Category Archives: Top Stories
Caterpillar profit beats estimates on higher demand, price hikes
(Reuters) -Caterpillar Inc reported a better-than-expected first-quarter profit on Thursday, as a boom in construction and mining activities drove demand for its heavy machinery across industrial sect...
Apr 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Caterpillar logo is pictured at the 'Bauma' Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Construction Equipment in Munich, Germany, April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle/File Photo
Garage fire damages several homes in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- A garage in Peoria was engulfed in flames that spread to three nearby homes late Wednesday night. Firefighters were called about 10 p.m. to the fire on S. Tonti Circle, near S. Laramie...
Apr 28, 2022 Midwest Communications
Local residents warned of massive Ameren Illinois rate hikes coming by June
PEORIA, Ill. -- Local residents are being warned of a massive hike in energy prices coming within the next month. You're told to prepare your budgets for an average $500 per year increase in your Amer...
Apr 27, 2022 (Ameren Illinois)
Pritzker signs bills to address teacher shortages, substitute teacher shortages
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - It may not completely solve the state's shortage of teachers, but it may very well help. Governor JB Pritzker signed a package of laws Wednesday at Springfield High School which in...
Apr 27, 2022 State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service (File)
Greater Peoria Honor Flight takes off again Thursday, and your support is needed
PEORIA, Ill. - A COVID-19-forced break for the Greater Peoria Honor Flight ends Thursday. That's when 76 war veterans will get on a plane and spend the day in Washington, D.C. -- the first of four tri...
Apr 27, 2022 Phyllis Piraino (Julia Bradley/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Rivermen prepare for SPHL Championship series
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Rivermen hockey team is headed to the President's Cup Finals. Rivermen Head Coach Jean-Guy Trudel told WMBD's "The Greg and Dan Show", getting the team he wanted this season...
Apr 27, 2022 (Peoria Rivermen Hockey)
Biden praises 'force of nature' Madeleine Albright at funeral
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden called former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright a "force of nature" on Wednesday at a memorial service attended by former presidents in honor of the first...
Apr 27, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives for the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, April 27, 2019. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan/File Photo
More than half of Americans have had COVID infections -U.S. study
(Reuters) -Following the record surge in COVID-19 cases during the Omicron-driven wave, some 58% of the U.S. population overall and more than 75% of younger children have been infected with the corona...
Apr 27, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell/File Photo
American Trevor Reed released from Russia in prisoner swap
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -American Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine detained since 2019, was released from Russian detention on Wednesday in exchange for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was serv...
Apr 27, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. ex-Marine Trevor Reed, who was detained in 2019 and accused of assaulting police officers, gestures inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
SpaceX launches 'Crew 4' astronauts on flight to space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) -Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX launched four more astronauts to orbit on Wednesday, en route to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA, including a medical d...
Apr 27, 2022 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off carrying three NASA astronauts and one ESA astronaut on a six-month expedition to the International Space Station, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. April 27, 2022. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
