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Nuclear power, battery storage funding at center of energy policy debate
Article Summary The long-running debate over energy policy is heating up ahead of lawmakers' fall veto session. Lawmakers are considering loosening nuclear power regulations and incentivizing battery ...
Sep 19, 2025 An industrial-scale battery storage facility at G&W Electric in Bolingbrook, which was installed in 2024. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Trump to impose $100,000 fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump plans to impose a new $100,000 application fee for H-1B worker visas, a White House official said, potentially dealing a big blow to the technology sector that ...
Sep 19, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he speaks with the media in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 5, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/ File Photo
Convicted murderer asks Peoria County judge to reconsider sentence
PEORIA, Ill. - A convicted murderer is asking a Peoria County judge to reconsider his sentence. 25-year-old Tramier Pate was sentenced to 85 years in prison in July after being convicted in the 2023 s...
Sep 19, 2025 Tramier Pate (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria Salvation Army begins men's shelter project with groundbreaking
PEORIA, Ill. - Work will begin next week on construction of a new men's shelter for the Peoria Salvation Army. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Friday morning to kick off the work on the site of the...
Sep 19, 2025 Peoria Salvation Army and community leaders ceremonially push dirt to break ground on the organization's men's shelter project. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Judge strikes Trump's lawsuit against New York Times over its content
(Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday struck Donald Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times over its content, calling it a "decidedly improper" effort to attack an adversary. ...
Sep 19, 2025 The New York Times building in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 16, 2025. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper/File Photo
Peoria apartment fire causes $100K damage and sends a firefighter to the hospital
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to the area of N. Kingston Drive and W. Granada Court Thursday night for an apartment fire. Fire Battalion Chief Larry Carter says when crews arrived aro...
Sep 19, 2025 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Erika Kirk named CEO of Turning Point USA after husband's murder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The widow of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated on a college campus last week, was unanimously elected on Thursday as the new CEO of Turning Point USA, the grou...
Sep 19, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President JD Vance, his wife Usha Vance and wife of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Erika Frantzve, exit Air Force Two, which is carrying the body of Kirk, as the aircraft lands at the airport in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., September 11, 2025, one day after Kirk was fatally shot during an event at Utah Valley University. REUTERS/Thomas Machowicz/File Photo
Peoria Promise expands to include Peoria Heights students
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. (25 News) - More students in the Peoria area now have access to additional financial aid to help them get a college education. Peoria Promise reimburses tuition payments for local...
Sep 19, 2025 Courtesy of Peoria Heights School District
Area fire crews help put out 60-acre fire in S. Peoria Thursday
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called Thursday afternoon to a brush fire in the area of W. Clark and Darst Streets. Fire Battalion Chief Larry Carter says when they arrived just after 2:30, c...
Sep 19, 2025 1470&100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Woodford County SA discusses SAFE-T Act concerns after release of man accused of soliciting a minor
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. - Concerns are being raised by the Woodford County State's Attorney about the state's SAFE-T Act, but is not confident in changes to it. Erik Gibson's concerns come in the wake o...
Sep 18, 2025 (File-25 News)
