Category Archives: Top Stories
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)
Oath Keepers founder guilty of sedition in U.S. Capitol attack plot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia group, was found guilty on Tuesday of seditious conspiracy for last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol in a failed b...
Nov 29, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Oath Keepers militia founder Stewart Rhodes poses during an interview session in Eureka, Montana, U.S. June 20, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
Biden says inflation is slowing in 'good news for the holiday season'
BAY CITY, Mich. (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday hailed easing prices for gasoline, clothes and appliances as "good news for the holiday season," but said it would take time for inflati...
Nov 29, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden takes questions as he delivers remarks on administration plans to fight inflation and lower costs during a speech in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building's South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 10, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Soccer-U.S. defeat Iran in politically charged World Cup showdown
DOHA (Reuters) -The United States triumphed on the pitch over longtime adversary Iran on Tuesday in a World Cup showdown overshadowed by protests raging in Iran and laced with decades of political ten...
Nov 29, 2022 Soccer Football - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - Group B - Iran v United States - Al Thumama Stadium, Doha, Qatar - November 29, 2022 Iran's Mehdi Taremi in action with Cameron Carter-Vickers of the U.S. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Peoria social-emotional learning program receives criticism over diversity
PEORIA, Ill. -- A newer social-emotional learning program, which was implemented with much fanfare by Peoria Public School leaders, has more recently come under scrutiny over its perceived lack of pro...
Nov 29, 2022 Midwest Communications
Greater Peoria Farm Show underway
PEORIA, Ill. - An annual industry show that's been in Peoria almost as long as the venue it's in, is underway for another year. The Greater Peoria Farm Show is running through Thursday in the Peoria C...
Nov 29, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Kasper: Good news and bad news about 'trifecta' of winter illnesses
PEORIA, Ill. -- This year's so-called 'trifecta' of winter illnesses has doctors concerned, especially as the holiday season begins. Local Infectious Diseases Specialist Dr. Doug Kasper, with the Univ...
Nov 29, 2022 NEC Corporation of America / CC
Cyber Monday sets sales record as shoppers splurge on toys, electronics- report
(Reuters) - Discount-hunting shoppers snapped up more Pokemon cards, TVs and air fryers on Cyber Monday, pushing sales to $11.3 billion, making it the biggest U.S. online shopping day in history, acco...
Nov 29, 2022 Workers select and pack items during Cyber Monday at the Amazon fulfilment centre in Robbinsville Township in New Jersey, U.S., November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
U.S. Supreme Court to hear fight over Biden immigration enforcement policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to consider whether President Joe Biden's administration can implement guidelines - challenged by two conservative-leaning states - shif...
Nov 29, 2022 A migrant who was previously detained gets his legcuffs removed by a transport agent, to then be escorted to Mexico by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, in Laredo, Texas, U.S. June 15, 2022. Picture taken June 15, 2022. REUTERS/Veronica G. Cardenas
