Category Archives: Top Stories
Dry Christmas trees can lead to dangerous house fires
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. -- With several types of Christmas trees out on the market, many people still choose to display real firs or pines. When picking out a live tree, Peoria Heights Fire Chief, Greg W...
Dec 09, 2019 Midwest Communications
Country-Bluegrass star Alison Krauss to perform in Peoria next spring
PEORIA, Ill. -- County-Bluegrass singer and musician Alison Krauss will make a stop in Peoria next spring. The Peoria Civic Center announced Monday morning that Krauss will perform there on on Sunday,...
Dec 09, 2019 Alison Krauss performs at Loretta Lynn's 87th Birthday Tribute at Bridgestone Arena on Monday, April 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Al Wagner/Invision/AP)
Country star Travis Tritt to perform in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Civic Center announced Monday morning that County music star Travis Tritt is scheduled to perform in the Civic Center Theater on Thursday, May 14. Travis Tritt has been dubb...
Dec 09, 2019 Travis Tritt performs at Charlie Daniels 80th Birthday Volunteer Jam at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov, 30, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
Judiciary hearing sets stage for impeachment charges
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pushing ahead with articles of impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee convenes Monday to formally receive the investigative findings against President Donald Trump as the White H...
Dec 09, 2019 Constitutional law experts, from left, Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman, Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan, University of North Carolina Law School professor Michael Gerhardt and George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley, are sworn in to testify during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Caroll Spinney, voice of Sesame Street's Big Bird, dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ironically the day "Sesame Street" received its Kennedy Center Honor, the man who gave voice to two of the most popular characters on the children's TV series has died. The Sesame W...
Dec 09, 2019 Caroll Spinney with 'Big Bird' during Florida Supercon at the Broward County Convention Center on Friday, July 13, 2018 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Photo by Michele Eve Sandberg/Invision/AP).
Car crashes into East Peoria OSF Urgo location
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- A vehicle crashed Sunday morning into the East Peoria OSF Urgo location, at 133 Spinder Drive in the Levee District. East Peoria Police said a 22-year-old woman, who was feeling i...
Dec 09, 2019
Federal officials reviewing Wrigley Field wheelchair access
CHICAGO (AP) -- Federal officials are investigating whether the Chicago Cubs' ongoing $1 billion renovation of Wrigley Field provides adequate wheelchair access. The Cubs have filed notice of the revi...
Dec 08, 2019 AP Photo/LM Otero
Update: Base shooter watched shooting videos before attack
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- A U.S. official says the Saudi student who fatally shot three people at a Florida naval base had hosted a dinner party earlier in the week to watch videos of mass shootings. Th...
Dec 07, 2019 AP Photo/Brendan Farrington
Ceremony commemorates 78th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) - Survivors and members of the public are expected to gather in Pearl Harbor to remember those killed when Japanese planes bombed the Hawaii naval base 78 years ago and launc...
Dec 07, 2019 The USS Arizona Memorial can be seen from the Pearl Harbor National Memorial Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, in Honolulu. A U.S. sailor shot and wounded several civilian Department of Defense employees at the Pearl Harbor shipyard Wednesday before taking their own life, the military said. The shipyard is across the harbor from the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
Naval base shooter investigated for possible terrorism links
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - US officials investigating the deadly attack by a Saudi aviation student at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida are trying to determine whether it was motivated by terror...
Dec 07, 2019 AP Photo/Melissa Nelson
