Category Archives: Top Stories
City moves forward with 'smart' street lighting project
PEORIA, Ill. - A local lawmaker is helping to shed some light on a problem that could help upgrade the city, while also reducing crime. State Representative Jehan Gordon-Booth says she's secured $2.5 ...
Nov 02, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Fed delivers big rate hike, signals possible smaller increases ahead
UPDATED 2:56 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point as it continued to battle the worst outbreak of inflation in 40 y...
Nov 02, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The Federal Reserve building is pictured in Washington, DC, U.S., August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Wattie
Congressional candidate's campaign comes to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- With less than a week to go before the November election, one of Illinois' two candidates for the seat in Congress from the 17th District is campaigning in Peoria. Republican Esther Jo...
Nov 02, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Esther for Congress)
Pelosi attack suspect told police he was on 'suicide mission,' prosecutors say
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -The man charged with breaking into U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home and clubbing her husband with a hammer later told police he was on a "suicide mission" and had planne...
Nov 02, 2022 David Wayne DePape, 42, who is charged with breaking into U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home and clubbing her husband in the head with a hammer, wears his arm in a sling before San Francisco Superior Court Judge Diane Northway at the Criminal courts in San Francisco, California U.S. November 1, 2022 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Vicki Behringer
Hy-Vee closing all stores on Thanksgiving
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, -- Hy-Vee announced Tuesday that it will close all of its stores on Thanksgiving Day. According to a release, it's the first time in company's 92-year history that all Hy-Vee st...
Nov 02, 2022 Picture Des Moines / CC
Vehicle leads PPD on chase, then crashes overnight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police conducted a traffic stop in the area of Ann and Greenlawn just before 1:30 a.m. Wednesday for an Illinois Vehicle Code violation. Peoria Police Spokesperson Semone Roth s...
Nov 02, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
North Korea fires 23 missiles, one landing off South Korean coast for first time
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired at least 23 missiles into the sea on Wednesday, including one that landed less than 40 miles off South Korea's coast, which the South's President Yoon Suk-yeol desc...
Nov 02, 2022 People watch a TV broadcasting a news report on North Korea firing three ballistic missiles into the sea, in Seoul, South Korea, November 2, 2022. Yonhap via REUTERS
Florida school mass shooter sentenced to life in prison
UPDATED 5:09 P.M. (Reuters) -Nikolas Cruz, who murdered 17 students and staff with a semi-automatic rifle at a Florida high school, was formally sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after listenin...
Nov 02, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A memorial is viewed by parents and students on campus at a memorial on the one year anniversary of the shooting which claimed 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, U.S., February 14, 2019. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
East Peoria AirBnB opponents see path to court victories
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- One group of neighbors and their developer in East Peoria, passionately opposed to the addition of a new AirBnB-style short term rental in their community, are revealing some succ...
Nov 01, 2022 (Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Heights apartment building damaged by fire
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - A few residents of an apartment building in Peoria Heights have been displaced by an afternoon fire. Firefighters from the Heights and some other departments responded to the ap...
Nov 01, 2022 (25 News)
