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Startup hub in downtown Peoria turns one year old
PEORIA, Ill. - An innovation startup hub in downtown Peoria is turning one year old. A celebration on Fulton Plaza on Thursday marked one year since Distillery Labs opened its doors. The event feature...
Jul 31, 2025 The exterior of the new Distillery Labs hub in downtown Peoria. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held on Tuesday, July 30. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD-Julia Bradley)
Sorensen blasts a Medicaid provision of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"
PEORIA, Ill. - A central Illinois Congressman is blasting one aspect of Medicaid cuts signed into law earlier this month. One Medicaid provision in President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill implements work...
Jul 31, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump escalates trade war with Canada following Palestine stance
(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump intensified his trade war with Canada a day ahead of his August 1 deadline for a tariff agreement, saying it would be "very hard" to make a deal with Canada afte...
Jul 31, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attend a meeting with G7 leaders and guests, at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, June 16, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Man found guilty for fatal shooting during dice game in Peoria's North Valley
PEORIA, Ill. - A man has been found guilty of murder after a fatal shooting during a dice game in Peoria's North Valley two years ago. 23-year-old Ronnie Simmons was found guilty Thursday of First Deg...
Jul 31, 2025 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Back from D.C., LaHood discusses Trump's Big Beautiful Bill and the Epstein files
PEORIA, Ill. - Republican Congressman Darin LaHood (IL-16), is back from Congress' latest session in Washington, D.C. LaHood spoke with WMBD's "Greg and Dan" Thursday morning about President Trump's "...
Jul 31, 2025 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Ameren breaks ground for new solar energy center in rural Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Ameren Illinois is breaking ground on a new center to help ease the power grid a little bit in Peoria. Leaders with Ameren broke ground Thursday morning on the Peoria Solar Energy Cente...
Jul 31, 2025 Ameren leaders ceremonially break ground on the new Peoria Solar Energy Center, off of Pottstown Road. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US weekly jobless claims rise marginally
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits increased marginally last week, suggesting that the labor market remained stable, though it is taking lo...
Jul 31, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A man walks into register at a military job fair in Sandy, Utah, U.S., March 26, 2019. REUTERS/George Frey/File Photo
Peoria's 50's Diner closed after 34 years of serving customers
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria restaurant has officially closed its doors after 34 years in business. The 50's Diner in the Metro Centre had to shut down the family-owned business after a water main break la...
Jul 31, 2025 The 50's Diner in the Metro Centre in Peoria is closing after 34 years in business. (25 News)
New Mexico judge dismisses Alec Baldwin's 'malicious' prosecution suit in 'Rust' case
(Reuters) -A New Mexico judge has thrown out a misconduct lawsuit filed by actor Alec Baldwin against local prosecutors and sheriff's officials over their pursuit of criminal charges against him for t...
Jul 31, 2025 FILE PHOTO: US actor Alec Baldwin attends his trial for involuntary manslaughter at Santa Fe County District Court in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 12, 2024. In October 2021, on the New Mexico set of the Western movie "Rust," a gun pointed by Baldwin discharged a live round, killing the film's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding its director. RAMSAY DE GIVE/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
NTSB criticizes FAA for failing to act before fatal Army helicopter collision
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of the National Transportation Safety Board sharply criticized U.S. officials for failing to act before the January 29 collision of a U.S. Army helicopter with an Americ...
Jul 31, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A crane retrieves part of the helicopter from the Potomac River as an American plane departs, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the river, by the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., February 6, 2025. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
