Category Archives: Top Stories
PPS approves scaled back plan to pay for new buses
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Public Schools have freed up $1.25 million to help pay for new school buses. The school board Monday night voted unanimously to transfer the funds from working cash into the tran...
Feb 11, 2025 (25 News)
Peoria and Pekin Salvation Armies reach Tree of Lights campaign goals
PEORIA, Ill. - The goals for the Peoria and Pekin Salvation Army's 2024-25 Tree of Lights campaign have been reached. The Salvation Army announced Monday night that the Peoria campaign just reached it...
Feb 10, 2025 (Salvation Army)
UPDATE: Trump pardons Blagojevich 5 years after commutation cut prison time short
UPDATED 2/11 10:16 A.M. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Capitol News Illinois) - President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full pardon to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted on 18 corruption co...
Feb 10, 2025 Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his wife Patti outside their Chicago home shortly after Blagojevich receiving a full pardon from President Donald Trump. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
US judge says Trump administration violated order lifting spending freeze
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday said President Donald Trump's administration violated a court order lifting a broad freeze on federal spending and directed the government to immediately release any...
Feb 10, 2025 A reporter leaves the White House after the daily briefing, in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
US judge keeps his block on Trump federal buyout plan in place for now
BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge kept his block on President Donald Trump's buyout plan for federal employees in place on Monday and said he would consider imposing it for a longer period of...
Feb 10, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Pritzker signs 'Karina's law' to remove guns from domestic violence situations
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Karina Gonzalez and her 15-year-old daughter Daniela were shot and killed on Fourth of July weekend in 2023 at their Chicago home, allegedly by her husband. Aft...
Feb 10, 2025 Manny Alvarez, son of Karina Gonzalez, hugs Rep. Edgar Gonzalez Jr., D-Chicago, in the Illinois House on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. Karina Gonzalez, the namesake of the legislation, was allegedly shot and killed by her husband in Chicago in 2023 after receiving an order of protection. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Hamas says it will stop releasing hostages, accuses Israel of ceasefire violations
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Hamas on Monday announced it would stop releasing Israeli hostages until further notice over what the Palestinian militant group said were Israeli violations of the ceasefire agr...
Feb 10, 2025 FILE PHOTO: An Israeli military vehicle stands at its position, on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Israel February 9, 2025. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo
Illinois Central College seeing continued trend of more students
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The number of people taking courses at Illinois Central College continues to rise. The college announced Monday an enrollment of 7,606 students for the spring 2025 semester. That's...
Feb 10, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump to announce 25% steel and aluminium tariffs in latest trade salvo
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/SEOUL/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is expected to introduce new 25% tariffs on Monday on all steel and aluminium imports into the U.S., on top of existing metals d...
Feb 10, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Rolled steel are seen at a Hyundai Steel plant in Dangjin, about 130 km (81 miles) southwest of Seoul June 15, 2011. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won/File Photo
US judge declines to block Elon Musk's DOGE from Labor Department systems
(Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday declined to block Elon Musk's government cost-cutting department from accessing the U.S. Department of Labor's systems, an initial setback for the government emplo...
Feb 10, 2025 Protest outside the Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., February 5, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
