Category Archives: Top Stories
Early Intervention (EI) rally held in Pekin
PEKIN Ill. - A rally was held in Pekin Wednesday morning, to bring awareness to the Early Intervention movement in Central Illinois. The Early Childhood Forum of Central Illinois partnered with Raisin...
Oct 30, 2024 (Casey Foreman & 1470 100.3 WMBD Radio)
Biden says 'garbage' comment not aimed at all Trump supporters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's attempt to call out racist remarks by a speaker at a campaign rally for presidential candidate Donald Trump backfired when Trump and other Republicans...
Oct 30, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a visit to Dundalk Marine Terminal in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., October 29, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
By the numbers: Unions lead the way on funding state elections in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - This year in Illinois, there are no statewide elections. There are no fights over a Supreme Court seat. There are no constitutional amendments. At the State...
Oct 30, 2024 Senate Minority Leader John Curran, House Minority Leader Tony McCombie, Gov. JB Pritzker, House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch and Senate President Don Harmon. (Capitol News Illinois illustration by Andrew Adams)
UPDATE: Peoria County files charges against alleged gang members for two year spree of violence
UPDATED 2:42 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are touting their role in an investigation into members of an alleged gang that were indicted Tuesday. Police say the investigation over the past two yea...
Oct 30, 2024 Peoria County State's Attorney Jodi Hoos. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Caterpillar forecast hit by lower N. America stockpiling, weak Europe, Asia/Pacific
(Reuters) -Caterpillar on Wednesday trimmed its annual revenue forecast again on weakness in Europe and Asia/Pacific and lower equipment stocking by independent dealers in North America after another ...
Oct 30, 2024 A Caterpillar 777 autonomous mining truck is displayed during CES 2023, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 6, 2023. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo
US Supreme Court revives Virginia's voter roll purge of 1,600 purported noncitizens
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated Virginia's decision ahead of the Nov. 5 election to purge from its voter rolls about 1,600 people who state officials concluded were not Ame...
Oct 30, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The Supreme Court is pictured, in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 21, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/File Photo
20-year-old woman identified as second victim in fatal Peoria shooting in August
PEORIA, Ill. - A 20-year-old woman has been identified as the second victim in a fatal shooting in August. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Jakaiden Rynearson passed away Tuesday morning just ...
Oct 30, 2024
ComEd execs joked Madigan co-defendant was 'double agent,' utility's former top lawyer testifies
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - For decades, electric utility Commonwealth Edison renewed its contract with top Springfield lobbyist Mike McClain - in part because of his strategic abilities, but al...
Oct 30, 2024 The Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago, where former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is on trial for bribery, racketeering, extortion and wire fraud. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
Peoria Council approves 2025 budget, votes down keeping property taxes at current rate
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's City Council Tuesday night approved the $282 million proposed budget for 2025. City Manager Patrick Urich says next year's budget puts money towards streets, sewers and stormwa...
Oct 30, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
In U.S. swing states, officials brace for conspiracy theories and violence
DETROIT (Reuters) - With the U.S. election days just away, officials in the most competitive battleground states are bracing for misinformation, conspiracy theories, threats and possible violence. In ...
Oct 30, 2024 A vote challenger watches as election clerks process absentee ballots for the presidential election and feed them into a tabulator ahead of the polls closing November 5 at the Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. October 28, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
