Category Archives: Top Stories
GasBuddy: Peoria gas prices up a bit after oil prices reached $70 a barrel last week
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in Peoria have gone up 1.9 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.31 a gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy. Peoria's prices are four cents lower than a month ago a...
Aug 04, 2025 Orin Zebest / CC
Crews use "jaws of life" to rescue person involved in Peoria crash
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters responded to a two-vehicle crash Sunday evening that sent three people to the hospital. Around 6:25 p.m., crews were called to the area of W. Northmoor and N. Univer...
Aug 04, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Texas governor vows to replace Democrats absent at Monday redistricting vote
UPDATED 1:05 P.M. (Reuters) -Texas Governor Greg Abbott has vowed to replace Democratic lawmakers who left the state over the weekend unless they return by Monday afternoon to vote on a Republican pla...
Aug 04, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks to the media at a press conference in Hunt, Texas, U.S., July 8, 2025. REUTERS/Sergio Flores/File Photo
Loni Anderson, who played smart against stereotype on 'WKRP in Cincinnati,' dead at 79
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Actress Loni Anderson, who won acclaim for her U.S. television sitcom role as the brainy, glamorous radio station receptionist defying workplace sexual stereotypes on "WKRP in C...
Aug 04, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Actress Loni Anderson, star of the television series "WKRP in Cinncinnati", poses at the 3rd annual TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, California, March 13, 2005. REUTERS/Michael Buckner/File Photo
St. Jude Telethon raises record amount
PEORIA, Ill - The St. Jude Telethon continues to set records. Saturday's 48th annual event on WEEK-TV signed off with a record $12,134,722 raised, up over a half-million dollars over the 2024 amount. ...
Aug 03, 2025 Photo: WEEK-TV
Powerball jackpot rises to $426 million
ATLANTA, Ga.- The Powerball jackpot continues to rise. There was no grand prize winner in Saturday night's Powerball drawing. The jackpot for Monday is now $426 million with a cash option of $193.5 mi...
Aug 03, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Powerball tickets are seen at a liquor store, in Washington, U.S., July 19, 2023. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Pope Leo exhorts crowd of million Catholic youth to spread their faith
ROME (Reuters) - Pope Leo celebrated the largest event yet of his nearly three-month tenure on Sunday, encouraging a crowd of more than a million Catholic young people gathered in a field on the outsk...
Aug 03, 2025 Pope Leo XIV leads Mass for Jubilee of Youth in Tor Vergata, in Rome, Italy, August 3, 2025. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
Woodford County domestic situation ends in arrest
EL PASO, Ill. - Woodford County authorities have made one arrest after a man allegedly barricaded himself in a residence after firing a shot at a woman. Chief Deputy Dennis Tipsword says authorities r...
Aug 02, 2025 Photo: Woodford County Sheriff's Office
Girl rescued from country club pool dies
PEORIA, Ill. - One of two girls found unresponsive in a pool has died. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Nola Lobdell, 6, died at 2:14 p.m. Friday at the Children's Hospital of Illinois. An aut...
Aug 02, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Numerous volunteers with a variety of motivations run to give back to St. Jude
PEORIA/BRIMFIELD/SPARLAND, Ill. - On Saturday, thousands of runners from the Memphis to Peoria St. Jude Run, as well as more than 30 satellite runs, will converge on the Peoria Civic Center. More than...
Aug 02, 2025 Participants in the 43nd annual Memphis to Peoria Run travel through the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital campus on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.
(St. Jude Runs Facebook Page)
