Category Archives: Top Stories
Taiwan reports China's largest incursion yet to air defense zone
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Seventy-one Chinese air force aircraft including fighter jets and drones entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone in the past 24 hours, the island's government said on Monda...
Dec 26, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Chinese and Taiwanese flags are seen in this illustration, August 6, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
White House assails Texas Governor Abbott over Christmas Eve migrant drop
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Monday accused Texas Governor Greg Abbott of endangering lives after busloads of migrants from the southwest border in Texas were dropped near Vice President K...
Dec 26, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A migrant girl holds a Christmas present, as she queues with her family near the border wall to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, U.S., seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico December 25, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Bustos: $66 million in projects funded in 17th District in omnibus spending bill
EAST MOLINE, Ill. - Outgoing 17th District Rep. Cheri Bustos says her last vote in Congress was for the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill. Bustos, in a recent virtual news conference, says that incl...
Dec 26, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Illinois American Water: Glasford will experience interruption of service
PEORIA, Ill. -- Illinois American Water will be completing a critical project in Glasford this week that will require a temporary interruption in water service on Wednesday. The utility says bottled w...
Dec 26, 2022 Illinois American Water
Updated: Deadly blizzard, deemed worst in 45 years, paralyzes greater Buffalo, N.Y
(Reuters) - A powerful blizzard that paralyzed western New York over Christmas weekend has killed at least 25 people, Erie county officials said on Monday, as road and utility crews faced a long day o...
Dec 26, 2022 Snow plows clear the roads following a winter storm that hit the Buffalo region in Lancaster, New York, U.S., December 25, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Christmas tree recycling options in Central IL
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. -- You may be wondering what to do with your live Christmas tree after the holidays. Residents of Tazewell County can bring their trees to a number of drop off points December 26...
Dec 26, 2022 Kevin Krejci / CC
Migrants dropped outside VP Harris's home on blustery Christmas Eve
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Busloads of migrants were dropped over Christmas weekend near Vice President Kamala Harris' residence in Washington amid freezing temperatures, having traveled from the southwes...
Dec 26, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris participates in a working lunch on multilateral cooperation during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, in Washington, U.S., December 15, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
The pandemic ushered in a new era of emergency housing, but it now faces a fiscal cliff
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - For Illinois' homeless populations and those that serve them, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a crisis - the volunteer, mostly faith-based shelters that h...
Dec 24, 2022 Downtowngal, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
State: 88 counties now have elevated COVID transmission levels
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Two more Illinois counties are once again on the list of counties with elevated levels of COVID-19 transmission. That's according to the Illinois Department of Public Health and Ce...
Dec 24, 2022 (Centers for Disease Control)
Manier could run for state legislative seat
WASHINGTON, Ill. - The Mayor of Washington is strongly considering throwing his hat into the ring for another state legislative seat that is in Republican hands because of the incumbent's resignation....
Dec 24, 2022 (File-Julia Bradley/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
