Category Archives: Top Stories
Man pleads not guilty to Bartonville attempted murder
PEORIA, Ill. - A Washington man is being arraigned on charges accusing him of assaulting a family member is pleading not guilty. Austin Ricca, 27, appeared in Peoria County Court Thursday, after a gra...
Jan 05, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Man pleads not guilty to Labor Day weekend homicide
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man facing a host of charges in a host of cases is pleading not guilty to the city's 17th homicide of last year. Court records indicate Domonicue Linwood, 24, made the plea Thu...
Jan 05, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail January 2022)
Supreme Court sets March timeline for oral arguments in cash bail appeal
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - An appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of a state law that would end cash bail appears to be at least two months away from ...
Jan 05, 2023 (Illinois Supreme Court)
Pritzker: Progress made toward assault weapons ban
CHATHAM, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says while time is running out during the lame duck legislation session going on now in Springfield, there is still time to get a ban on assault weapons d...
Jan 05, 2023 (State of Illinois)
Biden lays out new immigration curbs on U.S.-Mexico border
UPDATED 1:34 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will use Trump-era restrictions to rapidly expel Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Pres...
Jan 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to the news media before boarding Marine One for travel to Kentucky from the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, U.S., January 4, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Masked man walked past Idaho victims' roommate on night of murders -court document
(Reuters) -A woman who lived at the house where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in November told investigators she was awakened on the night of the murders by the sound of some...
Jan 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students, is escorted to an extradition hearing at the Monroe County Courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., January 3, 2023. Matt Rourke/Pool via REUTERS
Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs as layoffs expand in tech sector
(Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc's layoffs will now include more than 18,000 roles as part of a workforce reduction it previously disclosed, Chief Executive Andy Jassy said in a public staff note on Wednesda...
Jan 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: The Amazon logo is displayed on a sign outside the company's LDJ5 sortation center in the Staten Island borough of New York City, U.S. April 25, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid./File Photo/File Photo
Bed Bath & Beyond exploring options including bankruptcy, shares crater
(Reuters) -Bed Bath & Beyond Inc on Thursday said it was exploring options including a bankruptcy filing to address the U.S. home goods retailer's plunging sales, dwindling cash and debt load, sen...
Jan 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A shopping cart is seen at a Bed Bath & Beyond store in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., June 29, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
As U.S. House speaker fight drags on, Republican holdout votes for Trump
UPDATED 12:52 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A day after Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives rejected Donald Trump's plea to support Kevin McCarthy's campaign for speaker, one of McCarthy's ...
Jan 05, 2023 Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) casts his vote for Speaker of the House for former U.S. President Donald Trump as he stands next to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) during a 7th round of voting for Speaker of the House on the third day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Cloyd wins reinstatement to Pekin mayoral election ballot
UPDATED 1:50 P.M. PEKIN, Ill. - Becky Cloyd apparently will be on the April election ballot after all. The Pekin City Council member, according to a statement from her campaign, won her bid in Tazewel...
Jan 05, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Becky Cloyd via Facebook)
