Category Archives: Top Stories
Pair indicted for their alleged role in South Peoria armed vehicular hijacking
PEORIA, Ill. - Two men have been indicted for their alleged roles in a South Peoria vehicular hijacking earlier this month. Court documents indicate 34-year-old Christopher Coleman and 28-year-old Ant...
Mar 31, 2026 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Statewide warehouse pollution reduction bill fails to meet committee deadline
Article Summary A House deadline passed last week with lawmakers declining to advance a measure to establish annual emissions-reduction targets and a system of points for air pollution mitigation meas...
Mar 31, 2026 The 700,000 square-foot Amazon fulfillment is one of several in the area south of Joliet. (Medill Illinois News Bureau photo by Gabriel Matias Castilho)
US judge halts Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project, for now
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge blocked Donald Trump on Tuesday from proceeding with construction of a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing, haltin...
Mar 31, 2026 Construction cranes work on White House East Wing renovations in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 17, 2026. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper
AM 1290 WIRL signal goes silent after 77 years of broadcasting
PEORIA, Ill. - The Mighty 1290 has gone silent. The signal for AM 1290 WIRL was shut down on Tuesday at noon after more than 77 years on the air. AM 1290 first went on the air in 1948. Over the years,...
Mar 31, 2026 Former WIRL personality Wayne Miller pressed the button to shut off the AM 1290 WIRL signal for good after 77 years of broadcasting, on March 31st, 2026. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump administration unlawfully revoked status of migrants who used Biden-era app, US judge rules
By Nate Raymond BOSTON, March 31 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to reverse termination of the legal status of thousands of migrants who had been...
Mar 31, 2026 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters onboard Air Force One, on travel from West Palm Beach, Florida, to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., February 16, 2026. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Absences fall sharply after US airport security workers finally get paid
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - The Transportation Security Administration said absences among the nation's 50,000 security officers fell sharply on Monday as workers were paid af...
Mar 31, 2026 A TSA patch at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., March 20, 2026. REUTERS/Megan Varner
Bill targets zoning laws that block homes for adults with disabilities
Article Summary Local zoning rules can create barriers for organizations seeking to provide community integrated living arrangements for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. A Hous...
Mar 31, 2026 Clear skies above an Envision Unlimited community integrated living arrangement, a group home for adults with disabilities, in the Chicago area. (Medill Illinois News Bureau, Photo by Rebecka Pieder)
US Supreme Court rejects Colorado's ban on LGBT 'conversion' talk therapy
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a Colorado law that banned psychotherapists from using "conversion" talk therapy intended to change a LGBT minor's sexual or...
Mar 31, 2026 U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 20, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
US is confronting Russia, China where necessary over Iran, says Hegseth
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - The United States is well aware of what China and Russia are doing to help Iran and are confronting those efforts where necessary, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...
Mar 31, 2026 U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a briefing held with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine (not pictured), amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 31, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
US pump prices hit $4 a gallon as Iran war wreaks havoc on global energy supply
By Nicole Jao NEW YORK, March 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. national average retail price of gasoline crossed $4 a gallon for the first time in more than three years on Monday, data from price tracking serv...
Mar 31, 2026 A gas station mechanic holds a nozzle connected to a gas pump as a gasoline drips out in Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S., March 7, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
