Category Archives: Top Stories
GasBuddy: Peoria's gas prices are down a bit
PEORIA, Ill. -- Gas prices in the Peoria area have fallen over 4 cents a gallon in the past week, averaging $4.21 on Monday, according to GasBuddy. Peoria gas prices are nearly 17 cents higher than a ...
Oct 31, 2022 Mike Mozart / CC
Peoria home threatened by shed fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called to S. Westmoreland, in the area of W. Grinell and W. Hayes Streets, Saturday morning on reports of a shed on fire. Crews arrived around 8:30 a.m., findi...
Oct 29, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Mountain lion spotted in Springfield tranquilized and moved
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says after several days of tracking and observing a mountain lion on the west side of Springfield, the agency made the decision Friday ...
Oct 29, 2022 Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
IDPH sees uptick in COVID-19 cases in Illinois
CHICAGO, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting an uptick of COVID-19 cases. State Public Health Director Dr. Sameer Vohra says there were over 13,000 new cases confirmed this p...
Oct 29, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Biden takes aim at 'excess' oil profits, denounces Pelosi attack
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday called an attack on the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "despicable" and denounced those who spread lies about stolen elections for corrodin...
Oct 29, 2022 FILE PHOTO - U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris attend a meeting of the Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 4, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Man arrested in attack on U.S. House Speaker Pelosi's spouse faces charges
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A man who clubbed U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband over the head with a hammer, shouting, "Where is Nancy?", faced charges of attempted murder and other felonies a d...
Oct 29, 2022 Members of the media work next to police tape outside the home of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi where her husband Paul Pelosi was violently assaulted after a break-in at their house, according to a statement from her office, in San Francisco, California, U.S., October 28, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Tulsi Gabbard to headline Darren Bailey GOP rally in Illinois
PEORIA, Ill. -- It seems to suggest major change is ongoing within the American body politic. A woman who once ran for President as a Democrat and then later supported a Democratic-socialist candidate...
Oct 28, 2022
Rock 'n' roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis known as 'The Killer' dies
(Reuters) - American rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, who was torn between his Bible-thumping upbringing and his desire to make hell-raising rock 'n' roll with hits such as "Great Balls of Fire" and "Who...
Oct 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A vaccinated 85-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis, the last living member of the Million Dollar Quartet that recorded many hits at Memphis' Sun Records in the 1950s, renews marriage vows with 7th wife Judith at his ranch in Nesbit, Mississippi, U.S. March 9, 2021. Picture taken March 9, 2021. REUTERS/Karen Pulfer Focht/File Photo
ISP: This Halloween, treat yourself to a sober ride home
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois State Police and local police are beefing up enforcement for the Halloween weekend. Illinois Department of Transportation Spokesperson Paul Wappel says more than 1,000 pe...
Oct 28, 2022 Arvell Dorsey Jr. / CC
Eight killed in Oklahoma house fire
(Reuters) - Eight people died in a house fire on Thursday in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, where police said the blaze was being investigated as a homicide. Neighbors reported the fire about 4 p.m. (2100 GM...
Oct 28, 2022 liz west / CC
