Category Archives: Top Stories
LaHood: Powell was an "outstanding American"
PEORIA, Ill. - Former Congressman and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he was always impressed with former Secretary of State, General Colin Powell. Powell died Monday from complications due t...
Oct 18, 2021 1470 100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
Biden administration asks U.S. Supreme Court to block Texas abortion law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden's administration on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on abortion after a lower court reinstated the Repu...
Oct 18, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A supporter of reproductive rights holds a sign outside the Texas State Capitol building during the nationwide Women's March, held after Texas rolled out a near-total ban on abortion procedures and access to abortion-inducing medications, in Austin, Texas, U.S. October 2, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Pritzker: Abortions, electric vehicles could come up during Fall Veto Session
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker has some definite things he'd like to see taken care of when the fall veto session begins in Springfield Tuesday. Pritzker made an amendatory veto to what was ...
Oct 18, 2021 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
U.S. Supreme Court again protects police accused of excessive force
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday signaled that it is not retreating from its inclination to grant a legal protection called "qualified immunity" to police accused in lawsuits of using exces...
Oct 18, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S. June 25, 2021. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
Ex- joint chiefs of staff Powell dies of COVID complications -Facebook post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Colin Powell, the first black U.S. secretary of state and top military officer, died on Monday at the age of 84 from COVID-19 complications, his family said in a statement. "He ...
Oct 18, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Army Four Star General and former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks at the funeral for the late U.S. Army Four Star General H. Norman Schwarzkopf at the Cadet Chapel at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, February 28, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Congress still debating Biden's spending bills
WASHINGTON, D.C. (FOX NEWS) -- Congress is still debating the $1.2 trillion "Hard Infrastructure" bill already passed by the Senate, as well as the proposed $3.5 trillion "Human Infrastructure Reconci...
Oct 18, 2021 mwc
Fatal crash on I-74 Sunday morning
KNOX COUNTY, Ill. -- Illinois State Police say a man was killed and another man was injured in a head-on collision on I-74 early Sunday morning. The crash happened around 4:25 a.m., near mile marker 5...
Oct 18, 2021 Midwest Communications
Peoria's 25th homicide victim of 2021 identified
UPDATE - PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Coroner has identified the victim of a Friday night homicide, Peoria's 25th homicide victim this year. Marteil Robinson, 31, of North Street in Peoria suffere...
Oct 17, 2021 (25 News)
Three of four Peoria fires in less than 24 hours caused by arson
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters responded to four house fires between 6:13 a.m. Saturday and 4:23 a.m. Sunday. Three of the fires were determined to be caused by arson. The latest blaze sent firefi...
Oct 17, 2021 Midwest Communications
Hollywood film-crew union reaches tentative deal, averting strike
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A union that represents about 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers in film and television reached a tentative deal with producers on Saturday, averting a strike that threatened to ...
Oct 17, 2021 FILE PHOTO: REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
