Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria Rivermen continue strong start to season
EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- After suffering a shootout loss on Friday night, the Peoria Rivermen bounced back on Saturday night with a 3-2 win against the Evansville Thunderbolts. The Rivermen scored all thre...
Nov 17, 2019 Photo Credit: Peoria Rivermen
Cigarette starts mattress fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Fire and Rescue responded to an apartment fire Saturday morning at 4:30 at 2707 W. Trewyn. Upon arrival firefighters and paramedics found that the fire was isolated to a mattres...
Nov 16, 2019 Midwest Communications
Sunday marks the six year anniversary of the Washington tornado
WASHINGTON, Ill. -- Six years have passed since a series of tornadoes tore through central Illinois. Washington was the hardest hit. The twister ripped through the town on Sunday morning Nov. 17, 2013...
Nov 16, 2019 (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
Illinois unemployment rate remains at historical low
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) announced that nonfarm jobs increased to a record high of 1,900. The unemployment rate was unchanged at an historically low at...
Nov 15, 2019 (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Altman to receive Order of Lincoln
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A Pekin native has been named one of this year's recipients of the Order of Lincoln. Former NASA astronaut Scott Altman is one of six people who will be honored in April on the ca...
Nov 15, 2019 Terry Renna/AP Photo
The East Peoria Festival of Lights Parade kicks off Saturday night
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Many people will line the streets of East Peoria on Saturday night to see their favorite twinkling floats and special guests. Jill Peterson, Public Relations Coordinator for the C...
Nov 15, 2019 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Roger Stone to remain free pending sentencing
WASHINGTON (AP) - A judge says can Roger Stone can remain free pending his sentencing in February. Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejected prosecutors' request that Stone be jailed following his conviction ...
Nov 15, 2019 Roger Stone accompanied by his wife Nydia Stone, left, leaves federal court Washington, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Ousted US ambassador to testify in Trump impeachment probe
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House will hear from a singular witness Friday in the Trump impeachment hearings: Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was targeted by the president's all...
Nov 15, 2019 Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch walks to the hearing room to testify to the House Intelligence Committee, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, in the second public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Illinois state Senate President John Cullerton retiring
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Democratic state Senate President John Cullerton has announced he's stepping down from the Illinois Legislature. Cullerton said Thursday night in a statement, that his retirement ...
Nov 15, 2019 MWC- Cullerton Retires
Illinois Department of Health reports 4th vaping-related death
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health has reported the death of a fourth Illinois resident who had recently been hospitalized with lung injury associated with the use of e-ciga...
Nov 15, 2019 In this photo made on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, a woman uses her vaping device in Harmony, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
