Category Archives: Top Stories
UPDATE: Sean 'Diddy' Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassie testifies that Combs beat her frequently
Updated 10:48 a.m. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura, a rhythm and blues singer known as "Cassie," testified at the hip-hop mogul's sex trafficking trial on Tuesd...
May 13, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Singer Casandra Elizabeth Ventura arrives on the red carpet ahead of the screening of the film "Killing Them Softly", in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, May 22, 2012. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler/File Photo
UPDATE: Trump signs economic partnership agreement with Saudi Arabia
Updated 9:27 a.m. RIYADH (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed a strategic economic agreement with Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as the oil power rolled out the red carpet for him at the start of a...
May 13, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump is welcomed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
PPS rejects waiving tuition for teachers' kids living outside the district a second time
PEORIA, Ill. -Peoria Public Schools has voted against waiving tuition fees for students whose parents are employed by the district, but live outside its boundaries. Board members Monday night rejected...
May 13, 2025 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
Pekin swears in new city council and honors late City Clerk
PEKIN, Ill. - The Pekin City Council on Monday night swore-in its new members, honored its departing ones, and remembered a "pillar of the community." Monday night was the final city council meeting f...
May 12, 2025 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Record-breaking weekend of comedy and music at Peoria Civic Center
PEORIA, Ill. - There was a lot of laughter from the Peoria Civic Center on Saturday The Civic Center says more than 18,000 people attended the two shows by comedian Nate Bargatze, setting a single-day...
May 12, 2025 (Dalton Kemper/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Republicans float new tax breaks for tips, local taxes in Trump budget package
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in the U.S. Congress proposed new tax breaks for tipped income, overtime pay, private school tuition, seniors, and state and local taxes on Monday as they fleshed out...
May 12, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) looks on, after President Donald Trump delivered remarks on tariffs, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Video shows Sean 'Diddy' Combs hitting and kicking then-girlfriend in hotel hallway
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jurors in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial viewed a 2016 video on Monday in which the hip-hop mogul assaults his then-girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, throws her to the grou...
May 12, 2025 Justin Combs and Quincy Brown walk, on the first day in the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs on sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges at U.S. court in Manhattan, in New York City, U.S., May 12, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Segar
The Salvation Army is celebrating nearly 140 years in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - The Salvation Army of Central Illinois is celebrating its long history this week...during National Salvation Army Week. The Corps' Major Heath Sells says their programs help people 365 ...
May 12, 2025 (Salvation Army)
First white South Africans arrive in US as Trump claims they face 'genocide'
JOHANNESBURG/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Monday welcomed 59 white South Africans it has granted refugee status in the U.S. for being deemed victims of racial discrimination, a m...
May 12, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators hold placards in support of U.S. President Donald Trump's stance against what he calls racist laws, land expropriation, and farm attacks, outside the American Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, February 15, 2025. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo
Peoria Police investigating early Sunday morning shooting and crash on South Side
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating a traffic crash from early Sunday morning in the area of a nearby shooting. The rollover crash occurred in the intersection of Western and Howett, where ...
May 12, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
