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Action on 'Spirit of Peoria' deferred by council
PEORIA, Ill. -- City leaders in Peoria won't allow the sale of the Spirit of Peoria riverboat just yet. "Cast your ballots please on the deferral. Motion passes unanimously," said Mayor Rita Ali. The ...
Mar 09, 2022 (25 News)
Shaun Livingston, others to be inducted in to Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame
PEORIA, Ill. - A champion pro basketball player and Peoria native is one of the newest inductees into the Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame. Kirk Wessler, former Peoria Journal Star sports editor and...
Mar 08, 2022 Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame
Expert: No president is mostly responsible for high gas prices
PEORIA, Ill. - A Bradley University professor says there are some myths about just what is causing high gas and oil prices. One of them, Assistant Economics Professor Colin Corbett says, is that the P...
Mar 08, 2022 Mike Mozart / CC
Kasper: "We're moving out of this phase where 'everything is COVID'"
PEORIA, Ill. -- He says, "it's become more likely that regular seasonal things will become what people have rather than COVID." Dr. Doug Kasper, with the University of Illinois School of Medicine, spo...
Mar 08, 2022 Midwest Communications
Masking in state house legislative chambers in Springfield now optional
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- One Central Illinois Republican lawmaker is celebrating a new mask-optional policy now in place at the State House of Representatives in Springfield. State Representative Adam Nie...
Mar 08, 2022 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Triple A: Average gas prices jump another 15 cents overnight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Gas prices in Central Illinois continued steep increases from Monday into Tuesday. According to Triple A, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded in the Peoria-Pekin metro i...
Mar 08, 2022 Midwest Communications
Former Proud Boys chairman Tarrio arrested on U.S. Capitol riot conspiracy charge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The former chairman of the U.S. right-wing group the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, was arrested on Tuesday on a conspiracy charge for his alleged role in plotting the Jan. 6, 2021,...
Mar 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio speaks to members of the media as he leaves the D.C. Central Detention Facility where he had been held since September 2021, in Washington, U.S., January 14, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
U.S. trade deficit hits record high in January
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. trade deficit widened to a record high in January amid a surge in imports, potentially setting up trade to remain a drag on economic growth in the first quarter. The Com...
Mar 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Stacked containers are shown as ships unload their cargo at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, U.S. November 22, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Biden bans Russia oil imports to U.S., warns U.S. gasoline prices will rise further
UPDATED 10:47 A. M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden announced a ban on Russian oil and other energy imports on Tuesday in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, underscoring strong bi...
Mar 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden departs the Oval Office at the White House for the weekend, in Washington, DC, U.S., March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Metamora Redbirds advance to the IHSA state semifinals
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Metamora Redbirds earned their first ever trip to the basketball state finals Monday night beating Wheaton St. Francis in the Class 3A Boys Basketball Ottawa Super Sectional 60-44....
Mar 08, 2022 (25 News)
