Category Archives: Top Stories
SAFE-T Act changes could be forthcoming, 'technical' in nature
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Changes may yet come to the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform before its Jan. 1 effective date, but some of its major proponents in the General Assembly sa...
Nov 16, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Amtrak cancels some Illinois train routes through mid-January
CHICAGO, Ill. - Amtrak is cancelling two Illinois routes -- one from Chicago and one to Chicago -- through the middle of January. The passenger rail service blames staffing shortages for the cancellat...
Nov 16, 2022 (Mike Armstrong/Amtrak)
Same-sex marriage protection bill clears initial hurdle in U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to advance a bill protecting federal recognition of same-sex marriage, prompted by concerns that a more conservative Supreme Court could revers...
Nov 16, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol is seen at sunset on the eve of the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the building, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Ground broken on new Peoria County HHS building
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County officials are using some of $34 million in COVID-19-related funds to build a new facility combining several departments. Ground has been broken on a new Health and Human S...
Nov 16, 2022 (City of Peoria Government via Facebook)
Bond set in alleged murder of Peoria teen
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria teenager is being held in jail on $1.5 million bond for allegedly shooting and killing another teenager a week and a half ago. Court records indicate Erick Jackson, 18, made hi...
Nov 16, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
PFD: Electrical fire leads to thousands in damage to Peoria home
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria fire officials say a home sustained $90,000 dollars in damage as the result of an electrical fire Wednesday afternoon. It happened around noon at a two-story house at 6875 North...
Nov 16, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
IDOT: 'Winter Weather, Get it Together'
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The weather we've seen in central Illinois the past few days might be a dress rehearsal for what's to come -- at least, as far as the Illinois Department of Transportation is conce...
Nov 16, 2022 Yellowstone National Park
'Hurts to breathe': Angry families confront Wisconsin parade attacker
(Reuters) -Grieving relatives of those injured and killed when a man drove through a Christmas parade near Milwaukee last year confronted the driver with anger and tears on Tuesday during the first da...
Nov 16, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Darrell Brooks poses for a booking photograph at the Milwaukee County Jail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. November 3, 2021. Picture taken November 3, 2021. Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
NASA's Artemis rocketship on course for moon after epic launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) -With a dash of launch-pad heroics and 8.8 million pounds (4 million kg) of thrust, NASA's colossal new rocket soared into space for the first time early on Wednesday, s...
Nov 16, 2022 NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from launch complex 39-B on the unmanned Artemis I mission to the moon at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
Peoria man gets decades in prison on federal meth-related charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man described by federal prosecutors as the leader of an extensive methamphetamine conspiracy will spend the next three decades in jail. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Christo...
Nov 16, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
