Category Archives: Top Stories
Pritzker: I met with federal prosecutors investigating Madigan
DeKALB, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker continuing to answer questions now that former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has been charged with racketeering and bribery. During an event Thursday to to...
Mar 03, 2022 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy (file)
Ukraine and Russia agree on evacuation corridors as U.S. punishes oligarchs
BORODYANKA/LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine agreed on Thursday to the need for humanitarian corridors to help civilians escape Moscow's eight-day-old invasion, the first apparent progress ...
Mar 03, 2022 A woman pushes her bicycle after fleeing from Russia's invasion of Ukraine arrives at the border crossing in Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania, March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Pressure grows on Biden to ban U.S. imports of Russian oil
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill on Thursday to ban U.S. imports of Russian oil, saying the shipments could be replaced by boosting output in North America ...
Mar 03, 2022 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) chide Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) for his phone ringing at the start of a news conference to introduce a bill to ban Russian energy imports, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Jury clears Louisville detective in Breonna Taylor raid
(Reuters) - A Kentucky jury on Thursday acquitted a white former detective of endangering neighbors of Breonna Taylor during a botched nighttime raid that killed the Black woman in her home, clearing ...
Mar 03, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former Louisville police detective Brett Hankison poses for a booking photograph at Shelby County Detention Center in Shelbyville, Kentucky, U.S. September 23, 2020. Shelby County Detention Center/Handout via REUTERS
Sheriffs Department admits mistaken release of alleged 'sexual predator'
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Sheriffs Department now admits that a mistake was made leading to the public being asked to help locate a missing man deemed an alleged sexual predator. 25 News report...
Mar 03, 2022 (Peoria County Sheriffs Department)
Rivian spares preorders from price hike to fix 'painful' mistake
(Reuters) - Rivian Automotive Inc has rolled back price hikes on electric vehicles booked before March 1, days after facing backlash from customers following a 20% increase in prices. Preorders as of ...
Mar 03, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The company logo is seen on a Rivian R1T pickup, the Amazon-backed electric vehicle (EV) maker, as it is parked outside the Nasdaq Market site during the company’s IPO in Times Square in New York City, U.S., November 10, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/
Peoria-area lawmakers react to Madigan indictment
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Republican and Democrat politicians alike in Illinois have had their own political corruption problems and criminal probes over the years. But, State Representative Ryan Spain plac...
Mar 03, 2022 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Pritzker promises new fight against corruption following Madigan indictments
UPDATED 10:29 a.m. Governor J.B. Pritzker is making a new pledge to lead a new fight against corruption in Illinois state government. His statements come after news of federal corruption related charg...
Mar 03, 2022 REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
Peoria home goes up in flames on W. Krause
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria emergency crews responded to a residential fire in the area of W. Krause Avenue and W. Seibold Street early Thursday morning. Firefighters found heavy smoke and fire on the uppe...
Mar 03, 2022 Midwest Communications
Lavrov says Russia will continue Ukraine war till 'the end'
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday he believed some foreign leaders were preparing for war against Russia and that Moscow would press on with its military opera...
Mar 03, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting with Syria's Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad in Moscow, Russia February 21, 2022. Alexander Nemenov /Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
