Category Archives: Top Stories
Massive particle accelerator arrives at OSF campus
PEORIA, Ill. -- The project to install massive new equipment at the new OSF health Cancer Institute in Peoria is making progress with the arrival of a giant particle accelerator. The device was seen m...
Oct 19, 2022
UPDATE: Body found in East Peoria identified
UPDATED 4:54 P.M. EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The Tazewell County Coroner is now saying it was a former Florida resident who had been reported missing in April as the body found earlier this week in East Peor...
Oct 19, 2022 (Pekin Police via Facebook)
U.S. to release oil reserves as Biden tackles high gas prices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden announced a plan on Wednesday to sell off 15 million barrels of crude oil from the nation's emergency supply and begin refilling the reserve as he tries...
Oct 19, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden calls for a federal gas tax holiday as he speaks about gas prices during remarks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building's South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 22, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Man accused of Peoria Heights carjacking
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - A Peoria man who's jail record lists him as homeless is accused of trying to carjack a vehicle Tuesday night. Peoria Heights Police arrested Cameron Camper, 21, just before 10 p...
Oct 19, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Russia's Putin declares martial law in seized Ukrainian regions
KYIV/MIKOLAIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin introduced martial law on Wednesday in four Ukrainian regions he says are part of Russia as some residents of the Russian-held city of Khers...
Oct 19, 2022 A Ukrainian national flag rises over a local council's headquarter building, heavily damaged during Russia's attack in the village of Lymany near a frontline in Mykolaiv region, Ukraine October 18, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
N.Korea fires artillery shells to send 'serious warning' to S.Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired 100 more artillery shells off its west coast on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, just hours after it launched hundreds of shells into the sea off its east and...
Oct 19, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A North Korean flag flutters at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea, in this picture taken near the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, South Korea, July 19, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Pool/File Photo
Peoria's 2023 budget appears solid, thanks in part to COVID funding
PEORIA, Ill. -- With the help of COVID-19 relief money and some surprise local revenue, the City of Peoria appears to be in a good position reviewing their 2023 budget proposal, but the city is still ...
Oct 19, 2022 Scott McLeod / CC
Plenty of jabs in second and final Illinois gubernatorial debate
PEORIA, Ill. -- For the second and final time before next month's general elections, Illinois voters were treated to a 60 minute slugging match between Illinois' top two gubernatorial candidates, Demo...
Oct 18, 2022 Midwest Communications
Five Peorians charged with PPP violations
PEORIA, Ill. - Five Peoria residents are facing federal charges for fraudulently getting money from the COVID-19-caused federal Paycheck Protection Program. The five -- aged between 25 and 44 -- all f...
Oct 18, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
U.S. jury acquits Russian on charges he lied to FBI over 'Steele dossier'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Russian researcher who contributed explosive details to a document dubbed the "Steele dossier" that alleged ties between former U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election camp...
Oct 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO - An FBI logo is pictured on an agent's shirt in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S. October 19, 2021. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
