERS
Arson causes damage to South Peoria home
PEORIA, Ill. - Another Peoria home has suffered damage from a fire ruled to be arson. This one happened early Sunday morning near Westmoreland and Krause in South Peoria. Crews say when they arrived a...
Mar 26, 2023 Midwest Communications
