Category Archives: Top Stories
Analyst: Fertilizer, natural gas costs still concern farmers
PEORIA, Ill. - As if farmers didn't have enough to worry about with the pandemic, soybean prices not being what they could be, and the supply chain situation, there's one more thing they'll be keeping...
Dec 05, 2021
Biden and Putin set to talk about Ukraine in video call on Tuesday
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a video call on Tuesday, with the two leaders set to discuss the tense situation in Ukraine. "Bide...
Dec 05, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia's President Vladimir Putin meet for the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Pool
Parents of Michigan school shooting suspect plead not guilty to manslaughter charges
(Reuters) -A Michigan judge set bail at $500,000 each for the parents of a teenager accused of murdering four fellow high school students with a weapon the couple bought him as a Christmas gift, after...
Dec 05, 2021 Ethan Robert Crumbley, 15, charged with first-degree murder in a high school shooting, poses in a jail booking photograph taken at the Oakland County Jail in Pontiac, Michigan, U.S. December 1, 2021, in a combination photograph with his parents Jennifer Lynn Crumbley and James Robert Crumbley who were taken into custody December 3, 2021. Oakland County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. THIS PICTURE WAS PROCESSED BY REUTERS TO ENHANCE QUALITY. AN UNPROCESSED VERSION HAS BEEN PROVIDED SEPARATELY
CNN fires anchor Chris Cuomo over role in brother ex-governor's sex scandal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -CNN fired news anchor Chris Cuomo, the network announced on Saturday, after "additional information" came to light during an investigation into his efforts to help his brother, f...
Dec 05, 2021 FILE PHOTO: CNN's Chris Cuomo during a televised townhall with Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) dedicated to LGBTQ issues in Los Angeles, California, U.S. October 10, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Accused East Bluff killer and arsonist gets $2M bond
Peoria, Ill -- A man blamed for this week's house-fire-turned-homicide in Peoria's East Bluff will remain jailed on $2 million bond. 28-year-old Tahir Goodman went up for a bond hearing on Friday. He'...
Dec 04, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail
Parents of suspected Michigan school shooter, themselves wanted, taken into custody
(Reuters) -The parents of a Michigan teenager accused of murdering four fellow high school students were taken into custody on Saturday, a day after each was charged with four counts of involuntary ma...
Dec 04, 2021 Photographs of James and Jennifer Crumbley, who had been scheduled for arraignment on four counts of manslaughter after authorities say their son Ethan, 15, carried out the deadliest U.S. school shooting of 2021 in Oxford, Michigan, U.S., are seen in these undated handout photos released by police on December 3, 2021. Oakland County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
Semi Trailer fire caused by accident with motorcycle
UPDATED 4:25 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The back of a semi trailer in front of the Peoria Riverfront Museum, near the intersection with Liberty St., was on fire following an accident Friday afternoon. Peoria...
Dec 03, 2021 25 News
Details released regarding Auditor's Office spending
PEORIA, Ill. - We're learning more about spending by Peoria County Auditor Jessica Thomas that the State's Attorney is calling into question. The County Board cut Thomas' budget and staff for 2022, an...
Dec 03, 2021 Jessica Thomas (WMBD/Peoria County)
GoFundMe page started for woman strangled & left for dead in Peoria's East Bluff
UPDATED 4:18 p.m. PEORIA, Ill -- A GoFundMe page is now posted to help the family of a woman reportedly strangled to death and then burned in Peoria's East Bluff this week. You'll remember the case in...
Dec 03, 2021
Vaccine makers could make Omicron-specific booster, says Fauci
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -COVID-19 vaccine makers have contingency plans to deal with the Omicron variant that include a combination vaccine against the original version and the variant as well as a varia...
Dec 03, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A syringe is filled with a dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up community vaccination center at the Gateway World Christian Center in Valley Stream, New York, U.S., February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
