Category Archives: Top Stories
Pekin appoints new city clerk
PEKIN, Ill. - The city of Pekin is promoting from within for its new City Clerk. City Council on Monday night approved the appointment of Nicole Stewart to the role in the consent agenda. Stewart was ...
Jul 15, 2025 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US consumer prices pick up in June; underlying inflation still tame
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. consumer prices increased by the most in five months in June amid higher costs for some goods, suggesting tariffs were starting to have an impact on inflation and potentiall...
Jul 15, 2025 Shoppers cross the intersection of Broadway and Spring Street in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, U.S., September 21, 2023. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo
Peoria woman arrested on gun charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria woman was arrested on gun charges following a traffic stop Friday night. Peoria Police say officers stopped the woman's vehicle around 10 p.m. in the area of W. Nebraska and N....
Jul 15, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
US Senate to vote on Trump funding cuts as deadline looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate will begin voting as soon as Tuesday on President Donald Trump's request to slash $9.4 billion in spending on foreign aid and public broadcasting previously appro...
Jul 15, 2025 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol building is seen as a thunderstorm rolls through Washington, D.C., U.S., July 1, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Texas flood death toll rises to 131 as new storms loom
(Reuters) -The official tally of storm-related deaths across Texas rose to 131 on Monday as authorities warned of yet another round of heavy rains 10 days after a Hill Country flash flood that transfo...
Jul 15, 2025 Rescuers help a stranded person following a flood in McGregor, Texas, U.S., July 13, 2025, in this screen grab taken from a video. McGregor Volunteer Fire Department/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
KB Strong Foundation and OSF HealthCare promoting Glioblastoma awareness
PEORIA, Ill. - Wednesday July 16th is Glioblastoma Awareness Day...a day dedicated to spreading awareness about the highly aggressive and fatal brain cancer. Washington Community High School Basketbal...
Jul 15, 2025 (KB-Strong Foundation)
John Hooker, first of 'ComEd Four' to be sentenced, gets 1½ years in prison
Article summary Former Commonwealth Edison executive John Hooker has been sentenced to 18 months in prison in addition to a $500,000 fine - the first of the "ComEd Four" to face sentencing after their...
Jul 14, 2025 Former Commonwealth Edison executive John Hooker walks out of Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Monday, July 14, after being sentenced to 1 ½ years in prison and a $500,000 fine for his role in bribing ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Pritzker signs executive order responding to impact of tariffs on Illinois
Article Summary Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order requiring state agencies to come up with plans to respond to tariffs. President Donald Trump is set to implement new tariffs after previously...
Jul 14, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker issued his third executive order this year on Monday, which requires certain state agencies to draft plans to respond to federal tariffs. (Screenshot of executive order filing with Illinois Secretary of State)
US Supreme Court clears way for Trump to gut Education Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump's administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education, part of his bid to shrink the fede...
Jul 14, 2025 A view of the U.S. Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 1, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon
Illinois American Water issues alert over samples showing elevated lead levels in Peoria
UPDATE 4:12 P.M.; this story was updated with comment from Illinois American Water PEORIA, Ill. - Illinois American Water says a percentage of samples taken in the first half of the year in Peoria sho...
Jul 14, 2025 Illinois American Water
