Category Archives: Top Stories
Bustos: Peoria Headstart receives $3.6 million grant
PEORIA, Ill. -- Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (IL-17) announced on Thursday that the Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity, Inc. will receive $3.6 million in federal grant money for the city...
Mar 24, 2022 Baltimore County Government
N.Korea tests largest ICBM, White House condemns return to long-range launches
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea conducted what is thought to be its largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test ever on Thursday, the South Korean and Japanese militaries said, marking a drama...
Mar 24, 2022 FILE PHOTO: REUTERS/Edgar Su
COVID pandemic fuelled 2021 population drop in 73% of U.S. counties
(Reuters) - The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic was reflected in a natural decrease last year in the population of nearly three-quarters of U.S. counties versus the two previous years, the census bureau...
Mar 24, 2022 Children are seen walking to school, on the first day of lifting the indoor mask mandate for DOE schools between K through 12, in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S., March 7, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Senior Democrat decries Republican attacks on U.S. Supreme Court pick Jackson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee's Democratic chairman on Thursday decried Republican attacks on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearing w...
Mar 24, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies on the third day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. U.S., March 23, 2022. Jabin Botsford/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
IDPH closing down community-based COVID testing sites
PEKIN, Ill. -- Illinois' community-based COVID-19 testing sites will be closing at the end of the month. According to a press release from Reditus Labs, the decision to close the sites starting March ...
Mar 24, 2022 Midwest Communications
PPD makes arrest in midday shooting
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called to the area of NE Perry and Wayne just after 12:30 p.m. Wednesday on a ShotSpotter alert indicating multiple shots were fired. No victim was found at the scen...
Mar 24, 2022 (Peoria Co. Jail)
IL House passes bill to use federal funds to lower unemployment insurance debt
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois House Democrats Wednesday night passed SB2803. It's a plan to appropriate $2.7 billion from the American Rescue Plan toward the unemployment fund to address the state's c...
Mar 24, 2022 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Reports: Reditus CEO missed court date in civil suit
PEKIN, Ill. - The CEO of Pekin-based Reditus Labs allegedly missed a court date in the lawsuit filed against him by his former business partner. 25 News reports Aaron Rossi was a no-show Wednesday at ...
Mar 23, 2022 (Reditus Labs)
Pritzker blames Republicans for rejection of Prisoner Review Board nominee
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker is accusing the opposite party, in an election year, of playing politics with one of his recommended appointments to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. Of six...
Mar 23, 2022 (File-State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service)
Biden lands in Europe in middle of dispute over Russian energy sanctions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden landed in Brussels on Wednesday in the middle of a dispute with European allies over whether to impose further energy sanctions on Russia over its invasion...
Mar 23, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden walks to board Marine One, before traveling to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for the weekend, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 18, 2022. REUTERS/Al Drago/File Photo
