Category Archives: Top Stories
Collins: Threat of severe weather Wednesday
PEORIA, Ill. -- The calendar may say it's still winter, but there's a chance of spring-like thunderstorms on Wednesday in Central Illinois. "We could see a couple of isolated severe cells after lunch ...
Feb 22, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Grand jury makes indictments in several local cases
PEORIA, Ill. - A grand jury in Peoria County filed charges in a number of cases during their weekly meeting Tuesday. The grand jury charged Val Burks (pictured above), 30, three times with Falsely Mak...
Feb 21, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Pritzker promotes early childhood education proposal in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker makes a return trip to Peoria -- this time to talk about one of the key proposals he made in his budget address last week. Pritzker used Valeska Hinton Early Childh...
Feb 21, 2023 (State of Illinois)
Woman accused of sending illegal drugs to prisons
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - A Central Illinois woman is jailed after being accused of sending drugs to jail inmates. Police in Bloomington say Sandra Lewis, 77, was arrested on Friday, charged with Manufactur...
Feb 21, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Bloomington Police)
UPDATE: Biden administration unveils broad asylum restrictions at U.S.-Mexico border
UPDATED 5:29 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States could bar tens of thousands of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border from claiming asylum under a proposal unveiled on Tuesday that woul...
Feb 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Migrants under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program stand at the Lerdo-Stanton International Bridge after being returned from the U.S. to Mexico to continue their asylum application, in this picture taken from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, June 30, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Wall St tumbles as Walmart, Home Depot forecasts disappoint
(Reuters) - Wall Street's main stock indexes fell more than 1% on Tuesday as gloomy forecasts from retailers Home Depot and Walmart added to worries that a sharp rise in interest rates and high inflat...
Feb 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., February 17, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
U.S. orders Norfolk Southern to clean polluted Ohio derailment site
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Tuesday ordered rail operator Norfolk Southern to clean up contaminated soil and water at the site of a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and to a...
Feb 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Signage is seen at the headquarters of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 10, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Biden says 'Kyiv stands strong' a year after Russia invaded Ukraine
WARSAW (Reuters) - Fresh from an unannounced visit to Ukraine, President Joe Biden rallied NATO allies in Poland on Tuesday, proclaiming "unwavering" support for Kyiv and a commitment to bolstering th...
Feb 21, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks ahead of the one year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, outside the Royal Castle, in Warsaw, Poland, February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
U.S. home sales post 12th straight monthly decline; house price inflation cools
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. existing home sales dropped to the lowest level in more than 12 years in January, but the pace of decline slowed, raising cautious optimism that the housing market slump cou...
Feb 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A "For Rent, For Sale" sign is seen outside of a home in Washington, U.S., July 7, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger
One killed, a dozen injured after blast at Ohio factory scatters molten debris, starts fire
(Reuters) -An explosion tore through an Ohio metals plant on Monday, scattering molten metal and debris that rained down on neighboring buildings, killing one person and injuring at least a dozen othe...
Feb 21, 2023 Firefighters stand around the rubble at the I. Schumann & Co. metals plant after an explosion at the factory in Bedford, Ohio, U.S., February 20, 2023. REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk
