Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria's April temps match 30 year normal for Minneapolis, Minnesota
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois' state climatologist confirms what many state residents have probably already guessed and what many local meteorologists have buzzed about for days. It's been a very wet ...
Apr 22, 2022 AP Photo/Orlin Wagner
Philadelphia to end indoor mask mandate days after imposing it
(Reuters) - Philadelphia is ending its indoor mask mandate, health officials said late on Thursday, reversing its decision just days after imposing the order. The Board of Health (BOH) voted on Thursd...
Apr 22, 2022 A customer dines at a restaurant as the indoor mask mandate is reinstated to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., April 18, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier
Mistrial declared in Peoria homicide case
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria County jury was deadlocked Thursday after two days of deliberating the case of a man charged in a fatal shooting last year. Judge Kevin Lyons declared a mistrial for Orlando A...
Apr 22, 2022 Peoria Police Department
Saying goodbye to Peoria's oldest fire station
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters celebrated the history and memories within the oldest fire station in the River City on Thursday. Fire Station 4 opened in 1952 and is expected to close next month....
Apr 22, 2022 (25 News)
Russia pushes offensive, collects corpses in 'liberated' Mariupol
KYIV/MARIUPOL (Reuters) -Russia pressed its new offensive in eastern Ukraine on Friday while in the port city of Mariupol, teams of volunteers collected corpses from the ruins after Moscow declared vi...
Apr 22, 2022 Service members of pro-Russian troops, including fighters of the Chechen special forces unit, stand in front of the destroyed administration building of Azovstal Iron and Steel Works during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 21, 2022. REUTERS/Chingis Kondarov
On Earth Day, climate activists rally against fossil fuels
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Climate change campaigners kicked off a wave of protests for Earth Day on Friday, pushing demands such as an immediate halt to European imports of Russian oil and gas and an end to...
Apr 22, 2022 An activist places a placard outside the Ministry of Investment's office, during a rally called "Investment for the Earth, not Oligarchy," asking the government to choose sustainable investment to mark Earth Day, in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 22, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
Former Peoria school will be torn down, thanks to federal money
UPDATED 8:17 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. - The federal government is giving out money that will help Peoria tear down a former school that's become an eyesore. $1 million in Community Project Funding money is g...
Apr 21, 2022 (File-City of Peoria via Facebook)
American 'Ghost' drones for Ukraine designed for attack, Pentagon says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newly disclosed "Ghost" drones that are part of America's latest arms package for Ukraine were developed by the U.S. Air Force for attacking targets and are destroyed after a si...
Apr 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The Pentagon is seen from the air in Washington, U.S., March 3, 2022, more than a week after Russia invaded Ukraine. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
Governor: State's bond rating improved again
CHICAGO, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker says for the third time in the last few years, the state has done something it hadn't done in the two decades prior: improve its financial rating. Moody's has once...
Apr 21, 2022 MWC (file)
Beam signed by cancer survivors to be placed on new OSF Cancer Institute
PEORIA, Ill. - The last piece of steel to be placed on top of the still-under-construction OSF Cancer Institute in Peoria is ready to go, now that a number of people have put their mark on it. OSF Sai...
Apr 21, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
