Category Archives: Top Stories
Pritzker: Changes to Safe-T Act could come before veto session ends
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. J-B Pritzker is hopeful that state lawmakers will be able to make some tweaks to the Safe-T Act during this week's fall veto session. The session is set to end on Th...
Nov 30, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
U.S. House Democrats elect Hakeem Jeffries as first Black party leader
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hakeem Jeffries was elected on Wednesday to become the Democratic Party's top leader in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in January, making him the first Black Americ...
Nov 30, 2022 U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jefferies (D-NY) walks on the day of House Democratic leadership elections on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Michael A. McCoy
U.S. Senate passes same-sex marriage protection bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would protect federal recognition of same-sex marriage, a measure taken up in response to worries the Supreme Court could overturn ...
Nov 30, 2022 Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) speaks alongside Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) during a news conference on the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 29, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger
The U.S. to grant $53 million to Ukraine for power transmission
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday announced $53 million to support the purchase of power grid equipment to Ukraine to help Kyiv fight Russian attacks targeting its energy infrastructu...
Nov 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman with a dog waits for a bus in a street without electricity after critical civil infrastructure was hit by Russian missile attacks, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 23, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
'End of an era': Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin dies at 96
BEIJING (Reuters) - Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who led the country for a decade of rapid economic growth after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, died on Wednesday at the age of 96, Chinese s...
Nov 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: China's President Jiang Zemin gestures during his press conference in Beijing, China, September 2, 1994. REUTERS/Will Burgess/File Photo
Crash near Morton leaves one dead
MORTON, Ill. -- The Tazewell County Sheriff's Office confirms one person died in a two-vehicle crash that happened about three miles east of Morton at Harding Road and the Morton-Washington Blacktop T...
Nov 30, 2022 (25 News)
Two arrested for catalytic converter thefts from local car dealership
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peoria men are under arrest after police say they were caught cutting catalytic converters off cars at a local dealership. Both Charles Foster, 44, and Derrick Kline, 30, face at le...
Nov 29, 2022 Charles Foster (left), and Derrick Kline (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Will Smith on slapping Chris Rock at Oscars: 'I lost it'
(Reuters) - Actor Will Smith addressed the shocking moment he slapped and shouted a vulgarity at comedian Chris Rock for joking about his wife's hairstyle at this year's Oscars, saying "I lost it" and...
Nov 29, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Will Smith hits Chris Rock onstage during the 94th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 27, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Lawmakers announce bipartisan plan to pay down remaining unemployment debt
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Lawmakers on Tuesday announced a bipartisan plan to use state revenues to pay down the remaining $1.4 billion in debt taken on by the state's Unemployment I...
Nov 29, 2022 Gov. JB Pritzker announces a plan in his Capitol office Tuesday to pay down the state's remaining Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund debt. He was joined by lawmakers of both parties, including Republican Reps. Mike Marron and Dan Ugaste, both pictured. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Grand Jury indicts Peoria man in connection with October shooting
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has been indicted by a county grand jury on three felony charges following a shooting incident almost two months ago. The grand jury filed counts of Aggravated Discharge of...
Nov 29, 2022 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
