Category Archives: Top Stories
White House offers 2 million federal employees financial incentives to quit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration said on Tuesday it is offering financial incentives to 2 million civilian full-time federal workers to quit as part of plans to drastically shrink the si...
Jan 29, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secret Service Police stand guard outside the White House in Washington, U.S., January 28, 2023. REUTERS/Tasos Katopodis/File Photo
Car engulfed in flames in Peoria garage fire
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters responded to reports of a car on fire in a garage, attached to an apartment building Tuesday afternoon. Fire Battalion Chief Rick Waldron says crews arrived to W. Sh...
Jan 29, 2025 1470&100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
'Blatantly unlawful' federal spending freeze sends state scrambling
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - State agencies, nonprofit organizations and a host of other entities that rely on federal funding were thrown into chaos Tuesday following the release of a ...
Jan 28, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker is pictured at a news conference on Tuesday about the Trump Administration’s attempt to freeze federal grants and funding. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Peoria-area Congressman slams decision by Trump administration to freeze federal grants
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria non-profit was to receive some big news regarding funding on Tuesday from Congressman Eric Sorensen (D-Moline). But the announcement never came to be, after President Dona...
Jan 28, 2025 Congressman Eric Sorensen speaks at the Illinois Farmers Union Annual Meeting in East Peoria. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
House Republicans ask state Supreme Court to toss out legislative map
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Democrats continue to hold a supermajority in the Illinois House thanks to illegally gerrymandered House districts, House Republicans allege in a new lawsui...
Jan 28, 2025 House Republican Leader Tony McCombie speaks at a news conference on Tuesday about the House GOP’s lawsuit against Illinois’ legislative maps. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Bridgette Fox)
Man accused in Peoria's first homicide of 2025 indicted by grand jury
PEORIA, Ill. - A man accused in the shooting death of his girlfriend at a Peoria apartment complex earlier this month has been indicted by a grand jury. The grand jury indicted 45-year-old Derreck Hal...
Jan 28, 2025 (Peoria Co. Jail)
Victims of fatal Fulton County crash Monday afternoon identified by coroner
FULTON COUNTY, Ill. - The identity of two people who died in a two vehicle head-on crash in rural Fulton County Monday afternoon have been released. Sheriff's deputies responded to the crash on U.S. R...
Jan 28, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: US judge temporarily blocks Trump from freezing federal grants
UPDATED 4:29 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked part of President Donald Trump's sweeping directive to pause federal grants, loans and other financial aid, giving a...
Jan 28, 2025 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) walks to a press conference following the weekly Senate caucus luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 28, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Thousands of musicians headed to IMEC in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Music teachers and students from around the state return to Peoria this week. Illinois Music Education Association's Darcy Nendza says thousands of participants will be in area restaura...
Jan 28, 2025 (Illinois Music Education Association Facebook)
US Senate votes to confirm Trump nominee to head Transportation Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate voted 77 to 22 on Tuesday to confirm former U.S. Representative Sean Duffy to head the U.S. Transportation Department. Duffy, who was nominated by President Donal...
Jan 28, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Sean Duffy, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be transportation secretary, testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
