Category Archives: Top Stories
East Peoria City Council working with law firm on PFAS in drinking water
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The East Peoria City Council votes to consider litigation about concerning levels of a chemical in the city's water. City Attorney Scott Brunton says that apparently like some othe...
Jun 22, 2022 (Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Bill Cosby found liable in civil case for sexual assault in 1975
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Reuters) -A California jury on Tuesday found comedian Bill Cosby was liable for sexually assaulting a woman at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager. The jury award...
Jun 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Bill Cosby reacts outside his house after Pennsylvania's highest court overturned his sexual assault conviction and ordered him released from prison immediately, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, U.S. June 30, 2021. REUTERS/Rachel Wisniewski
Battle over state gas tax holiday signage continues
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A group representing gas station owners in Illinois has fired another salvo at the state over some signage the state is allegedly forcing those owners to post. The Illinois Fuel an...
Jun 21, 2022 (Illinois Fuel and Retail Association)
Gun found in rental at PIA turns out to be BB gun
PEORIA, Ill. - Some potentially scary moments Monday at a Peoria car rental business, after an employee thought a gun was found in a returned rental car. Peoria County Sheriffs Deputies say an employe...
Jun 21, 2022 (Peoria County Sheriffs Office)
Kellogg's to split into three companies, corporate home to be in Chicago
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. - A company best known for its breakfast cereals but makes other food products is going to be calling Illinois its new official corporate home. According to a news release, Kellogg...
Jun 21, 2022 (Kellogg's)
Woman charged with leaving baby in car
BELLEVUE, Ill. - A rural Knox County woman was arrested Monday for what Peoria County Jail records indicate was the third time this year on a charge of Endangering the Life or Health of a Child. The P...
Jun 21, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Pence shared Peoria spotlight with LaHood, King
PEORIA, Ill. - U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood says the November mid-term election is incredibly important. The Dunlap Republican told the crowd at Monday night's Lincoln Day Dinner he could have seen the curr...
Jun 21, 2022 Cooper Banks/1470-100.3 WMBD
At Jan. 6 Capitol riot hearing, election officials tell of harassment by Trump supporters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. state election officials on Tuesday recounted how supporters of Donald Trump threatened, insulted and harassed them, sometimes turning up at their homes, after they refused ...
Jun 21, 2022 Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling attend the fourth of eight planned public hearings 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 21, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
East Peoria City Council working with law firm on PFAS in drinking water
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The East Peoria City Council votes to consider litigation about concerning levels of a chemical in the city's water. City Attorney Scott Brunton says that apparently like some othe...
Jun 21, 2022 (Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Law enforcement response in Uvalde shooting was 'abject failure,' official says
(Reuters) -The law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers was "an abject failure" in which a commander put the lives of officers over those of the ...
Jun 21, 2022 Ricca Amaro, with her parents, Alma and Ramon Amaro, all from San Antonio, visit the memorial for the shooting victims at Robb Elementary School early Saturday morning in Uvalde, Texas, U.S., June 11, 2022. REUTERS/Lisa Krantz
