Category Archives: Top Stories
Leave your pets at home on the 4th of July
PEORIA, Ill. -- We all love our pets, but on the 4th of July, it's best to leave them home as we celebrate our independence. Kitty Yanko, with Peoria County Animal Protection Services, or PCAPS, said ...
Jul 04, 2022 Mara 1 / CC
Video shows Ohio officers killed unarmed Black man in hail of bullets
AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) -Video released on Sunday showed eight police officers in Akron, Ohio, were involved in a shooting that killed an unarmed Black man whose body was found with some 60 gunshot woun...
Jul 04, 2022 Demonstrators protest against the Akron police shooting death of Black man Jayland Walker in Akron, Ohio, U.S. July 3, 2022. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse
Cheney: Jan. 6 panel could make multiple criminal referrals of Trump
(Reuters) -The congressional panel investigating last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters could make multiple referrals to the Justice Department seeking criminal charges ag...
Jul 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Committee Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) talks with Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, after Hutchinson concluded her testimony during a public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
One Peoria woman arrested, another found dead Saturday
PEORIA, Ill. -- A local woman is arrested and charged and now local authorities are investigating the city's 11th homicide of the year after another woman was found dead inside a home just before sunr...
Jul 02, 2022 Midwest Communications
PPD: Three arrested on outstanding warrants, one ghost handgun seized
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria police are announcing details on recent arrests linked to the discovery of at least one ghost gun, along with several other illegal firearms. PPD says officers with the Special ...
Jul 02, 2022 Midwest Communications
Warmer June also dry while July could start with storms
PEORIA, Ill. -- We enter the month of the July with Independence Day celebrations across Central Illinois and looking back at a very hot and pretty DRY month of June. "Despite the pleasant end to the ...
Jul 02, 2022 FILE PHOTO: An electrical line technician works on restoring power after a tornado Vilonia, Arkansas April 29, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Texas, Ohio top courts allow abortion bans to take effect
(Reuters) -The top courts in Texas and Ohio on Friday allowed the Republican-led states to enforce restrictions and bans on abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned the nationwide c...
Jul 02, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Abortion rights activists march past the home of United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S., June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Friday afternoon house fire electrical in nature
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Firefighters say a house fire Friday afternoon was electrical in nature. Crews were called to a home on Forest Hill Avenue, near California, around 3:20 p.m. Fire officials say t...
Jul 01, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Wind projects on hold in Tazewell County
PEKIN, Ill. - Any new wind power projects in Tazewell County are being held up for at least the next six months. 25 News reports the Tazewell County Zoning Board of Appeals Thursday night voted to imp...
Jul 01, 2022 Graeme Maclean / CC
Biden predicts states will try to arrest women who travel for abortions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden predicted on Friday that some U.S. states will try to arrest women for crossing state lines to get abortions after the Supreme Court overturned the constituti...
Jul 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden boards Air Force One to depart for Washington from Madrid Torrejon Airport, Madrid, Spain, June 30, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
