Category Archives: Top Stories
Rural Dunlap blaze sends up smoke plume seen for miles
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- One top Dunlap Fire Protection commander says fire crews didn't have much of a chance to stop flames which fully engulfed a home in rural Peoria County late Thursday. "It was ju...
Sep 08, 2022 (Dunlap Community Fire Protection District via Facebook)
Juvenile, already in custody, arrested for recent armed robberies
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria juvenile has been arrested in connection to two armed robberies that have happened in the last few months. Police say they interviewed a 17-year-old juvenile who was already in...
Sep 08, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
PPS: 'We've made progress.' PFT: 'We're disappointed.'
UPDATED 6:21 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Federation of Teachers and Peoria Public Schools are now giving two somewhat different accounts of the late-night negotiating session with a federal mediato...
Sep 08, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man arrested after argument on drug charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A report of "family trouble" called in to Peoria Police resulted in a man being arrested on felony drug charges. Peoria Police say they went to the home on Beacon Street in the North Va...
Sep 08, 2022 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Police investigating shooting; one arrest made
UPDATED 6:57 a.m. 9/9 PEORIA, Ill. - We're learning more about one of two separate shootings that happened in South Peoria during the mid-afternoon hours Thursday. Peoria Police say the first shooting...
Sep 08, 2022 (25 News)
"Little Shop of Horrors" comes to Peoria Players this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- A well known musical is making its way to the Peoria Players stage this weekend. "Little Shop of Horrors" opens Friday night. The story centers on an awkward young man, Seymour, who ra...
Sep 08, 2022 (Peoria Players Theatre)
Update: Drowning victim identified as Spring Bay resident
UPDATED 3:47 p.m. SPRING BAY, Ill. -- The man whose body was found in the Illinois River near Spring Bay Wednesday has now been identified. Woodford County Coroner Tim Ruestman says Fondulac Park Dist...
Sep 08, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Steve Bannon surrenders to face New York criminal charges in border wall case
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Steve Bannon, a onetime top strategist to former U.S. President Donald Trump, on Thursday surrendered to New York authorities to face state charges in an indictment related to Trum...
Sep 08, 2022 Former U.S. President Donald Trump's White House chief strategist Steve Bannon arrives to surrender at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in New York, U.S., September 8, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
U.S. weekly jobless claims fall to three-month low
(Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week to a three-month low, underscoring the robustness of the labor market even as the Federal Reserve raises ...
Sep 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Signage for a job fair is seen on 5th Avenue after the release of the jobs report in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Queen Elizabeth dies at 96, ending an era for Britain
UPDATED 12:51 P.M. BALMORAL, Scotland (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and the nation's figurehead for seven decades, has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace said on Thursda...
Sep 08, 2022 Britain's Queen Elizabeth waits in the Drawing Room before receiving Liz Truss for an audience, where she invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative party to become Prime Minister and form a new government, at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, Britain September 6, 2022. Jane Barlow/Pool via REUTERS
