Category Archives: Top Stories
UPDATE: Actor Lance Reddick of 'The Wire' dead at age 60
UPDATED 5:04 p.m. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Lance Reddick, best known for his role as a no-nonsense police chief on the acclaimed television series "The Wire" and for his work in the "John Wick" a...
Mar 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Actor Lance Reddick arrives at the 46th NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, California February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn
City officials concerned with number of recent arson fires
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria officials are expressing at least some concern about what may seem to be a growing number of a specific type of fires in the city. In the last month, at least six fires in differ...
Mar 17, 2023 Midwest Communications
A transformed US Supreme Court pays tribute to Justice Ginsburg
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Judges, scholars, lawyers, government officials and current U.S. Supreme Court members paid tribute to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday, honoring a liberal stalwar...
Mar 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivers remarks during a discussion hosted by the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 12, 2019. REUTERS/Sarah Silbige
Crowds fill downtown Peoria for annual St. Patrick's Day Parade
PEORIA, Ill. - Irish spirits were high at Peoria's St. Patrick's Day Parade on Friday. Parade-goers braved wind chills in the teens to pack the streets of downtown Peoria to celebrate the holiday. Par...
Mar 17, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Woman arrested on weapons charge after traffic stop
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria woman faces felony charges after a gun was allegedly found inside her vehicle. Police say Adria Williams, 27, was taken to jail on a warrant, along with traffic violations and ...
Mar 17, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Biden, Irish leader Varadkar discuss post-Brexit deal at White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar expressed support for a UK-EU deal on post-Brexit trade rules as the two leaders met at the White House on Friday....
Mar 17, 2023 Ireland's Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Leo Varadkar speaks as he meets with U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 17, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
IL House passes bill banning cat declawing
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois House has approved of a bill that would ban cat declawing in the State of Illinois. Declawing would be outlawed, except for certain medical reasons. The bill's sponsor...
Mar 17, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
ICC judges issue arrest warrant for Putin over war crimes in Ukraine
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Friday against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being responsible for the war crime of illegal ...
Mar 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the collegium of the Prosecutor General's office in Moscow, Russia, March 15, 2023. Sputnik/Pavel Bednyakov/Pool via REUTERS
Wiretaps show Madigan, through McClain, forced ally out of legislature to protect himself
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - In fall 2018, longtime former State Rep. Lou Lang, D-Skokie, received a phone call from Mike McClain, who had spent decades lobbying for electric utility Common...
Mar 17, 2023 Ex-lobbyist Mike McClain is pictured in his driver's license photo, which was submitted as evidence in his federal court trial this week in a case where he and three others allegedly bribed former House Speaker Michael Madigan (right) with jobs and contracts for the speaker’s political allies in exchange for legislation favorable to electric utility Commonwealth Edison. (Madigan photo and illustration by Jerry Nowicki; McClain photo obtained from trial exhibit)
Sheriffs deputies rescue two from Fulton County fire
LEWISTOWN, Ill. - Fulton County Sheriffs Deputies rescued two people from a burning home early Friday morning. The Sheriffs Department says fire broke out around 4:30 a.m. at a home on East Sunnyland ...
Mar 17, 2023 D4E / CC
