Category Archives: Top Stories
Coroner identifies victim of Peoria's 22nd homicide of the year
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Coroner has identified the victim in Monday night's 22nd homicide of the year. Coroner Jamie Harwood says the autopsy on Christopher Terrell Harness, Sr., 46, Peoria, ...
Oct 25, 2022 (25 News)
Man arrested in Woodford County for having stolen vehicle
GERMANTOWN HILLS, Ill. - A Chicago man was arrested in Woodford County after being caught with an allegedly stolen car. The Woodford County Sheriffs Department says deputies pulled Kenneth Dean's vehi...
Oct 25, 2022 (Woodford County Jail)
Violent purse snatching and car theft at UnityPoint, teens accused
PEORIA, Ill. -- Several teenage suspects are charged and a victim is left scarred following a reported violent purse snatching and car theft in Peoria Monday night. Peoria Police released details Tues...
Oct 25, 2022 (File-1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol)
U.S. in 'constant contact' with Russia about Griner, Biden says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is in "constant contact" with Moscow about Brittney Griner, the U.S. WNBA basketball star being held in Russia, President Joe Biden said on Tuesday, after her ...
Oct 25, 2022 U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner appears on a screen via video link from the detention centre during a court hearing to consider an appeal against her prison sentence, in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, Russia October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
Synchronized skating tournament coming to Peoria Civic Center
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria will play host to a major event for synchronized figure skating. That's the announcement made today by The Peoria Area Convention and Visitor's Bureau. CEO J.D. Dalfonso was set...
Oct 25, 2022 (File-Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD)
Illinois AG warns against student debt relief scams
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois residents are being warned about scammers, posing as student loan servicers offering instant debt relief and using high pressure tactics. Since the Biden Administration's...
Oct 25, 2022 WMBD/State of Illinois
Pritzker: Vaccines will prevent repeat of 2020 IL veterans home tragedy
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Governor J.B. Pritzker doesn't appear too concerned about a new outbreak of COVID-19 at the formerly infamous LaSalle Veterans Home in Illinois. During a press event in Chicago on Tue...
Oct 25, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Adidas ends Kanye West partnership over antisemitism, hate speech
(Reuters) - Adidas AG is terminating its partnership immediately with Kanye West, the sporting goods maker said on Tuesday, reacting to a rash of offensive behaviour from the American rapper and desig...
Oct 25, 2022 Singer Kanye West walks past models after presenting his Fall/Winter 2015 partnership line with Adidas at New York Fashion Week February 12, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
Fire destroys South Peoria home
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters are still working to determine the case of a blaze Tuesday morning in South Peoria. Crews went to West Ann Street, inbetween Griswold and Westmoreland, around 6:15 a...
Oct 25, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Russia to take Ukraine 'dirty bomb' warning to U.N. as Kherson empties
NEAR KHERSON FRONTLINE, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia was expected to press its case at the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that Ukraine is preparing to use a "dirty bomb" on its own territory, an assert...
Oct 25, 2022 Victor walks across the forecourt of his garage which was completely destroyed during Russian strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Balakliia, Ukraine, October 22, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
