Category Archives: Top Stories
China's Xi to visit Moscow next week after US-Russia clash over Ukraine
BEIJING/NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia next week, officials from both countries said on Friday, weighing into the Ukraine conflict just as relations be...
Mar 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China February 4, 2022. Sputnik/Aleksey Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS
YouTube restores Donald Trump's channel
(Reuters) -Alphabet Inc-owned YouTube said on Tuesday it lifted restrictions on former U.S. President Donald Trump's channel, following a more than two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill ri...
Mar 17, 2023 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
Sanofi to cut US price of its most-prescribed insulin by 78%
(Reuters) -Sanofi SA said on Thursday it will cut U.S. list prices for its most-prescribed insulin product, Lantus, by 78% starting next year after similar moves by rivals Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly a...
Mar 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A pharmacist holds a box of the drug Lantus SoloStar, made by Sanofi Pharmaceutical, at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S. January 9, 2020. REUTERS/George Frey/File Photo
FDA advisers back Pfizer's COVID treatment for full approval
(Reuters) -Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday overwhelmingly backed full approval of Pfizer's oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid for adults at high risk of progressi...
Mar 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The Pfizer logo is pictured on their headquarters building in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/
Fire Department and Red Cross provide free smoke detectors
PEORIA, Ill. - Some Peoria residents got something that local officials argue they desperately needed Thursday, thanks to the Peoria Fire Department and the American Red Cross. Volunteers Thursday too...
Mar 16, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Juveniles among those arrested during latest Anti-Violence Initiative detail
PEORIA, Ill. - "Please know where your children are at all times!" That's the message from Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria, after juveniles are suspected of committing crimes during what turned ou...
Mar 16, 2023 (File-1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol)
Murder charges dropped after dead body was found in storage locker
GALESBURG, Ill. - A rural Knox County woman no longer faces murder charges after a dead body was found inside a storage locker last October. A Knox County judge Thursday dismissed the four most seriou...
Mar 16, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Knox County Jail)
Bill in State House to make it easier to test for fentanyl
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A bill making its way through the Illinois House is aimed at making it easier to detect fentanyl. The bill would allow for fentanyl test strips be sold over-the-counter by pharmaci...
Mar 16, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Tazewell Co. Republican Party)
Officials concerned about animal tranquilizer being used with Fentanyl in overdose cases
PEORIA, Ill. - There's a newer component of overdose deaths locally involving fentanyl. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says the animal tranquilizer "Xylazine" was linked to more than 40 percent o...
Mar 16, 2023 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Robotics competition to take place at Bradley this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - Warriors made of steel and wires will battle at Bradley University's Renaissance Coliseum this weekend. The university is hosting the FIRST Robotics Central Illinois Regional Competitio...
Mar 16, 2023 (Bradley University)
