Category Archives: Top Stories
Survivors take part in "More Than Pink Walk"
PEORIA, Ill. - Hundreds of cancer survivors are expected to take part in Peoria's "More Than Pink Walk" Saturday morning. One of them is Wanda Schoch of East Peoria. She was diagnosed with a rare form...
May 06, 2022 (Susan G. Komen)
Georgia official rules U.S. Representative Greene can seek reelection
UPDATED 5:36 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene should be allowed to run for reelection, Georgia's secretary of state ruled on Friday, rejecting arguments by a group...
May 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) holds a news conference about her suspended Twitter account and the impending sale of Twitter at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Man who escaped from van in Woodford County still wanted
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. - There may not be an active search, but police are hopeful someone might have seen a man who escaped from a transport van in Woodford County late Wednesday. Javier Aguirre, 47, ...
May 06, 2022 (Illinois State Police)
Pritzker responds to audit on deadly LaSalle Veterans' Home COVID outbreak in 2020
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- In response to a less than flattering audit report about a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at a Northern Illinois long term care facility, drawing memories of a similar deadly nursing ho...
May 06, 2022 (State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service)
Luft reacts to LaSalle Veterans Home COVID-19 outbreak
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Republicans in the Illinois Legislature are wasting no time throwing the blame at Democratic Governor JB Pritzker for the handling of COVID-19 outbreak at a veterans home during th...
May 06, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Boeing to move headquarters from Chicago to Virginia
WASHINGTON/SEATTLE (Reuters) -Boeing Co said on Thursday it will move its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia, as the crisis-plagued U.S. planemaker works to repair relationships with cus...
May 06, 2022 Midwest Communications
A throw back to history and a focus on expansion in East Peoria State of the City Address
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- East Peoria Mayor John Kahl is expressing excitement at future development and the prospects of a bustling city east of the Illinois River in years to come. During the annual Stat...
May 06, 2022 (Cooper Banks/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Karine Jean-Pierre named first Black White House press secretary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Thursday he has chosen Karine Jean-Pierre to be White House press secretary, succeeding Jen Psaki and becoming the first Black and openly gay person t...
May 06, 2022 White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is introduced by current White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki as President Joe Biden's next White House press secretary at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 5, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
U.S. job growth solid in April; unemployment rate steady at 3.6%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth increased more than expected in April, underscoring the economy's strong fundamentals despite a contraction in gross domestic product in the first quarter. Nonfa...
May 06, 2022 A job seeker leaves the job fair for airport related employment at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., December 7, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
SpaceX capsule splashes down, bringing 4 astronauts home from 6-month mission
(Reuters) -The third long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station (ISS) safely returned to Earth early on Friday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida...
May 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The four commercial crew astronauts representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission are pictured in their Dragon spacesuits for a fit check aboard the International Space Station's Harmony module on April 21, 2022. From left, are ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer, and NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron. NASA/Handout via REUTERS
