Category Archives: Top Stories
Some U.S. air marshals plan to refuse deployment to U.S.-Mexico border
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than a dozen U.S. air marshals plan to refuse deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a group representing them, a sign of challenges facing U.S. President Joe B...
Dec 02, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Asylum-seeking migrants walk out of the Rio Bravo river after crossing it to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, U.S., as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico November 22, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Biden, Macron vow unity on Ukraine and move to end subsidy tensions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Joe Biden on Thursday used the first state visit of his presidency to demonstrate unity with France's Emmanuel Macron on Ukraine, show willingness to speak to Russia's Vladimir P...
Dec 02, 2022 President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron walk down the Colonnade to the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. Doug Mills/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. appeals court rules against Trump in documents fight, ends special master appointment
UPDATED 5:21 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Thursday dealt a blow to Donald Trump, reversing a judge's appointment of an independent arbiter to vet documents seized by the FBI from...
Dec 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A redacted FBI photograph of documents and classified cover sheets recovered from a container stored in former U.S. president Donald Trump's Florida estate, and which was included in a U.S. Department of Justice filing and released August 30, 2022. U.S. Department of Justice/Handout via REUTERS
Victim in fatal crash near Shoppes at Grand Prairie identified
PEORIA, Ill. - More details are coming out about a fatal accident late Wednesday afternoon not far from the Shoppes at Grand Prairie. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says the victim in the two-veh...
Dec 01, 2022 Midwest Communications
Victim identified in fatal accident near Peoria Civic Center
PEORIA, Ill. - A woman who was hit by an SUV while she tried to cross the street near the Peoria Civic Center likely died instantly. That's according to Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood, who says h...
Dec 01, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Pretrial detention changes to SAFE-T Act will head to governor
UPDATED 6:23 P.M. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Lawmakers on Thursday passed a long-awaited amendment to the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform's provisions that will eliminate cash bail...
Dec 01, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Biden's bid to reinstate student debt plan
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear President Joe Biden's bid to reinstate his plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt after it was blocked by a lower court in a ch...
Dec 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A view of the U.S. Supreme Court building on the first day of the court's new term in Washington, U.S. October 3, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Death investigation underway following grisly discovery
PEORIA, Ill. -- A death investigation is underway after an unresponsive victim was uncovered outside a local bank branch in Peoria County. According to the Peoria County Sheriff's Office, the discover...
Dec 01, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Man pleads not guilty to Peoria Heights arson
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria Heights man is so far pleading not guilty to charges accusing him of setting a home on fire about a month ago. Skylar Walker, 32, entered the plea Thursday at arraignment on a ...
Dec 01, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Banks in Morton, Springfield to merge
MORTON, Ill. - A bank group based in Morton is acquiring a bank group based in Springfield. Morton Community Bank will merge with Marine Bank in the second quarter of next year. The total assets of th...
Dec 01, 2022 (Morton Community Bank/Marine Bank)
