Category Archives: Top Stories
Updated COVID vaccines prevented illness from latest variants -CDC
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE's and Moderna's updated bivalent COVID-19 vaccines helped prevent symptomatic infections from the XBB-related subvariants of Omicron, according to an analysis from t...
Jan 25, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Sean Bagley, 14, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub variants at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 8, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier
NWS: At least five inches of snow in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - You may or may not believe this, but Peoria has already received more snow than forecast -- even if it may not look like it. The National Weather Service's recorded snow total for Peori...
Jan 25, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
U.S., Germany to send scores of tanks to help Ukraine fight Russian invasion
BERLIN/KYIV (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it would supply Ukraine with 31 of its most advanced battle tanks after Germany broke a taboo with a similar announcement, moves hailed by K...
Jan 25, 2023 FILE PHOTO: NATO enhanced Forward Presence battle group Spanish army tank Leopard 2 fires during the final phase of the Silver Arrow 2022 military drill on Adazi military training grounds, Latvia September 29, 2022. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo
UPDATE: Person in custody in Planned Parenthood arson investigation, formally charged by feds
UPDATED 2:11 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A suspect is now in custody for a recent fire at Planned Parenthood of Peoria. Tyler Massengill, 32, of Chillicothe, was arrested Tuesday by Peoria Police. He was char...
Jan 25, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria Council approves funding for Harrison School demolition and sewer project
PEORIA, Ill. -- All that will remain of Peoria's old Harrison School will be the memories after the Peoria City Council Tuesday night hired a contractor to demolish the building. The city chose Green ...
Jan 25, 2023 (File-City of Peoria via Facebook)
Charging decision in Trump election case 'imminent,' Georgia prosecutor says
(Reuters) -A Georgia prosecutor investigating Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his defeat in the state's 2020 presidential election told a judge on Tuesday that decisions on whether to bring crimina...
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/File Photo
NRA sues Illinois over assault weapons ban
FAIRFAX, Va. - The National Rifle Association said it would see the State of Illinois in court over the state's new but on hold assault weapons ban, and it is. The NRA, whom Governor JB Pritzker has c...
Jan 24, 2023 (National Rifle Association)
McConnell: U.S. debt limit solution must come from Biden, McCarthy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Any agreement to address the U.S. debt ceiling and avoid a first-ever default by Washington will have to come from President Joe Biden and House of Representatives Speaker Kevin...
Jan 24, 2023 U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during an event to tout the new Brent Spence Bridge over the Ohio River between Covington, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio near the bridge in Covington, Kentucky, U.S., January 4, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Winter storm brings snow, but not much to the Peoria area
PEORIA, Ill. - A winter storm has brought snow, but you may not really see much of it here in the Peoria area. The National Weather Service is calling for another inch of snow in the Peoria area throu...
Jan 24, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Man charged by grand jury with seriously injuring baby
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has indicted a Hanna City man for allegedly assaulting a baby earlier this month. The grand jury is charging Alexander King, 21, with Aggravated Battery, a Cl...
Jan 24, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
