Category Archives: Top Stories
Midwest Food Bank helps Ukraine
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria-based Midwest Food Bank and another agency are working together to send some help to the people of Ukraine. The food bank and "Convoy of Hope" are sending 240,000 servings of...
Mar 22, 2022 (25 News)
Pekin City Council discusses police and fire budgets
PEKIN, Ill. - Not long Monday after the City of Pekin honored first responders who helped save the life of a drowning four-year-old boy, one city council member looked at things differently. "It's kin...
Mar 22, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
U.S., Europe to announce new sanctions on Russia when Biden visits Brussels
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will join allies in applying additional sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and tightening existing ones during his trip to Europe this...
Mar 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden discusses the United States' response to Russian invasion of Ukraine and warns CEOs about potential cyber attacks from Russia at Business Roundtable's CEO Quarterly Meeting in Washington, DC, U.S., March 21, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Bradley Women's Basketball coach retiring
PEORIA, Ill. - A Bradley University alum who came back to the school to coach the women's basketball team is calling it a career. Coach Andrea Gorski announced her retirement Tuesday after 25 years of...
Mar 22, 2022 (Bradley University)
Ex-Russian state TV reporter: I quit over Ukraine war
PARIS (Reuters) - Zhanna Agalakova, until her resignation this month a journalist with Russia's state-controlled Channel One broadcaster, said on Tuesday she quit in protest at the war being waged by ...
Mar 22, 2022 Russian journalist Zhanna Agalakova looks on as she attends an interview with Reuters, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Paris, France, March 22, 2022. REUTERS/Noemie Olive
Peoria Symphony Orchestra hires new leader
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Symphony Orchestra has hired a new Executive Director, Anthony Marotta, who will officially begin leading the orchestra on Tuesday, April 26. Marotta has worked for the Boul...
Mar 22, 2022 Peoria Symphony Orchestra/Ernest Rawlins Photography
U.S. Supreme Court pick Jackson rejects Republican criticism on crime
UPDATED 11:55 a.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, on Tuesday rejected Republican claims that she has been overly lenient toward some cri...
Mar 22, 2022 Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, as her husband Patrick Jackson listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 22, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Miami Beach declares curfew after spate of gun violence
(Reuters) - The city of Miami Beach declared a curfew from Thursday until Monday in response to gun violence and raucous spring break crowds that have stretched public services beyond their capacity t...
Mar 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A police vehicle is seen next to people enjoying spring break, ahead of an 8pm curfew imposed by local authorities amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S., March 27, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo
White House warns U.S. companies about 'preparatory' Russian hacking
(Reuters) - Senior White House cybersecurity official Anne Neuberger said on Monday that important U.S. companies that provide critical infrastructure should improve their cyber defensive posture beca...
Mar 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 2, 2021. REUTERS/Al Drago/File Photo
Eastern Europe struggles to cope as Ukraine refugee exodus hits 3.5 million
WARSAW/BUCHAREST (Reuters) - More than 3.5 million people have fled abroad from the war in Ukraine, United Nations data showed on Tuesday, leaving Eastern Europe scrambling to provide them with care, ...
Mar 22, 2022 A nun comforts a woman after fleeing from Ukraine to Romania, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the border crossing in Siret, Romania, March 21, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
