Category Archives: Top Stories
Bus-2-Grid Initiative brings innovative electric school buses to Pekin
PEKIN, Ill. -- A new, first-of-its-kind electric bus was unveiled Tuesday in Pekin. The bus uses Nuuve's vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, the first in North America. The bus was delivered by BlueBird...
Mar 23, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Family escapes Peoria fire
PEORIA,Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called to the 900 block of West Russell Street Tuesday morning on reports of a residential fire. Battalion Chief Clint Kuhlman said crews arrived at approximate...
Mar 23, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
CAT's new video highlights need for new service techs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPpV-gQofMI PEORIA, Ill. -- Caterpillar Inc. has a new trial video out that highlights a need for service technicians. The earth-moving manufacturing company is using t...
Mar 23, 2021 (Courtesy of Caterpillar, Inc.)
Suspect faces 10 murder counts in Colorado grocery store mass shooting: authorities
BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) -A 21-year-old man faces 10 counts of murder in connection with Monday's mass shooting at a Colorado grocery store, authorities said on Tuesday. The suspect was in stable cond...
Mar 23, 2021 Law enforcement officers in tactical gear are seen at the site of a shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. March 22, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt
Illinois officials investigate racist post directed at Kofi Cockburn
INDIANAPOLIS -- University of Illinois' Kofi Cockburn is the second basketball player to say he faced racist comments on social media after his team's loss to Loyola Chicago on Sunday at the NCAA tour...
Mar 23, 2021 Midwest Communications
Expulsions, releases, hotels: Migrant families at U.S.-Mexico border face mixed U.S. policies
DEL RIO, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. officials are trying to drive home an increasingly emphatic message to the growing number of mostly Central American asylum seekers crossing the U.S.-Mexico border ever...
Mar 23, 2021 Stephanie, 10 months old, cries as she is carried by her father Manuel de Jesus Martinez, an asylum-seeking migrant from Honduras who was airlifted from Brownsville to El Paso, Texas, and deported from the U.S. with her, while waiting to be transferred to a shelter outside the office of the Center for Integral Attention to Migrants (CAIM) in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 18, 2021. Picture taken March 18, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
IEMA tells Illinoisans to prepare for earthquakes after one strikes Monday morning
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) is reminding Illinoisans to be prepared for earthquakes after one hit southern Illinois Monday morning. The earthquake was reported...
Mar 22, 2021
Former Lakers great Baylor dies aged 86
(Reuters) -- Former Minneapolis and Los Angeles Lakers forward Elgin Baylor died of natural causes at the age of 86 on Monday, the NBA franchise announced. Baylor, the number one draft pick in 1958 an...
Mar 22, 2021 REUTERS/Nikki Boertman (UNITED STATES)/File Photo
Local COVID roundup 3/22: Region continues to trend the wrong direction
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department Monday reported no new tri-county area deaths due to COVID-19 over the weekend. Hospital usage in the area did increase, going from 32 Friday t...
Mar 22, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 3/22: 1,220 new cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Monday reported 1,220 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, including 22 additional deaths due to the virus. The preliminar...
Mar 22, 2021 Midwest Communications
