Category Archives: Top Stories
U.S. weekly jobless claims dip as labor market remains resilient
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week and data for the prior period was revised sharply down, suggesting labor market conditions rema...
Aug 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A job seeker leaves the job fair for airport related employment at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., December 7, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
FBI's sealed evidence that led to search of Trump's home focus of court hearing
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - Sealed records containing evidence the U.S. Justice Department presented to secure court approval to search Donald Trump's Florida home will be at the heart of a hear...
Aug 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Donald Trump departs Trump Tower two days after FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach home, in New York City, New york, U.S., August 10, 2022. REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado/File Photo
PPD hopes photos will help solve an armed robbery
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police hope releasing two photos will lead to an arrest in an armed robbery that happened late Sunday morning. Witnesses told police a male suspect walked into a building on N. ...
Aug 18, 2022 (Peoria Police Dept.)
Commercial building fire in South Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Crews responded to a fire in a South Peoria neighborhood Wednesday afternoon. Fire Chief Shawn Sollberger said fire companies were called around 4:15 p.m. Wednesday to an area near Lig...
Aug 17, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Giuliani testifies in Georgia criminal probe into 2020 U.S. election
ATLANTA (Reuters) -Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer, testified before a special grand jury in Atlanta on Wednesday in a Georgia criminal probe examining attempts by the former U.S...
Aug 17, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is seen in a vehicle outside his apartment building after his law license was suspended in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., June 24, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Pence says he would consider testifying to Jan. 6 Capitol riot panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday he would consider testifying before the House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the ...
Aug 17, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former Vice President Mike Pence is displayed on a screen during a hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., US, on Thursday, June 16, 2022. Tom Brenner/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Pritzker: No special session yet for abortion laws or assault weapons ban
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said he would call a special session of the General Assembly to discuss further trying to protect what he says is someone's right to have an abortion ...
Aug 17, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
State's Attorney: 'Serial rapist' in custody
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County State's Attorney calls him, "a serial rapist." Jodi Hoos says in a news release DeMarquis Turner, 39, was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on three counts of Criminal ...
Aug 17, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
U.S. retail sales flat on gasoline price drop; consumer spending resilient
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales were unexpectedly unchanged in July as falling gasoline prices weighed on receipts at service stations, but consumer spending appeared to pick up at the start ...
Aug 17, 2022 FILE PHOTO: People shop for clothes at a Target retail chain in Westbury, New York, U.S., May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Peoria considers using COVID relief funds to help residents with rising utility bills
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria residents may soon get some help paying rising utility bills after the city council Tuesday night discussed ways to spend some of the millions of COVID relief dollars Peoria is ...
Aug 17, 2022 (File/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
