Category Archives: Top Stories
US consumer inflation slows in February; tariffs expected to boost prices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. consumer prices increased moderately in February as higher shelter costs were partially offset by cheaper airline fares, giving the Federal Reserve room to keep interest rat...
Mar 12, 2025 FILE PHOTO: People shop in a supermarket as rising inflation affects consumer prices in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 13, 2022. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo
Pekin approves plans for a new downtown dispensary
PEKIN, Ill. - Pekin's City Council has given the green light to plans for a new cannabis dispensary in the historic downtown area. Miggy's Shop LLC requested a special use permit for a dispensary on C...
Mar 12, 2025 The former Pekin Performing Arts Center is expected to be the site of a new cannabis dispensary. (25 News)
Trump metals tariffs draw swift retaliation from Canada and EU
WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's increased tariffs on all U.S. steel and aluminum imports took effect on Wednesday, stepping up a campaign to reorder global trade in favor of th...
Mar 12, 2025 Workers install steel rods at a construction site in Miami, Florida, U.S., March 11, 2025. REUTERS/Giorgio Viera
Peoria approves $39K to help keep the unhoused off the street
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City Council unanimously approved giving LULA NFP additional funding to continue a project that's been sheltering homeless people in a motel at Tuesday night's meeting. The n...
Mar 12, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
A wary Russia waits for details from US on Ukraine ceasefire plan
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was awaiting details from Washington about a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine while senior Moscow sources said a deal would have to take ac...
Mar 12, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Members of the National Police Special Purpose Battalion of Zaporizhzhia region fire a D-30 howitzer towards Russian troops on a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine March 7, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
US House Republicans pass stopgap bill to fund government
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a stopgap bill to keep federal agencies funded past Friday, averting a partial shutdown beginning this w...
Mar 11, 2025 U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) arrives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 11, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
UPDATE: Tremont apartment fire victim identified
UPDATED 3/12 9:48 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The victim who died in a Tremont apartment fire Monday has been identified. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says 69-year-old Richard Hayden was pronounced dea...
Mar 11, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Grand jury indicts man accused of Valentine's Day robbery at Peoria apartment complex
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has indicted a man for his alleged role in a Valentine's Day armed robbery. 24-year-old Anthony Morris was indicted Tuesday on one count each of Armed Robbery...
Mar 11, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Partisan politics infiltrating non-partisan local Illinois elections
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - It's been just four months since the last election concluded, but another election is on the horizon in Illinois: the April 1 elections for school boards an...
Mar 11, 2025 Lisa Hernandez, a state representative and chair of the Democratic Party of Illinois, speaks to members of her party at a Democratic National Convention delegation breakfast. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Man injured after shooting on Peoria's South Side
PEORIA, Ill. - A man was injured after a shooting Tuesday afternoon in Peoria. Peoria Police say officers responded after eight shots were fired just before 1:30 P.M. in the area of Hayes and Griswold...
Mar 11, 2025
