Category Archives: Top Stories
GasBuddy: Peoria gas prices still falling as summer begins
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have dropped 6.5 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.57 on Monday, according to GasBuddy. Prices in Peoria are 10.7 cents lower than a month ago, ...
Jun 17, 2024 Orin Zebest / CC
UPDATE: Boy suffers life-threatening injuries after being shot Sunday in Peoria's East Bluff
UPDATED 4:26 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say an 8-year-old boy suffered life-threatening injuries after being shot in the head Sunday afternoon in the East Bluff. Officers arrived just before 5:...
Jun 17, 2024
CNN rules for first US presidential debate: no props, muted microphones
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first U.S. presidential debate between incumbent Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump on June 27 will include two commercial breaks, no props and muted microphones ex...
Jun 16, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Combination picture showing former U.S. President Donald Trump attending the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., November 6, 2023 and U.S. President Joe Biden participating in a meeting with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 1, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid and Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Trump visits Detroit church in bid to court Black voters
DETROIT (Reuters) -Donald Trump ventured on Saturday where few Republican presidential candidates tread - the city of Detroit, attending a community forum as part of a push to peel Black voters from P...
Jun 16, 2024 180 Church, Detroit, June 15, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Biden slams Supreme Court at $28 million fundraiser with Obama, Clooney, Julia Roberts
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -President Joe Biden slammed the U.S. Supreme Court as "out of kilter" at a glitzy fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday with former President Barack Obama and top Hollywood cele...
Jun 16, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden and former U.S. President Barack Obama share a laugh during a star-studded campaign fundraiser at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 15, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Kate, Princess of Wales, makes first public appearance since cancer diagnosis
LONDON (Reuters) -Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales, made her first public appearance on Saturday since surgery five months ago revealed the presence of cancer. Kate, wearing a pale outfit, rode in a ...
Jun 15, 2024 Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales attends the Trooping the Colour parade to honour Britain's King Charles on his official birthday in London, Britain, June 15, 2024. REUTERS/Hollie Adams
Two teenagers charged in connection to shootings in Peoria, one released from custody
PEORIA, Ill. - Two teenagers have been charged in connection to a pair of shootings from last weekend throughout Peoria. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office on Friday says a petition to detain...
Jun 14, 2024 courtroom gavel
US Justice Dept won't pursue contempt charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Friday told Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson that it would decline to pursue criminal contempt of Congress charges against ...
Jun 14, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before the House Judiciary Committee during a hearing entitled “Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice”, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden/File Photo
Coroner says autopsy on young girl who died after emergency plane landing in Peoria inconclusive
PEORIA, Ill. - An autopsy on a young girl who died after a medical emergency on a flight diverted to Peoria Thursday is inconclusive. That's the finding of Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood, announc...
Jun 14, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Teenager arrested on weapons charges after Grand Prairie area traffic stop
PEORIA, Ill. - A 17-year-old boy was arrested on weapons charges Thursday afternoon after a traffic stop in the Grand Prairie area. Peoria Police say a vehicle connected to a shooting investigation wa...
Jun 14, 2024 (File-25 News)
