Category Archives: Top Stories
U.S. appeals court says Trump criminal probe can resume classified records review
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department can resume reviewing classified records seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Florida home pending appeal, a federal appellate court...
Sep 22, 2022 Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 3, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Overnight shooting in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called to the area of Spring and NE Adams Streets around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday on reports of multiple gunshots. Peoria Public Information Officer Semone Roth said an ...
Sep 22, 2022 Midwest Communications
Another council member wants to be Pekin Mayor
PEKIN, Ill. - Another member of the Pekin City Council wants the top job. Dave Nutter has announced a run for mayor of Pekin, and will join Council Member Becky Cloyd on the 2023 election ballot. It i...
Sep 21, 2022 (Dave Nutter for Mayor via Facebook)
2 Dunlap schools named National Blue Ribbon Schools
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The state says two schools in the Dunlap School District are among the best in the nation. The Illinois State Board of Education says Hickory Grove and Ridgeview Elementary Schools...
Sep 21, 2022 (Dunlap School District)
U.S. rents surge, leaving behind generation of younger workers
(Reuters) -The cost of renting a home in the United States is surging and young workers have felt the sharpest pain, many of them taking on additional jobs or roommates to afford housing costs. Househ...
Sep 21, 2022 A row of residential houses stands in Brooklyn's neighborhood of Bushwick, New York, U.S., September 16, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky
Fed goes big again with latest rate hike; Powell vows to 'keep at it'
UPDATED 3:22 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve delivered its third straight interest rate increase of three-quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday and signaled a high likelihood of a...
Sep 21, 2022 U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell holds a news conference after Federal Reserve raised its target interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point in Washington, U.S., September 21, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Grand jury files charges in several cases
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury met Tuesday and filed charges in a number of cases -- adding charges in some cases, not filing charges in others, and affirming originally-filed charges in mo...
Sep 21, 2022 (1470 $ 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Police want public's help solving armed robbery
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are looking for your help in investigating a late-evening armed robbery late Tuesday. Police say it happened at a business near Starr Street and Westmoreland Avenue at aro...
Sep 21, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Trump, adult children sued by New York attorney general for fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump and his adult children were sued on Wednesday for what New York state's attorney general called numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation, acc...
Sep 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 3, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
Fire Chief announces $4M in federal grants to hire new firefighters
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Fire Chief Shawn Sollberger is celebrating confirmation that his department will indeed receive a massive federal grant which will go toward funding much needed new hires. Sollb...
Sep 21, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
