Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria Public Works previews future Moss Avenue construction project
PEORIA Ill. - A $10 million construction project is getting ready to start on Moss Avenue in Peoria. Andrea Klopfenstein with Peoria Public Works stopped by WMBD Radio's The Phil Luciano Show Tuesday ...
Feb 18, 2025 (City of Peoria)
Peoria City Soccer releases mens team's full schedule
PEORIA Ill. - Peoria City Soccer men's team has released its schedule for the upcoming season. The release was Tuesday and states Peoria City will play at least nine home games during its 2025 men's s...
Feb 18, 2025 (Peoria City Soccer)
Juvenile arrested early Tuesday morning in Peoria for Aggravated Battery
PEORIA Ill. - A 13-year-old male was arrested early Tuesday morning, in Peoria, for allegedly knocking out a 26-year-old women. At around 12:20am, Peoria Police dispatched to the 3400 block of Fallen ...
Feb 18, 2025
Peoria home destroyed after early Tuesday morning fire
PEORIA, Ill. - An emergency demolition was ordered for a Peoria single-story house after a fire early Tuesday morning. Peoria Fire crews arrived at the house in the area of Gale and Hudson at around 1...
Feb 18, 2025 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Judge expected to rule on Musk and DOGE access at several US agencies
(Reuters) - A federal judge is expected to rule on Tuesday on a request by 13 U.S. states to temporarily block Elon Musk and the government downsizing team known as DOGE set up by President Donald Tru...
Feb 18, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk walks on Capitol Hill on the day of a meeting with Senate Republican Leader-elect John Thune (R-SD), in Washington, U.S. December 5, 2024. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo
Vatican cancels pope's weekend engagements as he battles 'complex' infection
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, who is spending his fifth day in hospital for what doctors described as a "complex" respiratory infection, will not take part in this weekend's Holy Year events,...
Feb 18, 2025 A pilgrims carries a cross as Pope Francis is admitted to continue treatment for a respiratory tract infection, at St. Peter's Square, in Vatican, February 18, 2025. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
Israel will begin negotiations on next phase of Gaza ceasefire this week, minister says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will begin indirect negotiations with the Palestinian militant group Hamas on the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal this week and it demands a complete demilitarisat...
Feb 18, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar speaks during the visit of the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem February 16, 2025. JACK GUEZ/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
UPDATE: Russia and US agree at talks without Ukraine to press ahead with bid to end war
UPDATED 8:38 A.M. RIYADH (Reuters) - The United States and Russia agreed in Riyadh on Tuesday to press ahead with efforts to end the war in Ukraine, a U.S. official said, as Kyiv and its European alli...
Feb 18, 2025 U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sits next to U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff during a meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad Al-Aiban, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 18, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool
Peoria man identified as victim in fatal I-74 crash near Goodfield
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. - A Peoria man has been identified as the victim in a fatal crash on Interstate 74 early Monday morning. Woodford County Coroner Tim Ruestman says 30-year-old Artiond Ivy died fr...
Feb 18, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Delta plane flips upside down at Toronto airport, injuring 18
TORONTO (Reuters) -A Delta Air Lines regional jet flipped upside down upon landing at Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday amid windy weather following a snowstorm, injuring 18 of the 80 people on board,...
Feb 17, 2025 An emergency responder works around an aircraft on a runway, after a plane crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada February 17, 2025. REUTERS/Cole Burston REUTERS/Cole Burston
