Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria County Board could consider first animal adoption fee hike in 11 years
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Board will soon be asked to, in some cases, double the adoption fees the county's Animal Protection Services can charge. PCAPS director Becky Spencer told the County B...
Oct 26, 2021 Peoria County via YouTube
New eating concept coming to Peoria's Keller Station
PEORIA, Ill. -- What is "The Noshery"? Becky and Darren Frye are breaking into the hospitality industry with the new concept of eating out in Peoria. "The Noshery" is part of a new food hall inside Ke...
Oct 26, 2021 (The Noshery--Facebook page)
Richwoods high school secretary out of a job for racist video
Peoria, Ill -- Embattled Richwoods High School secretary Courtney Lewis is now out of a job, but students did not appear satisfied during the Peoria Public School Board meeting Monday night. "Why is M...
Oct 26, 2021 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
PPD called to stabbing incident Tuesday morning
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police responded just after 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to reports of a stabbing in the area of Virginia and Wisconsin. Peoria Public Information Officer Semone Roth said the male victim ...
Oct 26, 2021 MWC-PPD
U.S. FDA advisers overwhelmingly endorse Pfizer/BioN-Tech vaccine for kids
(Reuters) - An expert panel on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to recommend the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorize the Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, sayi...
Oct 26, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A vial labelled with the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is seen in this illustration picture taken March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Defense claims Woodring is legally "insane" in murder trial
LEWISTOWN, Ill. -- The defense presented its case Monday in the trial of Nathan Woodring, who is accused in the fatal shooting of a Fulton County Sheriff's deputy in 2019. Woodring is facing two count...
Oct 26, 2021
U.S. billionaire tax proposal seems to unite Democrats - but will it work?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A first-of-its-kind proposal from Democratic lawmakers to tax U.S. billionaires on the assets they own is expected to face challenges from the super-rich, and be tough to implem...
Oct 26, 2021 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol dome is seen in Washington, U.S., December 17, 2020. REUTERS/Erin Scott
Arson suspected in Monday night fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Arson appears to be the cause of a fire Monday night in Peoria's East Bluff. The fire was reported around 9:15 p.m. in the 2200 block of N. Delaware. Firefighters arrived, finding smok...
Oct 26, 2021 Midwest Communications
Jeanie Cyr, wife of Peoria City Councilman Denis Cyr, passes away
PEORIA, Ill. - A longtime figure in the Peoria community, and wife of a local elected official, passed away in recent days. An obituary from the Deiters Funeral Home says Jeanie Cyr passed away Thursd...
Oct 25, 2021 From Gary Deiters Funeral Home
Pritzker: State will be ready if FDA approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children this week
CHICAGO, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker sas the state will be ready, if the Food and Drug Administration approves a version of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for five- to eleven-year-olds. Pritzker...
Oct 25, 2021 State of Illinois
