Category Archives: Top Stories
Tazewell County to save taxpayers over $110K a year on mailings
PEORIA, Ill. - Tazewell County has found a way to save a significant amount of money on some of its government bulk mailings. Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman says KnowInk, the company Tazewell Cou...
Jul 24, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Trump shooter searched online for JFK assassination, FBI director says
UPDATED 2:52 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The 20-year-old gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump did an online search of the John F. Kennedy assassination around the time he began to focus attention on t...
Jul 24, 2024 FILE PHOTO: FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on President Biden?s proposed budget request for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Missing NY man dies after being found in rural Peoria County
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - In what the Peoria County Sheriff describes as one of the most difficult searches ever done locally, authorities have found a missing 77-year-old man from Green Island, New York....
Jul 24, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Olympics-Salt Lake City confirmed as host of the 2034 Winter Olympic Games - IOC
PARIS (Reuters) - Salt Lake City was awarded the 2034 Winter Olympic Games on Wednesday following a vote of the International Olympic Committee. The U.S. city, which hosted the 2002 Winter Games, earn...
Jul 24, 2024 Paris 2024 Olympics - IOC Session 2030 & 2034 Announcements - Le Palais des Congres de Paris, Paris, France - July 24, 2024. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach announces the Salt Lake City Utah as the location for the Winter Olympics 2034 during the IOC Session. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Protests and politics as Israel's Netanyahu addresses US Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be greeted by deep divisions among U.S. lawmakers, a distracted U.S. public and large protests on Wednesday as he addresses the U....
Jul 24, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Families of Israeli hostages gather ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to a joint meeting of Congress, at the National Mall in Washington, U.S., July 23, 2024. REUTERS/Craig Hudson/File Photo
Victim from Tuesday morning's homicide in Peoria identified
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Coroner has identified a 31-year-old man killed early Tuesday morning when 20 shots were fired on Peoria's southside. Coroner Jamie Harwood says the victim, Quinterius...
Jul 24, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
DOJ confirms it is 'assessing the circumstances' of Sonya Massey shooting
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed late Tuesday that it is "assessing the circumstances" surrounding the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black woman by a...
Jul 23, 2024 Attorney Benjamin Crump, the renowned civil rights lawyer who is representing the family of Sonya Massey, speaks at a news conference Tuesday alongside Massey’s son, Malachi Hill Massey. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Grand jury indicts three men accused of burning pride flags in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has indicted three men on a felony hate crime charge related to allegedly stealing and burning pride flags last month. 21-year-old Noah Gohring, 18-year-old N...
Jul 23, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Israel tanks advance deeper in southern Gaza as more ceasefire talks expected
CAIRO/JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) -Palestinian residents of eastern neighbourhoods of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip fled their homes on Tuesday as Israeli tanks advanced deep into the area after...
Jul 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Palestinians flee the eastern part of Khan Younis as they travel in an animal-drawn cart after they were ordered by Israeli army to evacuate their neighborhoods, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 22, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo
Harris assails Trump, promises compassion over chaos in debut rally
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) -Vice President Kamala Harris assailed Donald Trump on Tuesday at her first campaign rally since replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate, while a Reu...
Jul 23, 2024 U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks during a campaign event, at West Allis Central High School, in West Allis, Wisconsin, U.S., July 23, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt
