Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria County Grand Jury files indictments
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury met Tuesday, and charged people in several cases. Among the more significant ones: Robert Arnold (pictured above), 69, Elmwood, was charged with Aggravated Cr...
Mar 07, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
China warns U.S. to stop suppression or risk 'conflict'
BEIJING (Reuters) -The United States should change its "distorted" attitude towards China or "conflict and confrontation" will follow, China's foreign minister said on Tuesday, while defending its sta...
Mar 07, 2023 Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang attends a news conference on the sidelines of the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, China March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
New event comes to Peoria Riverfront in June
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Park District is hosting a new event that aims to bring a bigger city experience to local residents and tourists. Park-a-Palooza will take place on the Peoria Riverfront from...
Mar 07, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
Investigators want help solving 2016 cold case
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins says a homicide from more than six years ago remains unsolved, and detectives need help solving it. Watkins says a skull washed up on the shore of th...
Mar 07, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriffs Department)
Teen arrested after Peoria shooting
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police say a teenager is in custody after 71 rounds were fired in a neighborhood Monday afternoon. Public Information Officer Semone Roth says just after 1:30 p.m., officers res...
Mar 07, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Fed's Powell opens the door to higher and possibly faster rate hikes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve will likely need to raise interest rates more than expected in response to recent strong data and is prepared to move in larger steps if the "totality" of in...
Mar 07, 2023 Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell takes his seat to testify before a U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Two of four Americans kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico found dead
UPDATED 7:21 A.M. MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) -Two of four Americans kidnapped by gunmen on Friday just after they drove into northeastern Mexico have been found dead, U.S. and Mexican officials said ...
Mar 07, 2023 Forensic technicians work at the scene where authorities found the bodies of two of four Americans kidnapped by gunmen, in Matamoros, Mexico March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
White House may restart detention of migrant families - sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is considering restarting the detention of migrant families caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, four current and former U.S. officials told Reuters, which wo...
Mar 07, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Migrants who are seeking asylum in the United States rest as they wait at a makeshift encampment near the border between the U.S. and Mexico, in Matamoros, Mexico, December 29, 2022. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
Biden to tax high-earners to save Medicare
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will propose raising the Medicare tax on high earners to help keep the federal insurance program solvent as part of his budget to be released on Thursday, the Whit...
Mar 07, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the DNC 2023 Winter Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., February 3, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
UPDATE: Fire near downtown Peoria investigated as 'suspected arson'
UPDATED 12:05 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called around 9:45 p.m. Monday to a fire near the corner of NE Monroe and Morgan Streets. Crews found heavy smoke and flames coming from a t...
Mar 07, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
