Category Archives: Top Stories
Insurance industry opposes regulation, blames inflation, climate change for rate hikes
Story summary: Gov. JB Pritzker and legislative leaders have suggested Illinois should exercise more regulatory authority over premiums that insurance companies charge for homeowners coverage. That be...
Aug 21, 2025 A 2023 storm caused extensive home damage in parts of Springfield, including trees falling on homes. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Teenager arrested by Peoria Police after allegedly using golf club during fight
PEORIA, Ill. - A teenager was arrested Wednesday morning in Peoria after allegedly striking someone with a golf club. Peoria Police says officers responded after three men were engaged in a fight in t...
Aug 21, 2025 Peoria Police Department
One person arrested and another at-large after Wednesday morning shooting in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - One person has been arrested and another remains at large after a shooting Wednesday morning in Peoria. Officers responded just before 9:00 A.M. to Shipman and Martin Luther King Junior...
Aug 21, 2025 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump's huge civil fraud penalty thrown out by New York appeals court
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York state appeals court on Thursday threw out an approximately half-billion-dollar penalty that Donald Trump had been ordered to pay after a judge found the U.S. president f...
Aug 21, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with the media after his return from Pennsylvania, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., May 30, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
No one wins Powerball jackpot Wednesday night
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Powerball's top prize keeps on growing. No one matched all five numbers and the Powerball in Wednesday's night drawing. That means Saturday night's jackpot currently sits at $700 m...
Aug 21, 2025 (Powerball)
ICC enrollment up for a sixth straight semester
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Illinois Central College has seen enrollment rise for the sixth semester in a row. According to a release, as of August 20, students have registered for 2,013 more credit hours tha...
Aug 21, 2025 (Illinois Central College)
US weekly jobless claims rise to highest since June
(Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new applications for jobless benefits rose by the most in about three months last week in an initial signal that layoffs may be picking up and adding to signs...
Aug 21, 2025 A "we're hiring" sign is displayed on the door of a local business, after U.S. employment growth slowed more than expected in July, in Encinitas, California, U.S. August 1, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Putin is prepared to meet Zelenskiy if key issues are worked through first, Lavrov says
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin is prepared to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy but all issues need to be worked through first and there's a question about Zelenskiy's authority...
Aug 21, 2025 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting with India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at Zinaida Morozova's Mansion in Moscow, Russia August 21, 2025. Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via REUTERS
Man found guilty in 2021 shooting death of girlfriend near Brimfield
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County jury has found a man guilty of First Degree Murder in the 2021 death of his girlfriend. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 39-year-old Joshua McGee was fou...
Aug 20, 2025 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Arizona man sentenced for mailing fentanyl to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - An Arizona man will spend a decade in federal prison after mailing fentanyl to a Peoria address in 2023. The Department of Justice says 38-year-old Terence Michael Carroll was sentenced...
Aug 20, 2025 courtroom gavel
