Category Archives: Top Stories
Israel, Palestinians agree truce from Sunday evening - sources
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel and Palestinian militants have agreed to a truce in Gaza from Sunday evening as mediated by Cairo, sources said, after a weekend-long pounding of Palestinian targets b...
Aug 07, 2022 Palestinians gather at the scene where senior commander of Islamic Jihad militant group Khaled Mansour was killed in Israeli strikes, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, August 7, 2022. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Deployment of Peoria-based Illinois National Guard unit
PEORIA, Ill. - Some of Peoria's best are once again ready to help their country. The 709th Medical Company Area Support held a deployment ceremony Saturday, ahead of an assignment to help coalition fo...
Aug 07, 2022 (Illinois National Guard)
Big year for St. Jude and its Peoria telethon
PEORIA, Ill. - A big year for some big milestones involving St. Jude. Peoria is the only city in the nation to host a telethon for the Memphis-based children's research hospital, and on the 45th anniv...
Aug 07, 2022 The finale of the 2022 St. Jude Telethon (25 News)
Biden tests negative for COVID again, will exit isolation, White House physician says
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 for a second consecutive day on Sunday and will exit isolation after testing positive for nearly a week, the White...
Aug 07, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden gestures to the media as he walks towards Marine One for departure to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. August 7, 2022. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
Three-vehicle accident seriously injures two
UPDATED 8:41 A.M. 8/7/22 PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say some serious injuries were caused during a late-morning accident Saturday. Peoria Police spokeswoman Semone Roth says the accident occurred at...
Aug 06, 2022 (Illinois Department of Transportation traffic camera)
Peorian arrested on gun and assault charges
PEORIA, Ill. -- Police arrested a Peoria man, 33-year-old Elander Simmons, on multiple charges after his employer reported that he was making threats to staff. Officers were called to the business on ...
Aug 06, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
U.S. Senate Democrats get green light on $430 billion climate, drug bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Democrats on Saturday were set to push ahead on a bill that would address key elements of President Joe Biden's agenda, tackling climate change, lowering the cost of ...
Aug 06, 2022 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) holds a news conference to tout the a $430 billion drug pricing, energy and tax bill championed by Democrats at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. August 5, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Fire displaces Peoria residents early Saturday
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Fire crews were called to home on W. Harper Terrace, near W. Hamilton Place, by residents reporting a fire in their kitchen Saturday morning. Fire Battalion Chief Lore Baxter sa...
Aug 06, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Some limited parking as Peoria welcomes St. Jude runners
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria City Hall's side lot will be closed through Sunday night for the return of the St. Jude runners from Memphis and the accompanying celebration with satellite runners from across ...
Aug 06, 2022 (stjuderuns.org)
Indiana lawmakers approve first state abortion ban since Roe overturned
(Reuters) -The Republican-controlled Indiana Senate gave final legislative approval on Friday to a bill that would ban most abortions, six weeks after a U.S. Supreme Court decision erased a woman's co...
Aug 06, 2022 Indiana Senator Susan Glick, author of Senate Bill 1, debates Senator Greg Taylor shortly before the vote to accept Senate Bill 1, which was passed by the House earlier in the day, making the Indiana legislature the first in the nation to restrict abortions, in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. August 5, 2022. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
