Category Archives: Top Stories
Tesla Cybertruck fire in Las Vegas leaves one dead, others injured
(Reuters) -A Tesla Cybertruck caught fire outside of the Trump Hotel Las Vegas on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring several others, and news reports said it was being investigated as a possib...
Jan 01, 2025 Trump Tower stands behind yellow tape, after a Tesla Cybertruck burned at the entrance of the building in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 1, 2025. REUTERS/Ronda Churchill
Shots fired at Farmington Road restaurant as new year began early Wednesday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Sheriff's Office is investigating shots fired near a restaurant just after the new year started. Sheriff Chris Watkins says suspects in a red van traveling east on Far...
Jan 01, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Peoria Riverfront Museum reports record weekend attendance for Muppets exhibit
PEORIA, Ill. - A lot of people want to see the Muppets in Peoria. The Peoria Riverfront Museum says nearly four-thousand people visited this past weekend, saying it's a record number of patrons. The m...
Jan 01, 2025 (Peoria Riverfront Museum)
Lewistown shooting victim identified by Fulton County Coroner
LEWISTOWN, Ill. - A 39-year-old Canton man has been identified as the victim in a fatal shooting at a Fulton County grocery store Tuesday night. Fulton County Coroner Austin Rhodes identified the vict...
Jan 01, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Russian gas era in Europe ends as Ukraine stops transit
MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) - Russian gas exports via Soviet-era pipelines running through Ukraine came to a halt on New Year's Day, marking the end of decades of Moscow's dominance over Europe's energy mar...
Jan 01, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A gas worker walks between pipes in a compressor and distribution station of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline, some 30 km (19 miles) from the south western Russian city of Kursk January 4, 2006. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo
Trump says will attend Jimmy Carter's funeral
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump said he would attend next week's state funeral for Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president who died on Sunday at the age of 100, and pr...
Jan 01, 2025 U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, accompanied by his wife Melania, attends a New Year's Eve event at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 31, 2024. REUTERS/Marco Bello
UPDATE: Man arrested for fatal shooting in Lewistown
UPDATE 5:30 A.M. LEWISTOWN, Ill. - A man is dead after being shot outside the County Market in Lewistown Tuesday, and another man is arrested for the shooting. Fulton County Sheriff's Office deputies ...
Jan 01, 2025 (Fulton County Sheriff's Office)
US military appeals court says plea deals related to 9/11 attacks may proceed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. military appeals court has ruled that plea deals related to the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two accomplices can proceed after Defense Sec...
Dec 31, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A U.S. national flag and flowers are placed at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum pool on the day of the 23rd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., September 11, 2024. REUTERS/Kent J.Edwards/File Photo
One person treated after Tuesday morning Peoria house fire
PEORIA, Ill. - One person was treated after a Tuesday morning house fire in Peoria. Peoria Fire says crews were called to the house in the area Rustic Ridge and Overbrook Drives just after 8:30 A.M., ...
Dec 31, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
As flu season kicks in, respiratory illnesses are overlapping in Central Illinois
PEORIA, Ill. - Respiratory illnesses have hit Central Illinois hard. Dr. Doug Kasper, Infectious Disease Specialist with OSF HealthCare, tells WMBD's "Greg and Dan", right now their clinics are seeing...
Dec 31, 2024 brizmaker / Depositphotos.com
