Category Archives: Top Stories
U.S. Senate passes $770 billion defense bill, Biden's signature next
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday for a version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, that authorizes $770 billion in defense spending - $25 billio...
Dec 15, 2021 A security camera can be seen near the U.S. Capitol building as the sun sets in Washington, U.S., November 29, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/Files
State to sell James R. Thompson Center in Chicago
CHICAGO, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is going to do something predecessors tried -- and failed to do as a means to make the state some money: sell the James R. Thompson Center in downtown Chi...
Dec 15, 2021 ajay_suresh / CC
'Don't hesitate to ask for anything,' Biden tells tornado-ravaged Kentucky
MAYFIELD, Ky. (Reuters) - President Joe Biden walked through the battered remains of Mayfield, Kentucky, on Wednesday to get a first-hand view of the destruction wrought by one of the deadliest tornad...
Dec 15, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with local leaders and members of Kentucky Emergency Management for a briefing about storm damage from the tornadoes and extreme weather, in Mayfield, Kentucky, U.S., December 15, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Court ruling means vaccine mandates are back for many health care workers in Illinois
(Reuters) -A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday revived in 26 states a Biden administration COVID-19 mandate requiring millions of U.S. healthcare workers to get vaccinated if they work in federa...
Dec 15, 2021 Midwest Communications
Better Banks officially acquires Glasford bank
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria-area bank is adding a new location in Peoria County. Better Banks -- founded in Dunlap more than 120 years ago -- says it has acquired Glasford Bank. Glasford Bank was part of ...
Dec 15, 2021 Better Banks
Additional charge for man accused of killing infant
PEORIA, Ill. - Another murder charge is being given to a Peoria man charged with shaking and killing a baby a month ago. Peoria County court records indicate Zachary Yeo, 23, now faces a second count ...
Dec 15, 2021 Zachary Yeo (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Police called as 'precaution' following fights at Richwoods
PEORIA, Ill. - We're learning more about what turns out to be two separate incidents at Peoria's Richwoods High School Wednesday morning that resulted in the police being involved. Police were first c...
Dec 15, 2021 25 News
Accused arsonist and murderer formally charged
PEORIA, Ill. - Murder charges are officially being filed against the Peoria man accused of strangling a woman to death and setting her house on fire earlier this month. Court records indicate Tahir Go...
Dec 15, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail
Collins: Damaging winds possible with Wind Advisory
PEORIA, Ill. -- There's a threat of damaging winds in the Peoria area Wednesday night. News partner 25 News Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins says that winds will continue to get stronger as the day p...
Dec 15, 2021 Midwest Communications
Derek Chauvin expected to change plea to guilty in George Floyd civil rights case
(Reuters) - White former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday in a federal court in Minnesota to charges that he violated George Floyd's civil rights durin...
Dec 15, 2021 Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens to his mother Carolyn Pawlenty deliver a statement to the judge as he awaits his sentencing for murder in the death of George Floyd during a sentencing hearing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. June 25, 2021 in a still image from video. Pool via REUTERS/Files
