Category Archives: Top Stories
Car fire occurs in front of Morton's Grundy School during the end of the school day
MORTON, Ill. - There were no reported injuries after a car fire Tuesday afternoon in front of Morton's Grundy School. In a statement from Morton District 709, the fire occurred just after 2:45 P.M. in...
Dec 02, 2025 (Morton School District Unit 709)
Pritzker signs bill allowing Illinois to issue state-specific vaccine guidelines
Article Summary Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill allowing the Illinois Department of Public Health to issue vaccine guidance independent of federal guidelines. It broadens IDPH's scope to consider the a...
Dec 02, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker signs House Bill 767 at a Dec. 2 news conference in Chicago. He said the bill will protect Illinoisians using science-backed guidelines, rather than “junk science” used by the federal administration under the guidance of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (CNI photo by Maggie Dougherty)
Peoria Fire honors for efforts to install smoke detectors in homes
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Fire Department is celebrating a significant safety milestone. The department was honored Tuesday morning by the Illinois Fire Safety Alliance for installing 1,000 free smoke...
Dec 02, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Washington shooting suspect charged with murder, ordered held in jail
WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The suspect accused of shooting two National Guard members in an ambush in downtown Washington, D.C., last week was charged on Tuesday with murder and other offenses as h...
Dec 02, 2025 A makeshift memorial at the site of a shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2025. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz
Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon
WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, who has cast himself as a relentless foe of illegal drugs, pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, freeing him from a 45-year s...
Dec 02, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Honduras former President Juan Orlando Hernandez is escorted by authorities as he walks towards a plane of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for his extradition to the United States, to face a trial on drug trafficking and arms possession charges, at the Hernan Acosta Mejia Air Force base in Tegucigalpa, Honduras April 21, 2022. REUTERS/Fredy Rodriguez/ File Photo
Residents and their pets rescued from Peoria fire Tuesday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - Faulty electrical equipment appears to be to blame for a fire in Peoria Tuesday morning that caused $25,000 damage and sent one person to the hospital. Battalion Chief Josh Maroney said...
Dec 02, 2025 1470&100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Putin meets Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner in Kremlin to discuss Ukraine peace
MOSCOW, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin met U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner in the Kremlin on Tuesday for talks on a possible ...
Dec 02, 2025 Russian President Vladimir Putin, presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev and foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov attend a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, December 2, 2025. Sputnik/Kristina Kormilitsyna/Pool via REUTERS
Toto's coming back to Peoria in March
PEORIA, Ill. - Get ready to "Hold The Line", because Toto is coming back to the Prairie Home Alliance Theater in the spring. The Peoria Civic Center announces that Toto will take the stage on Thursday...
Dec 02, 2025 Toto returns to the Peoria Civic Center in the Prairie Home Alliance Theater on Thursday, March 12. (Courtesy of Peoria Civic Center)
Illinois' largest indoor farm show gets underway in downtown Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - The Greater Peoria Farm Show is back for its 42nd year at the Peoria Civic Center this week. It's Illinois' largest indoor farm show, with all the latest information in agriculture and ...
Dec 02, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US online sales surge to $44.2 billion during five-day holiday shopping, Adobe Analytics says
Dec 2 (Reuters) - U.S. shoppers spent $14.25 billion on Cyber Monday, pushing total online sales over the Thanksgiving weekend to $44.2 billion, according to an Adobe Analytics report, as consumers la...
Dec 02, 2025 Workers move products during Cyber Monday at Amazon's fulfilment center in Robbinsville, New Jersey, U.S., December 1, 2025. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
