Category Archives: Top Stories
Musk begins his Twitter ownership with firings, declares the 'bird is freed'
(Reuters) - Elon Musk has taken ownership of Twitter Inc with brutal efficiency, firing top executives but providing little clarity over how he will achieve the ambitions he has outlined for the influ...
Oct 28, 2022 Twitter logo and a photo of Elon Musk are displayed through magnifier in this illustration taken October 27, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Mountain lion travels from Nebraska to Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Whatever you do, if you see a mountain lion in the area, don't exactly give it a welcome. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says GPS technology has tracked a mountain li...
Oct 27, 2022 Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
Man jailed for 2020 Peoria homicide now faces new assault, battery charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man who was in jail on murder charges now faces charges for allegedly assaulting Peoria County corrections employees. A Peoria County grand jury this week filed counts of Aggra...
Oct 27, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail 2020)
Relatives of Uvalde victims call on 'disgraced' Texas public safety director to resign
(Reuters) - Relatives of children killed in the Uvalde school shooting confronted the Texas public safety director on Thursday and demanded he resign over the failure of his agency's troopers to confr...
Oct 27, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Privacy barriers and bike racks maintain a perimiter at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School the day after the video showing the May shooting inside the school released, in Uvalde, Texas, U.S., July 13, 2022. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal/File Photo
Teen indicted by grand jury on weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury did not file all the charges a Peoria teen was arrested on in connection with an allegedly stolen vehicle earlier this month. The grand jury this week indicte...
Oct 27, 2022 (1470 & 100/3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
School report card: Illinois gaining graduates, Peoria schools gaining ground
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The state's annual school report card has been released and it shows there were more high school graduates across Illinois this past year than any school year in the past decade. ...
Oct 27, 2022 Midwest Communications
State: Peoria-area unemployment continues declines
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the jobless average for all fourteen metro areas of the state is down from the year before, and that includes Peoria. Bureau of ...
Oct 27, 2022 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
Peoria Riverfront Museum achieves 'rock star' status with geode, $1m donation
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Riverfront Museum continues to celebrate its tenth anniversary -- this time, in two really big ways. One of those ways is by having acquired a ten foot tall amethyst geode fr...
Oct 27, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
TOWN HALL INFO: Public input needed on Peoria recreational cannabis regulations
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria city elected leaders want more public input as they consider refining the city's rules around marijuana dispensaries. Some of the questions the city still wants answered include...
Oct 27, 2022 (File-1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy)
No indication Russian nuclear drills are 'cover activity'- Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has not yet seen any indications that Russia's ongoing annual "Grom" exercises of its nuclear forces may be a cover for a real deployment, U.S. Defense Secreta...
Oct 27, 2022 A still image from video, released by the Russian Defence Ministry, shows what it said to be Russia's Tu-95MS strategic bomber taking off during exercises held by strategic nuclear forces at an unknown location, in this image taken from handout footage released October 26, 2022. Russian Defence Ministry/Handout
