Category Archives: Top Stories
Canton to 'Light the Night Blue' for slain Deputy Troy Chisum
CANTON, Ill. -- Killed in the line of duty, a Fulton County community is still mourning the death of Deputy Troy Chisum. On Saturday, three years later his family is 'Lighting the Night Blue' in his h...
Jun 25, 2022 (25 News)
PPD makes arrest in connection with March homicide
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police, along with U.S. Marshals, arrested a man Friday for the shooting death of 40-year-old Timothy Foreman Jr. According to a release from the PPD, officers located 22-year-o...
Jun 25, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Planned Parenthood of Illinois angry over abortion ruling
CHICAGO, Ill. - Planned Parenthood of Illinois is, in the organization's words, "furious" over the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe versus Wade. The organization's CEO, Jennifer Welch, says sinc...
Jun 24, 2022 (Planned Parenthood of Illinois)
Peoria Catholic Diocese reacts to Roe v. Wade decision
PEORIA, Ill. - There's more work to be done. That's what Catholic Diocese of Peoria Bishop Louis Tylka says on Friday's Roe versus Wade-related decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. Tylka describes life...
Jun 24, 2022 (Catholic Diocese of Peoria via YouTube)
Biden says 'cruel' Roe v. Wade decision dangerous to women
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court's decision on Friday to overturn the constitutional right to abortion will deny American women control of their own lives and called on...
Jun 24, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks after the the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Dobbs v Women's Health Organization abortion case, overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion decision, at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
U.S. House passes gun-safety legislation, sends to Biden
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed significant gun-safety legislation for the first time in three decades, sending it to President Joe Biden, who is expected to s...
Jun 24, 2022 U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appears with gun safety advocates before the House vote on gun safety legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert
Luft, Stoller, Godron-Booth react to Roe v. Wade ruling
UPDATED 2:21 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. - Some of the area's local representatives in Springfield are, so far, praising the Supreme Court's decision on Roe versus Wade, effectively turning the matter back to s...
Jun 24, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
IL reps in Washington react to Roe v. Wade decision
UPDATED 2:11 p.m. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Local representatives in Congress are reacting to the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe Versus Wade. 17th District Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-East Moline...
Jun 24, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Reactions to U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade abortion landmark
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public figures across the political spectrum reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Friday overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that recognized a woman's cons...
Jun 24, 2022 Anti-abortion demonstrators celebrate outside the United States Supreme Court as the court rules in the Dobbs v Women’s Health Organization abortion case, overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion decision in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
In their own words: U.S. Supreme Court justices on overturning Roe v. Wade
(Reuters) - In a bombshell decision, the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had recognized a woman's constitutional right to an abo...
Jun 24, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., April 23, 2021. Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
