Category Archives: Top Stories
Blippi becomes highest-grossing family show to play Civic Center Theater
PEORIA, Ill. -- Children's YouTube sensation, Blippi, became the highest grossing family show to play the Peoria Civic Center Theater in the venue's History after a sold out show Friday night. Blippi'...
Sep 25, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
PPS holds town hall to address school violence
PEORIA, Ill. -- Parents and students had a chance Friday night to share their concerns and solutions after violent fights at Peoria High School last week. The Peoria Public Schools town hall meeting g...
Sep 25, 2021 (25 News)
Biden will not invoke executive privilege on Trump records in Jan. 6 probe -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will not invoke executive privilege to shield former President Donald Trump's records in relation to an investigation into the deadly attack on the U.S. Capi...
Sep 24, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines and booster shots in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 24, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
U.S. border camp closed, Haitians there face mixed fates
DEL RIO, Texas (Reuters) -An impromptu border camp that roiled U.S. politics was emptied of thousands of Haitian migrants by Friday, with most remaining in the United States for now and others expelle...
Sep 24, 2021 A U.S. Border Patrol agent on a raft holds a migrant child as seen from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, September 23, 2021. REUTERS/Go Nakamura
Pritzker signs legislative remapping into law
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he's signed the new legislative maps into law that the General Assembly approved during the summer. In a news release Friday, Pritzker -- who did...
Sep 24, 2021 Will Stevenson/1470-100.3 WMBD
CDC director says she overruled advisers on boosters to protect workers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said on Friday she overruled the agency's advisory committee vote against approving Pfizer/BioNTech CO...
Sep 24, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 20, 2021. J. Scott Applewhite/Pool via REUTERS
Rally to address racism Saturday in Tremont
PEORIA, Ill. - Megan Rahn wants answers when it comes to race and race relations in the area. That's why she and others have organized a rally happening Saturday at 4pm in Tremont's City Park. Rahn te...
Sep 24, 2021 From www.tremontil.com
South Side Mission bringing new store to South Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- South Side Mission has served Peoria's 61605 neighborhoods since 1925, but they'll offer even more help starting next year. South Side Mission's Executive Director, Rev. Craig Williams...
Sep 24, 2021 (South Side Mission Facebook)
Gabby Petito's boyfriend charged with using her bank card; arrest warrant issued
(Reuters) -Gabby Petito's boyfriend, whom police have sought for six days in connection with the 22-year-old travel blogger's death during their cross-country road trip, was charged on Thursday with f...
Sep 24, 2021 Gabrielle Petito, 22, who was reported missing on September 11, 2021 after traveling with her boyfriend around the country in a van and never returned home, poses for a photo with Brian Laundrie in this undated handout photo. North Port/Florida Police/Handout via REUTERS
Trump allies Bannon, Meadows subpoenaed in Congress' probe of Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol has subpoenaed four former members of Donald Trump's administration, includ...
Sep 24, 2021 FILE PHOTO: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks to reporters following a television interview, outside the White House in Washington, U.S. October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Al Drago/File Photo
