Category Archives: Top Stories
Walmart profit warning drags retail stocks as consumers cut spending
(Reuters) -U.S. retailers tumbled on Tuesday after a forecast cut from industry bellwether Walmart Inc stoked fears of similar warnings from a sector struggling with the impact of high inflation on co...
Jul 26, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Walmart's logo is seen outside one of its stores in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 20, 2018. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski/File Photo
Texas school principal suspended after Uvalde shooting
(Reuters) - The principal of the Texas elementary school where a gunman went on a rampage in May has been suspended with pay, her attorney said on Tuesday, two weeks after a damning report about lax s...
Jul 26, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks with Mandy Gutierrez, Principal at Robb Elementary School, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in the deadliest U.S. school shooting in nearly a decade, during U.S. President Joe Biden's visit at the school, in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. May 29, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Illinois sees record-breaking adult-use cannabis sales in FY 2022
CHICAGO, Ill. -- A record-breaking year for adult-use cannabis sales in Illinois. The state's recreational marijuana industry racked up $1.5 billion in sales during fiscal year 2022, that ended on Jun...
Jul 26, 2022 Elsa Olofsson / CC
PPS has a new school board president
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public Schools has a new board president. Monday night, former Vice President Martha Ross was voted to move to the top spot. Ross takes the place of now former Board President G...
Jul 26, 2022 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
Arson appears to be cause of Peoria apartment fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Fire crews were called just after 6:30 p.m. Monday to an apartment complex at 1615 N. Great Oak Road on reports of smoke coming from one of the units. The first engine company o...
Jul 26, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Police Chief continues to see successes, thanks in part to public, with Anti-Violence Initiative
PEORIA, Ill. - Yes, there is still violence in Peoria, but the city's Police Chief, Eric Echevarria, says there are serious inroads being made toward ending or at least reducing it. Echevarria says fo...
Jul 25, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Pope apologizes for 'deplorable evil' of Canadian indigenous schools
MASKWACIS, Alberta (Reuters) - Pope Francis apologized on Monday to Canada's native people on their land for the Church's role in schools where indigenous children were abused, calling their forced cu...
Jul 25, 2022 Pope Francis apologizes to indigenous people for the residential school system in Canada during his visit to Maskwacis, Alberta, Canada July 25, 2022. REUTERS/Todd Korol
'Goodfellas' actor Paul Sorvino dies at 83
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Paul Sorvino, who played the role of gangster Paulie Cicero in classic mob movie "Goodfellas," has died at the age of 83, a spokesperson for the actor said on Monday. Sorvino, a...
Jul 25, 2022 Paul Sorvino attends the 29th annual Producers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. January 20, 2018. REUTERS/Phil McCarten
Ameren on energy bill hikes: Don't blame them
PEORIA, Ill. - Ameren Illinois says they don't like the increase in power prices any more than you do. But, by and large, spokesperson Tucker Kennedy says power bill increases as much as 55 percent on...
Jul 25, 2022 Brian Cantoni / CC
Victim identified in fatal motorcycle crash
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The Tazewell County Coroner has identified the victim of Friday night's fatal motorcycle crash near the East Peoria side of the McClugage Bridge. Coroner Charles Hanley says prelim...
Jul 25, 2022 Midwest Communications
