Category Archives: Top Stories
CityLink makes interim general manager permanent with hiring
PEORIA, Ill. - The temporary title has been removed from the leader for CityLink and the Greater Peoria Mass Transit District. Kofi Kisseh was announced on Wednesday as the new general manager. He had...
Jun 12, 2025 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Will Stevenson)
Marines prepare for Los Angeles deployment as protests spread across US
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -California will face off with the Trump administration in court on Thursday over the deployment of U.S. troops in Los Angeles after demonstrators again took to the streets in ma...
Jun 12, 2025 U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, who were placed in an alert status over the weekend, are briefed by battalion leadership while rehearsing crowd control tactics at a base in the greater Los Angeles area, California, U.S. June 10, 2025. U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Logan Courtright/Handout via REUTERS
Peoria Zoo's black-handed spider money, Butch, passes away
PEORIA, Ill. - A longtime resident of the Peoria Zoo has passed away. The zoo announced on Thursday the death of its "beloved" black-handed spider monkey, Butch. Butch was 52 years old, and believed t...
Jun 12, 2025 (Peoria Zoo)
Judge in Harvey Weinstein trial declares mistrial on rape charge following sex abuse conviction
(Reuters) -The judge overseeing Harvey Weinstein's criminal trial in Manhattan on Thursday declared a mistrial on a rape charge against the former Hollywood movie mogul, after one of the jurors refuse...
Jun 12, 2025 Harvey Weinstein's case continues with his retrial in New York, June 11, 2025 Steven Hirsch/Pool via REUTERS
UPDATE: Tazewell County 911 back in operation
UPDATED 2:41 P.M. TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - Tazewell County says its 911 lines are back in operation. In a Facebook post just before 2:30 P.M., the county announced its lines were fixed and active, but ...
Jun 12, 2025 Abdulla Al Muhairi / CC
Family of Dunlap student killed in car crash reaches settlement
PEORIA, Ill. - The family of a Dunlap teen killed in a car crash has settled a lawsuit with the other driver. In May 2024, 18-year-old Dunlap High School Senior Nevaeh Mitchell was killed in a head-on...
Jun 12, 2025 Midwest Communications
Pritzker to tell Congress 'both parties are to blame' for broken immigration system
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker will tell a congressional committee Thursday that America's immigration problems are a result of a bipartisan failure to reform the country...
Jun 12, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks to reporters following an event at the Illinois State Library in Springfield on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Coroner identifies Bartonville man killed in Peoria auto theft
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County coroner has identified the man who died after a vehicle theft in Peoria Monday afternoon. Coroner Jamie Harwood says 70-year-old William Collier, of Bartonville, was t...
Jun 12, 2025 Peoria County Coroner's Office
Air India plane with 242 on board crashes at India's Ahmedabad airport
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -An Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from India's western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, the airline and police said, with...
Jun 12, 2025 Emergency personnel work at the crash site of an Air India plane in Ahmedabad, India, June 12, 2025, in this still image taken from video. ANI/Reuters TV via REUTERS
Arson to blame for another fire in Peoria Wednesday night
PEORIA, Ill. - It appears arson is to blame for yet another residential fire this week in Peoria. Firefighters were called to Homestead Avenue, near NE Brevis Street just before 8:30 Wednesday night, ...
Jun 12, 2025 Midwest Communications
