Category Archives: Top Stories
Appeals court weighs release of immigration detainees to electronic monitoring
Article Summary The Chicago-based 7th Circuit Court of Appeals is considering whether a lower court judge overstepped last month when he ordered the release of several hundred immigration detainees to...
Dec 02, 2025 The Dirksen Federal Courthouse is pictured in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Andrew Adams)
Peoria Riverfront Museum lights Christmas tree for 2025 season
PEORIA, Ill. - The lights of the Christmas season are shining brightly along Peoria's Riverfront Museum. A 75-foot Norway spruce tree adorned in more than 40-thousand lights was lit up for the first t...
Dec 02, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Home of Washington brewery on the market, business itself is not
WASHINGTON, Ill. - The home of a brewery in Washington is on the market. The building that houses Tangled Roots Brewery Company is being listed for sale by McColly Real Estate, for a price tag of $5.2...
Dec 02, 2025 (City of Washington--Facebook page)
Car fire occurs in front of Morton's Grundy School during the end of the school day
MORTON, Ill. - There were no reported injuries after a car fire Tuesday afternoon in front of Morton's Grundy School. In a statement from Morton District 709, the fire occurred just after 2:45 P.M. in...
Dec 02, 2025 (Morton School District Unit 709)
Pritzker signs bill allowing Illinois to issue state-specific vaccine guidelines
Article Summary Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill allowing the Illinois Department of Public Health to issue vaccine guidance independent of federal guidelines. It broadens IDPH's scope to consider the a...
Dec 02, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker signs House Bill 767 at a Dec. 2 news conference in Chicago. He said the bill will protect Illinoisians using science-backed guidelines, rather than “junk science” used by the federal administration under the guidance of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (CNI photo by Maggie Dougherty)
Peoria Fire honors for efforts to install smoke detectors in homes
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Fire Department is celebrating a significant safety milestone. The department was honored Tuesday morning by the Illinois Fire Safety Alliance for installing 1,000 free smoke...
Dec 02, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Washington shooting suspect charged with murder, ordered held in jail
WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The suspect accused of shooting two National Guard members in an ambush in downtown Washington, D.C., last week was charged on Tuesday with murder and other offenses as h...
Dec 02, 2025 A makeshift memorial at the site of a shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2025. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz
Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon
WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, who has cast himself as a relentless foe of illegal drugs, pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, freeing him from a 45-year s...
Dec 02, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Honduras former President Juan Orlando Hernandez is escorted by authorities as he walks towards a plane of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for his extradition to the United States, to face a trial on drug trafficking and arms possession charges, at the Hernan Acosta Mejia Air Force base in Tegucigalpa, Honduras April 21, 2022. REUTERS/Fredy Rodriguez/ File Photo
Residents and their pets rescued from Peoria fire Tuesday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - Faulty electrical equipment appears to be to blame for a fire in Peoria Tuesday morning that caused $25,000 damage and sent one person to the hospital. Battalion Chief Josh Maroney said...
Dec 02, 2025 1470&100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Putin meets Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner in Kremlin to discuss Ukraine peace
MOSCOW, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin met U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner in the Kremlin on Tuesday for talks on a possible ...
Dec 02, 2025 Russian President Vladimir Putin, presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev and foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov attend a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, December 2, 2025. Sputnik/Kristina Kormilitsyna/Pool via REUTERS
