Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria man faces grand jury-filed child porn charge
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has been charged by a grand jury with a discovery of alleged child pornography made last year. The grand jury Tuesday indicted Rodney Schneider, 43, with a Class-Two felony...
Feb 20, 2024 Rodney Schneider (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail January 2024)
Ahead of Pritzker's budget address, pressures that mounted last year intensify
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Republicans in the Illinois Senate indicated Tuesday that their sticking point for budget negotiations this year will be the same as it was last year - stat...
Feb 20, 2024 PHOTO: Senate Minority Leader John Curran (center) appears with fellow GOP Sens. Chapin Rose (left) and Tom Bennett (right) at a Statehouse news conference on Tuesday. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
City-owned building in Washington damaged by fire still usable
WASHINGTON, Ill. - A city-owned building in Washington can be repaired after a fire earlier this month. On February 9th, a building shared by the city's public works and police departments caught on f...
Feb 20, 2024 (TJ Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Two charged with murder in shooting at Super Bowl rally in Kansas City
UPDATED 7:08 P.M. (Reuters) -Two men are charged with murder for a gunfight on the fringe of a Super Bowl victory rally in Kansas City, Missouri, that killed one person and wounded more than 20 others...
Feb 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Police officers detain a person outside of Union Station following a shooting near an outdoor celebration of the NFL champion Chiefs' Super Bowl victory, in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. February 14, 2024 in this screen grab obtained from social media video. Alyssa Contreras/via REUTERS/File Photo
US Supreme Court rejects Virginia case over race in high school admissions
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined a chance to further restrict efforts to promote diversity in education, turning away an appeal by a coalition of parents and students who argued t...
Feb 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: View of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., January 8, 2024. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson
Peoria-based effort to donate emergency vehicles to Ukraine nears two-year anniversary
PEORIA, Ill. - As the war in Ukraine will soon move into its third year of conflict, so does an effort in Peoria to help support Ukrainians on the front lines against Russian forces. US Ambulances for...
Feb 20, 2024 A former AMT ambulance is delivered to Ukraine in 2022. (File-OSF HealthCare)
US Supreme Court wrestles with bid to challenge debit card 'swipe fee' rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday grappled with a North Dakota convenience store's challenge to a government regulation on debit card "swipe fees" - a case that could make i...
Feb 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Bank debit and credit cards are photographed in this illustration picture at an office in Frankfurt, Germany, March 17, 2016. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Three juveniles arrested for various incidents following Monday robbery attempt
PEORIA, Ill. - Three juveniles are in custody after Peoria Police arrested them for an alleged robbery Monday, and pinned two of them to charges in other cases. Peoria Police say it started around noo...
Feb 20, 2024 (File-25 News)
US military drone shot down near Yemen, US officials say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. military Mq-9 drone was shot down near Yemen by Iran-backed militants, two U.S. officials said on Tuesday, the second time such a shoot down has taken place in recent mon...
Feb 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone sits in a hanger at Amari Air Base, Estonia, July 1, 2020. REUTERS/Janis Laizans/File Photo
Peoria man's conviction for 2022 shooting thrown out by appellate court. Read the ruling here
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois appellate court has thrown out a Peoria man's conviction related to a 2022 shooting. The Fourth District Appellate Court ruled last week that now-31-year-old Kevin Boyc...
Feb 20, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois Department of Corrections)
