Category Archives: Top Stories
UPDATE: UAW prepares Caterpillar workers for potential strike
UPDATED 4:27 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The union representing Caterpillar workers in the Peoria area says they don't want to have to strike, but they want to be ready to do so anyway. United Auto Workers Lo...
Jan 13, 2023 (25 News)
Donald Trump's company sentenced to pay $1.61 million penalty for tax fraud
UPDATED 10:50 A.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York judge on Friday sentenced Donald Trump's namesake real estate company to pay a $1.61 million criminal penalty after it was convicted of scheming to de...
Jan 13, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Commerce, Georgia, U.S. March 26, 2022. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer
Mega Millions jackpot now $1.35 billion
NEW YORK, NY (FOX NEWS) -- Friday night's Mega Millions Jackpot is now a whopping $1.35 billion, making it the fourth-largest lotto ever in U.S. history. Jumbo jackpots have become very common over th...
Jan 13, 2023 Sean Freese / CC
Nine dead, more casualties expected after tornadoes rip through U.S. Southeast
UPDATED 12:37 P.M. ATLANTA (Reuters) -At least nine people died in tornadoes that destroyed homes and knocked out power to tens of thousands in the U.S. Southeast, local officials said on Friday, and ...
Jan 13, 2023 Larry Fondren sorts through the rubble of his mobile home, which was destroyed when a tree fell on it as a tornado heavily damaged homes and destroyed mobile homes near Akron in Hale County, Alabama, U.S. January 12, 2023. Gary Cosby Jr./USA Today Network via REUTERS
Peorian caught beating a dog on camera going to prison
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria man caught on camera beating a dog last July is going to prison, a punishment the sheriff envisioned at the time of the man's arrest. Judge John Vespa sentenced Nicholas Princ...
Jan 13, 2023 (Peoria County Jail)
Sheriffs say they want no role in enforcing state's assault weapon registry
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Dozens of county sheriffs in Illinois - approximately "80-ish," per Illinois Sheriffs' Association head Jim Kaitschuck - say they'll refuse to enforce a pro...
Jan 12, 2023 (State of Illinois)
Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, dies aged 54
UPDATED 8:30 P.M. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Lisa Marie Presley, a musician and the only daughter of rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley, died on Thursday after being rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital,...
Jan 12, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Lisa Marie Presley attends the handprints ceremony for Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough, Finley and Harper Lockwood at TCL Chinese theatre in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 21, 2022. REUTERS/Ringo Chiu/File Photo
Officials: 'Bad batch' of heroin may be in area, donation makes Narcan free to public
UPDATED 6:17 p.m. CREVE COEUR, Ill. - A couple of local police and fire agencies say they've had to respond to a number of drug overdose calls lately. Fire officials in Creve Coeur say over the last t...
Jan 12, 2023 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Man, suspected of recent armed robberies, arrested
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say they have a man in custody who they believe may have committed a number of recent armed robberies in the area. Police say Desmond Turner, 24, was arrested Wednesday ni...
Jan 12, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
PPD's first Anti-Violence Initiative special detail of the year held
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria says the first special detail of the new year that's part of his Anti-Violence initiative is complete. The chief says seven people were arrested Wedn...
Jan 12, 2023 Mercedes Strong (1470 & 100.3/Peoria County Jail)
