Category Archives: Top Stories
Lawmakers return to Springfield as projected budget deficit looms
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois lawmakers returned to Springfield Tuesday for the first time since May following news earlier this month that they're facing a projected $3.2 billion bud...
Nov 13, 2024 Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet, speaks at a news conference at the Illinois Capitol in Springfield with fellow Republican senators on Tuesday, Nov. 12. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Russia stages first missile attack on Kyiv since August, Ukraine says
KYIV (Reuters) -Blasts boomed across Kyiv on Wednesday morning after officials said Russia launched its first missile attack on the Ukrainian capital since August, forcing elderly women and small chil...
Nov 13, 2024 Firefighters work at the site where an industrial area was hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv region, Ukraine November 13, 2024. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kyiv region/Handout via REUTERS
Biden, Trump to meet at White House for transition talks after Harris defeat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will host President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday for a meeting designed to demonstrate a smooth transition between administrations desp...
Nov 13, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden walks to deliver remarks on the 2024 election results and the upcoming presidential transition of power, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., November 7, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Republican Rick Scott banks on Trump ties in his bid to lead the Senate
WASHINGTON - He's a wealthy Floridian who has taken aim at fellow Republicans while pushing to consolidate power in Washington, and his name is not Donald Trump. But like the president-elect, Rick Sco...
Nov 13, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Senator Rick Scott (FL) speaks during Day 2 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 16, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
Peoria's 2025 budget passed without property tax break or grocery tax
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria residents will not get a property tax break in the budget passed by the city council Tuesday night. The $288 million FY 2025 budget does include over $43 million to cover employe...
Nov 13, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Pekin approves new grocery tax to replace state grocery tax
PEKIN, Ill. - The city of Pekin is using a new grocery tax in the hopes of making up a state tax that will be going away. By a 4-3 vote at Tuesday night's city council meeting, councilmen approved the...
Nov 12, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Limestone Community High School employee charged after alleged sexual contact with minor
PEORIA, Ill. - An employee of Limestone Community High School has been charged after he allegedly had sexual contact with a minor. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 37-year-old Ronnie B...
Nov 12, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Amid flurry of gun ban challenges, federal appeals court considers Cook County assault weapon law
CHICAGO - A panel of federal judges is weighing whether to overturn a Cook County ban on semiautomatic weapons in a case that could upend other local bans and call into question the statewide prohibit...
Nov 12, 2024 A federal appeals court is considering a challenge to a Cook County assault weapons ban that regulates guns like the one pictured. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Trump picks Mike Huckabee, pro-Israel conservative, as ambassador
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was nominating former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel, tapping a staunchly pro-Israel conser...
Nov 12, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Mike Huckabee speaks as Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump looks at him during a campaign event at the Drexelbrook Catering and Event Center, in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 29, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in US prison
BOSTON (Reuters) -Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years in prison for leaking online highly classified military documents, including records relate...
Nov 12, 2024 FILE PHOTO: An undated picture shows Jack Douglas Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air National Guard, who was arrested by the FBI, over his alleged involvement in leaks online of classified documents, posing for a selfie at an unidentified location. Social Media Website/via Reuters/File Photo
