Category Archives: Top Stories
Update: Russian missile and drone attacks kill at least 11 - Ukraine
KYIV (Reuters) - Russia pounded Ukraine with missiles and drones in waves of attacks on Thursday, killing at least 11 people, damaging dozens of buildings and energy facilities in an array of regions,...
Jan 26, 2023 Local residents remove debris from a house of their neighbour damaged by a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Hlevakha, outside Kyiv, Ukraine January 26, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Biden to attack House Republicans in economic speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will use a speech at a steamfitters union hall on Thursday to launch an attack against Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives, saying that...
Jan 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about continued U.S. support for Ukraine in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
State makes last federal COVID loan payment early
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A $4.5 billion federal loan that helped the state get through the COVID-19 pandemic is officially paid back. The loan, according to the Governor's office and Comptroller Susana Men...
Jan 25, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois Comptroller's Office)
Meta to restore Donald Trump's Facebook, Instagram accounts
(Reuters) - Meta Platforms Inc said on Wednesday it will restore former U.S. President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after the dea...
Jan 25, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump announces that he will once again run for U.S. president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election during an event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
No PPS educators at music education conference in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - It's being held right in the Peoria Public School District's back yard; but, a big conference going on won't have any District 150 representation. The Illinois Music Education Associati...
Jan 25, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Suspect in Half Moon Bay shooting rampage appears in California court
UPDATED 3:46 P.M. REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Reuters) -A California farm worker accused of shooting seven people to death near San Francisco, some of them his co-workers, made his first court appearance on...
Jan 25, 2023 Half Moon Bay resident Elisabeth Olander, 68, reacts at a memorial for shooting victims at Mac Dutra Park in Half Moon Bay, California, U.S., January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Fred Greaves
Anti-violence initiative detail results in nine arrests
PEORIA, Ill. - 52 traffic stops, and nine arrests. That's the short version of results from Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria's latest special patrol as part of his ongoing anti-violence initiative....
Jan 25, 2023 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Chicago high-rise fire leaves one dead, eight injured
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A fast-moving fire on Wednesday spread to nine floors of a high-rise apartment building on Chicago's South Side, killing one person and injuring eight, including a firefighter, off...
Jan 25, 2023 Fire rages in a high-rise apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, U.S., January 25, 2023, in this still image obtained from a social media video. Chicago Fire Department/via REUTERS
Man, indicted for murder, now charged in third separate case
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man charged with one of the city's homicides from last year, has been indicted by a grand jury for the third time in the last month on separate cases. This time, a grand jury T...
Jan 25, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail January 2022)
Donated Chillicothe fire truck arrives in Ukraine
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - Chillicothe's support for Ukraine in its battle against Russia is now officially on the ground. The town's fire department in October sent one of its fire trucks loaded with equipm...
Jan 25, 2023 (Chillicothe Fire Protection District via Facebook)
