Category Archives: Top Stories
Gobble, gobble, gulp! Food prices put the bite on U.S. Thanksgiving feast
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sticker shock: The Thanksgiving holiday, a time when families and friends typically celebrate with groaning sideboards, a stuffed turkey, and a more-is-better-than-less attitude...
Nov 24, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Frozen turkeys are pictured in a freezer case in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 19, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
House fire overnight in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria crews responded to reports of a deck fire around 12:20 a.m. Thursday in area of W. Larchmont and N. Walround Lanes. Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Thomas Sander said flames could b...
Nov 24, 2022 liz west / CC
Residents favor on-site cannabis consumption; Peoria City Council doesn't
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City Council, now officially has on first reading, proposed changes to an ordinance on how cannabis businesses can operate in the city. There are a number of proposals includ...
Nov 23, 2022 Elsa Olofsson / CC
Battered Colorado Springs shooting suspect appears in wheelchair at hearing
UPDATED 6:56 P.M. DENVER (Reuters) -The suspect in a mass shooting that killed five people and wounded 17 at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub appeared in a court hearing on Wednesday with obvious fa...
Nov 23, 2022 Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, the suspect in the mass shooting that killed five people and wounded 17 at an LGBTQ nightclub appears showing facial injuries in police booking photographs released in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. November 23, 2022. Colorado Springs Police Department /Handout via REUTERS
OSF to give employees pay raises
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria-based OSF HealthCare is giving everyone a raise. OSF says its minimum wage will go from $15 an hour, to $16, effective Sunday, with that going up to just over $18 in the Chicago ...
Nov 23, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
State and Peoria unemployment decline, jobs added
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Job additions and unemployment rates continue to improve across Illinois, although the unemployment rate is only dropping slightly. The Illinois Department of Employment Security a...
Nov 23, 2022 Midwest Communications
Colorado Springs shooting suspect appears in hearing with facial injuries
DENVER (Reuters) -The suspect in the mass shooting that killed five people and wounded 17 at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub appeared before a judge in a video link from jail on Wednesday, slumped ...
Nov 23, 2022 Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, the suspect in the mass shooting that killed five people and wounded 17 at an LGBTQ nightclub appears with state public defenders Joseph Archambault and Michael Bowman before a judge during his advisement hearing in a video link from jail, slumped to the side and in a wheelchair and showing facial injuries in a still image from video in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. November 23, 2022. El Paso County Court/Handout via REUTERS
Walmart Chesapeake shooting: Manager kills 6 fellow workers and himself
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Reuters) - A manager at a Walmart Inc. store in Virginia entered a break room and opened fire on fellow employees before turning the gun on himself, an eyewitness said on Wednesday, l...
Nov 23, 2022 Police officers stand in the parking lot after a mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, U.S. November 23, 2022. REUTERS/Jay Paul
Peoria High Lions football team gives thanks ahead of state championship game
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria community is giving thanks...for a winning football team. at the (Louisville) Slugger Dome. We've practiced at East Side Center. We'll finish here, then we'll practice on Cha...
Nov 23, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Washington boil order lifted
WASHINGTON, Ill. -- The City of Washington Wednesday morning lifted a boil order that's been in place since Monday. In a Facebook post city officials said, "We are happy to report that all samples hav...
Nov 23, 2022
