Category Archives: Top Stories
Pekin Police involved in SWAT situation with wanted man Wednesday
PEKIN, Ill. - Pekin Police have arrested a man in connection with a SWAT situation that happened Wednesday afternoon. The Police Department says they obtained a search warrant Wednesday for a home on ...
Aug 15, 2024 Pekin Police outside a home on Don Court Wednesday, during a standoff with a man inside a home there. (25 News)
US retail sales rise more than expected in July
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales rose more than expected in July, which could help to allay financial market fears of a sharp economic slowdown that were fanned by a jump in the unemployment r...
Aug 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Shoppers walk through the King of Prussia Mall, United States' largest retail shopping space, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, U.S., December 8, 2018. REUTERS/Mark Makela/File Photo
US announces prices in Medicare drug negotiations
(Reuters) - The U.S. announced the final prices of its first ever negotiation over prescription drugs on Thursday, with Merck's diabetes drug Januvia seeing the steepest percentage cut at 79%. The gov...
Aug 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. dollar banknote and medicines are seen in this illustration taken, June 27, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Peoria's Liv Warfield's run on America's Got Talent is over
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's Liv Warfield did not make it to the next round of NBC's America's Got Talent Wednesday night, despite having judge Simon Cowell in her corner. Warfield learned, along with the ...
Aug 15, 2024 Peoria native Liv Warfield performs on NBC's America's Got Talent in June, receiving the Golden Buzzer.
(NBC.com)
Trump attacks Harris policies - and persona - as allies push for messaging shift
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lobbed a series of personal and policy-based attacks at his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in a speech on Wednesday,...
Aug 15, 2024 Supporters of Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump fly flags next to a line of attendees waiting to enter his campaign event in Asheville, North Carolina, U.S. August 14, 2024. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake
Gena Rowlands, actress who played strong, troubled women, dead at 94
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Gena Rowlands, the acclaimed American actress, three-time Emmy winner and dual Oscar nominee for her vivid portrayals of strong, troubled women in the crime drama "Gloria" and "A W...
Aug 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Gena Rowlands poses for photographers at a ceremony where the actress places hand and footprints in the forecourt of the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Phil McCarten/File Photo
Attorneys for Sonya Massey's family call for legislative change
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Members of Sonya Massey's family and their attorneys called a news conference Wednesday to push for federal and state legislation in the wake of Massey's sh...
Aug 14, 2024 Attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family of Sonya Massey, is pictured at a rally in Chicago last month. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Peoria man found guilty in drowning death of wife in 2019
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has been found guilty in the murder of his wife in 2019. 25 News reports 68-year-old Michael Vorrath was found guilty Wednesday, after there were two previous mistrials. Hi...
Aug 14, 2024 Michael Vorrath (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail November 2019)
Ukraine says advance into Russia 'going well', creates strategic buffer
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine's forces advanced further into Russia's Kursk region on Wednesday as Kyiv said its gains would provide a strategic buffer zone to protect its border areas from Russian attacks....
Aug 14, 2024 A man reacts while standing next to burnt-out remains of cars in the courtyard of a multi-storey residential building, which according to local authorities was hit by debris from a destroyed Ukrainian missile, in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Kursk, Russia August 11, 2024. Kommersant Photo/Anatoliy Zhdanov via REUTERS/File Photo
Peoria man accused in shooting death of girlfriend ordered detained
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County judge ordered a man accused of shooting and killing his girlfriend to remain in jail. 25 News reports prosecutors testified at 43-year-old Stevie Linwood's detention hea...
Aug 14, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
