Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria budget includes more police officers
PEORIA, Ill. - Some of the solutions to the city of Peoria's ongoing violence problems -- or at least the path to them -- may come from the City of Peoria's budget for the next two years. For one, the...
Oct 21, 2021 MWC-Peoria Police Media Release
U.S. Democrats near deal on price tag for Biden's social bill, Manchin says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats are close to agreeing on an overall price tag for U.S. President Joe Biden's ambitious expansion of social programs, centrist Senator Joe Manchin said on Thursday, tho...
Oct 21, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) faces reporters outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 30, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Rivermen hockey returns for a 40th season this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- As of Friday, it will have been 593 days since the Peoria Rivermen hockey team has played a game. The team's games Friday and Saturday night open the Rivermen's 40th season in Peoria a...
Oct 21, 2021 (Peoria Rivermen Hockey)
U.S. weekly jobless claims hit 19-month low; labor market recovery gains traction
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits dropped to a 19-month low last week, pointing to a tightening labor market, though a shortage of workers coul...
Oct 21, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Construction workers wait in line to do a temperature test to return to the job site after lunch, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 10, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Biden pushes infrastructure in Pennsylvania as Democrats try to seal deal
SCRANTON, Pa. (Reuters) - With his economic agenda hanging in the balance, President Joe Biden on Wednesday visited the Pennsylvania city of his birth to push infrastructure and spending plans he said...
Oct 21, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) to Marine One as they depart for Scranton, Pennsylvania, from the White House in Washington, U.S., October 20, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Former U.S. president Donald Trump launches 'TRUTH' social media platform
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump will launch his own social media app, TRUTH Social, that he said would "stand up to Big Tech" companies such as Twitter and Facebook that have...
Oct 21, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Iowa States Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., October 9, 2021. REUTERS/Rachel Mummey
Top Democrat floats debt ceiling increase end-around as legislative fight looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday said he would support allowing the U.S. Treasury secretary to unilaterally extend the limit on federal borrowing, w...
Oct 20, 2021 A visitor runs around the Washington Monument near the U.S. Capitol at dawn, in Washington, U.S., September 29, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
U.S. FDA clears Moderna and J&J boosters, backs 'mix-and-match' strategy
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Inc and Johnson & Johnson, and said Americans can choose a different sh...
Oct 20, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines are seen at Northwell Health's South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, New York, U.S., March 3, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Attempted murder charge filed against man in early-October police standoff
PEORIA, Ill. - New charges are filed in the case of a Peoria man who caused a police standoff earlier in the month. Our news partner 25 News reports Lamarcus Chappell, 30, will be arraigned Thursday o...
Oct 20, 2021 Lamarcus Chappell (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Doctor: COVID or not, substance abuse continues to be a problem, but treatment is available
PEORIA, Ill. - A local doctor says the addictions and substance use he sees and helps treat have only been made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. Doctor Robert Lizer is the Medical Director of UnityPoin...
Oct 20, 2021 (25 News)
