Category Archives: Top Stories
861 area code to be issued starting next week
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Central Illinois residents will be seeing a new area code on local calls in the near future. The Illinois Commerce Commission says that starting on February 24th, new phone numbers...
Feb 17, 2023 Leonid Mamchenkov / CC
Man pleads guilty to causing Planned Parenthood explosion
PEORIA, Ill. - A Chillicothe man did something suspects rarely do at an arraignment hearing: plead guilty. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Tyler Massengill, 32, pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting t...
Feb 17, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
U.S. military completes recovery of Chinese balloon downed off South Carolina
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military said on Friday it had successfully concluded recovery efforts off South Carolina for a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by a U.S. fighter jet, a...
Feb 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Sailors assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 prepare material recovered in the Atlantic Ocean from a high-altitude Chinese balloon shot down by the U.S. Air Force off the coast of South Carolina for transport to federal agents at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek on February, 7, 2023 in this image released by the U.S. Navy in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2023. Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan Seelbach/U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS
Five former Memphis officers plead not guilty in death of Tyre Nichols
UPDATED 3:18 p.m. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) - Five former Memphis police officers on Friday pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges stemming from last month's beating of Tyre Nicho...
Feb 17, 2023 Five former Memphis police officers who have been charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols appear during an arraignment hearing at Shelby County courthouse in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S., February 17, 2023. REUTERS/Karen Pulfer Focht
Biden, 80, is healthy, 'fit for duty,' doctor says after physical
BETHESDA, Md. (Reuters) -Doctors declared U.S. President Joe Biden, 80, healthy and "fit for duty" on Thursday after a physical examination that included removing a lesion from his chest and declaring...
Feb 17, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the IBEW Local 26 in Lanham, Maryland, U.S., February 15, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Two more people rescued in Turkey 11 days after earthquake
KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey (Reuters) -Two more people were pulled alive from the rubble in Turkey on Friday, 11 days after an earthquake that has killed more than 43,000 in the country and Syria, as aid ag...
Feb 17, 2023 Turkish serviceman walks along a street with two women in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Antakya, Turkey February 16, 2023. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Woman pleads guilty to fatal 2021 West Peoria crash
PEORIA, Ill. - A Washington woman has pleaded guilty to her role in an accident that claimed the life of a man on a motorized bicycle almost two years ago. Peoria County Court records indicate Destine...
Feb 16, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail May 2020)
Man enters plea in fatal January crash
PEORIA, Ill. - A Hanna City man has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of causing a fatal accident near the Shoppes at Grand Prairie last month. Jeremy Perry, 43, was arraigned Thursday after ...
Feb 16, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria Police conduct another special enforcement detail
PEORIA, Ill. - Eight more people were taken into custody because of another special enforcement detail conducted by Peoria Police that's a part of the police chief's anti-violence initiative. Chief Er...
Feb 16, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Pritzker hits the road to sell his budget plan
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - One day after delivering his budget address, Gov. JB Pritzker took to the road Thursday to rally support for his proposed "Smart Start" program to expand ac...
Feb 16, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at a preschool in Springfield in favor of his budget proposal to increase early childhood education program spending by $250 million. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
