Category Archives: Top Stories
The price to fill up your car in Peoria continues to fall
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria gas prices are continuing to fall. GasBuddy reports an average of $3.22/g Monday in the Peoria area, down 4.1 cents in the past week. The average is 14.9 cents lower than a month...
Nov 11, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
Source says Trump told Putin not to escalate in Ukraine, Kremlin denies they spoke
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and advised him not to escalate the Ukraine war, a source familiar with the...
Nov 11, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Osaka, June 28, 2019. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS
Two people dead after multiple Sunday night shootings in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Two people are dead after multiple shootings Sunday night in Peoria. Peoria Police first responded to the 600-block of East Republic after ten shots were fired, finding an adult female ...
Nov 11, 2024
Firefighters gaining control over devastating wildfire near Los Angeles
(Reuters) - Firefighters started gaining control on Friday over a stubborn wildfire near Los Angeles that destroyed at least 132 buildings and damaged 88 others, as many of the more than 10,000 people...
Nov 09, 2024 Mountain Fire, Santa Paula, California, November 7, 2024. REUTERS/David Swanson
Driver involved in fatal Peoria crash in May pleads guilty and is sentenced
PEORIA, Ill. - A Wyoming man has pleaded guilty for his role in a head-on crash in May that killed a Dunlap High School student. Court records show 25-year-old Levi Dietz pleaded guilty Thursday to on...
Nov 09, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump's Republicans hold narrow edge in fight for US House majority
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's Republicans held on to a narrow edge on Friday as election officials tallied the final votes that will determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives, tho...
Nov 09, 2024 Trump supporters take photographs near the U.S. Capitol building as the sun sets the day U.S. President Elect Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election in Washington, U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Limestone High School employee arrested after alleged inappropriate relationship with student
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - A Limestone High School employee has been arrested after an alleged inappropriate relationship between them and a student. Bartonville Police say 37-year-old Ronnie Baskin was arre...
Nov 09, 2024 (File-25 News)
After Hamas rejection of hostage deal, US asked Qatar to expel the group
WASHINGTON/DOHA (Reuters) -The U.S. has told Qatar that the presence of Hamas in Doha is no longer acceptable in the weeks since the Palestinian militant group rejected the latest proposal to achieve ...
Nov 08, 2024 An armoured vehicle drives as damaged buildings are seen in the background, amid the ongoing ground operation of the Israeli army against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, September 13, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen EDITOR'S NOTE: REUTERS PHOTOGRAPHS WERE REVIEWED BY THE IDF AS PART OF THE CONDITIONS OF THE EMBED. NO PHOTOS WERE REMOVED. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Federal judge strikes down Illinois assault weapons ban, setting up likely appeal
SPRINGFIELD - A federal judge in East St. Louis on Friday struck down Illinois' assault weapons ban on the grounds that it violates the Second and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution and issued a...
Nov 08, 2024 The U.S. District Courthouse is pictured in East St. Louis. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Hundreds of local high school students learn how to "build their future"
EDWARDS Ill. - More than 400 local high school students learned how they could "build their future" Friday in Edwards... It was the third annual Skills USA Construction Pathways Career Experience -- a...
Nov 08, 2024
