Category Archives: Top Stories
Nearly 300 new Illinois laws take effect in 2025
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year's Day, 293 new state laws will take effect. Those include some of the defining bills of...
Dec 23, 2024 Nearly 300 new laws will take effect in Illinois in 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
US House report finds Matt Gaetz paid thousands for sex and drugs, media reports say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House Ethics Committee has found that former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for drugs and sex, including with a 17-year-old gi...
Dec 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks ahead of a visit by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump during the AmericaFest 2024 conference sponsored by conservative group Turning Point in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. December 22, 2024. REUTERS/Cheney Orr/File Photo
Trump threatens to retake control of Panama Canal
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump threatened to reassert U.S. control over the Panama Canal on Sunday, accusing Panama of charging excessive rates to use the Central Ame...
Dec 23, 2024 Panama Canal, August 12, 2024. REUTERS/Enea Lebrun
Peoria gas prices fall slightly, state prices increase
PEORIA, Ill. - The price at the pump in the Peoria area has dipped slightly before the presents are unwrapped. GasBuddy reports an average of $3.14/g for unleaded on Monday, down 2.1 cents in the past...
Dec 23, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
UPDATE: Suspect in UnitedHealth CEO's killing pleads not guilty to murder, terrorism charges
UPDATED 8:40 A.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, pleaded not guilty on Monday to ...
Dec 23, 2024 Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson, walks on the day of an arraignment hearing, at New York Supreme Court in New York City, U.S. December 23, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 inmates on federal death row
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole before he hands over po...
Dec 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, U.S. December 10, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
UPDATED: One person dead after East Bluff shooting Sunday night
PEORIA, Ill. - The man that died after a shooting in Peoria's East Bluff Sunday night, has been identified. Peoria Police say officers responded to a house just after 7:45 P.M. to a call of a person s...
Dec 23, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Elmwood man arrested after allegedly firing weapon into neighborhood
ELMWOOD, Ill. - An Elmwood man has been arrested after allegedly firing a weapon into a residential neighborhood last month. Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins says deputies were dispatched to the ar...
Dec 22, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Friday fire damages Peoria Heights home
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Two people and their pets were displaced after a kitchen fire in their Peoria Heights home Friday. Peoria Heights Fire says crews were called to the single-story home in the Lon...
Dec 22, 2024 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Zoo mourns passing of two-toed sloth
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Zoo is mourning the loss of its Hoffman's two-toed sloth. The zoo announced Friday the passing of Dustin at 47 years old. In a statement, the zoo says Dustin began to experie...
Dec 22, 2024 (Peoria Zoo)
