Category Archives: Top Stories
Uvalde school board fires police chief criticized for shooting response
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) -The Uvalde, Texas, school board on Wednesday fired the school district's embattled police chief for his much-criticized handling of the response to a shooting rampage that ki...
Aug 25, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Privacy barriers and bike racks maintain a perimeter at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School, after a video was released showing the May shooting inside the school in Uvalde, Texas, U.S., July 13, 2022. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal
South Side Mission receives $250K donation
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria's South Side Mission received a $250,000 check from the Gilmore Foundation on Wednesday. The donation will fund youth outreach programming, recreation rooms, classes and a new y...
Aug 25, 2022 (South Side Mission)
Union claims PPS not being open with revenues as potential strike gets closer
PEORIA, Ill. - The back and forth continues between the Peoria Federation of Teachers and Peoria Public Schools administration, especially as one side has now made some pretty serious allegations. The...
Aug 24, 2022 (25 News)
City Council working on cannabis dispensary rule change
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City Council still doesn't want cannabis dispensaries within 1,500 feet of each other, but they're trying to help a group of potential applicants out at the same time. The co...
Aug 24, 2022 Elsa Olofsson / CC
Crews respond to North Peoria fire
UPDATED 6:27 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A late-afternoon fire in North Peoria was believed to be electrical in nature. Peoria firefighters were called to a home at 8212 N. Knoxville, near Knoxville and Detwe...
Aug 24, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Bond set for man accused of shooting woman
PEORIA, Ill. - Bond has been set at $1 million for a Peoria man accused of shooting a woman three times Sunday morning. Kevin Boyce, 29, was in court Wednesday for a bond hearing. Boyce -- charged wit...
Aug 24, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Bond set for man accused in July 4th homicide
PEORIA, Ill. - Bond has been set at $2 million for the man charged with the fatal Fourth of July shooting in the area of Taft Homes. Court records indicate Raekwon Pickett, 22, will be arraigned Septe...
Aug 24, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Children's Home of Illinois needs foster parents
PEORIA, Ill. -- It's a hard, but important job. The Children's Home Association of Illinois is in need of new foster parents to take in kids that have nowhere else to go. The Home's Interim President ...
Aug 24, 2022 (Children's Home Association of Illinois via Facebook)
Biden announces student loan debt relief plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that the U.S. government will forgive $10,000 in student loans for many debt-saddled college-goers, a move that could boost support for his ...
Aug 24, 2022 FILE PHOTO - A graduating student waits for the start of the Commencement ceremony at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 27, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Agency identified 700-plus pages of classified records at Trump's home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Archives discovered more than 700 pages of classified documents at Donald Trump's Florida home in addition to material seized this month by FBI agents, accordi...
Aug 24, 2022 FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home after Trump said that FBI agents raided it, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. August 15, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo
