Category Archives: Top Stories
Preparations underway for annual Peoria Spring Home Show this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - Inspiration and ideas for home projects to tackle can be found at the Peoria Civic Center this weekend. The center's exhibit halls will host the annual Peoria Spring Home Show, hosted b...
Feb 21, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: From eliminating grocery tax to migrant crisis criticism, Pritzker gives State of the State/budget address. Find the proposals here
UPDATED 5:55 P.M. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Wednesday used part of his annual State of the State and budget address to criticize Republicans for their handling of the immigrati...
Feb 21, 2024 Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker gives his annual State of the State speech Feb. 21, 2024, to a joint session of the Illinois General Assembly. (Screen capture of illinois.gov web stream)
Rivian cuts jobs, sees annual production below estimates
(Reuters) -Rivian said on Wednesday it would cut its workforce by 10% and forecast EV production this year that widely missed estimates, hurt by downtime for factory upgrades and slowing demand for el...
Feb 21, 2024 A partially dismantled Rivian R1T electric truck is seen during its teardown at the Munro & Associates headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, U.S., June 3, 2022. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
UAW commits $40 million to organizing US auto, EV battery workers
(Reuters) -The United Auto Workers (UAW) said on Wednesday it was committing $40 million to organizing non-union automobile and EV battery workers in the United States over the next two years. The UAW...
Feb 21, 2024 An American flag flies in front of the United Auto Workers union logo on the front of the UAW Solidarity House in Detroit, Michigan, September 8, 2011. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
UPDATE: Biden brother appears in impeachment probe, Democrat cites 'disinformation'
UPDATED: 9:58 A.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's brother James Biden arrived on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to testify behind closed doors in a Republican-led impeachment inquiry, as...
Feb 21, 2024 The House Oversight and Accountability Committee holds an impeachment inquiry hearing into U.S. President Joe Biden, focused on his son Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2023. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File photo
Seven displaced by East Bluff fire overnight. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Seven people escaped a fire in Peoria's East Bluff early Wednesday morning. Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Hascall says crews arrived just before 2 a.m., finding a home on N. Central ...
Feb 21, 2024 Midwest Communications
Peoria Park District seeking input on statue replacement
PEORIA, Ill. - Roughly four years ago, the Christopher Columbus statue in Peoria's Upper Bradley Park was removed over controversy about his role in the deaths of Native Americans. The Peoria Park Dis...
Feb 21, 2024 (Peoria Park District)
Biden administration to cancel another $1.2 billion of student loans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration said on Wednesday it is cancelling $1.2 billion worth of student loans for some 153,000 people who are eligible under a program used to make...
Feb 21, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden walks up to members of the news media to give a statement before boarding Marine One for travel to California from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 20, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis
UPDATE: Two in custody for shooting in Bartonville. Here's what we know
UPDATED: 11:13 A.M. BARTONVILLE, Ill. - Illinois State Police say two people are now in custody following a double shooting Tuesday night in Bartonville. The ISP says the two victims were shot while i...
Feb 21, 2024 (25 News)
Jury seated in murder trial of St. Louis man accused in stabbing death of Peoria doctor
PEORIA, Ill. - A jury has been seated in the murder trial of Robert Ely. 25 News reports it took three hours on Tuesday to seat the five men and seven women who will serve on the jury. Ely, 57, is acc...
Feb 20, 2024 Robert Ely (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail 2021)
