Category Archives: Top Stories
Sheriff's office releases initial details of overnight Peoria County burglary
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria County Sheriff's officials are offering some initial details in an overnight burglary at a local bar as the search for suspects continues. Deputies say it happened around 2:50 a...
Sep 02, 2022
Another teen arrested in connection with fight at Peoria Stadium
PEORIA, Ill. -- Another teenager has been arrested for the brawl at Peoria Stadium last Friday night during Peoria High School's season opener football game with Metamora. Peoria Police say on Thursda...
Sep 02, 2022
U.S. court unseals more documents stemming from FBI search of Trump's home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal court in West Palm Beach on Friday unsealed more documents tied to the FBI's unprecedented Aug. 8 search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home, after media o...
Sep 02, 2022 FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home after Trump said that FBI agents searched it, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. August 15, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello
Ameren Illinois: Scammers are targeting small businesses and seniors
PEORIA, Ill. -- It seems scammers are up to their old tricks again in the Peoria Area. Ameren Illinois' Brian Bretsch says scammers are targeting small local businesses, in particular those where lang...
Sep 02, 2022 Midwest Communications/University of Illinois Extension
U.S. job growth solid in August; unemployment rate rises to 3.7%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers hired slightly more workers than expected in August, keeping the Federal Reserve on track to deliver a third 75 basis points interest rate hike this month, though...
Sep 02, 2022 A "now hiring" sign is displayed outside Taylor Party and Equipment Rentals in Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S., September 1, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Peoria man found guilty of 2021 murder
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria man has been convicted of murder in a 2021 homicide. Arenza Brown, 20, was found guilty Thursday of first degree murder, attempted armed robbery, and aggravated unlawful use o...
Sep 02, 2022
Biden targets 'extremist' Trump allies as democratic threat in fraught political moment
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden charged Republican allies of Donald Trump with undermining the country's democracy and urged voters on Thursday to reject extremism ahead of November's...
Sep 01, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on what he calls the "continued battle for the Soul of the Nation" in front of Independence Hall at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, U.S., September 1, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
UPDATED: Peoria union teachers overwhelmingly favor strike authority
UPDATE: 7:07 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. -- By an overwhelming majority in the affirmative, Peoria Federation of Teachers Local 780 members have approved strike authority in a vote held late Thursday. The decis...
Sep 01, 2022 (Peoria Federation of Teachers)
Taiwan shoots down drone for first time off Chinese coast
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's military for the first time shot down an unidentified civilian drone that entered its airspace near an islet off the Chinese coast on Thursday, after the government vowed t...
Sep 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A Taiwan flag can be seen at Liberty Square in Taipei, Taiwan, July 28, 2022. REUTERS/Ann Wang
U.S. judge signals willingness to appoint special master in Trump search case
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday appeared sympathetic to former President Donald Trump's request to appoint a special master to review the documents the FBI seized from his...
Sep 01, 2022 Pages of entirely redacted information are seen in the released version of an affidavit from the U.S. Justice Department that was submitted to a federal judge to support the execution of a search warrant by the FBI at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate after the affidavit was released to the public by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida with more than half the information in the document redacted in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. August 26, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
