Category Archives: Top Stories
UPDATE: CEFCU says debit card PIN issues fixed
UPDATED 4:09 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - CEFCU says debit card PIN transactions should be back to normal after issues earlier Wednesday. The credit union says the issue was caused by system maintenance perfor...
May 08, 2024 (25 News)
Georgia appeals court to hear Trump's bid to disqualify Fani Willis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump notched another win on Wednesday in his campaign to slow the criminal cases against him when a Georgia appeals court agreed to hear his bid to disqualify the distric...
May 08, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis attends a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, March 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Alex Slitz/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
UPDATE: Florida woman identified as victim in fatal crash in Tazewell County
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - A 20-year-old woman from Florida is the victim in a fatal vehicle versus pedestrian crash early Wednesday morning. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley says the woman was pro...
May 08, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Thousands of youths at risk of losing access to after-school programs
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Advocates for community-based after-school programs say as many as 40,000 youths statewide could lose access to tutoring services, recreation and other extr...
May 08, 2024 Susan Stanton – ACT Now 240507: Susan Stanton, executive director of the advocacy group ACT Now, leads a rally calling on state lawmakers to provide funding to prevent after-school programs that serve an estimated 40,000 students statewide from being forced to close this summer. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
UPDATE: Battles rage around Rafah after US halts some weapons to Israel
UPDATED 12:41 P.M. CAIRO/WASHINGTON/RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) -Hamas battled Israeli troops on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip's crowded southern city of Rafah on Wednesday and Washington said it ha...
May 08, 2024 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 8, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
UPDATE: Strong storms to arrive this evening in central Illinois, but severe threat stays to the south
UPDATED 11:29 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Severe weather will appear to miss the Peoria area on Wednesday. The National Weather Service office in Lincoln predicts that severe storms will stay well south of ce...
May 08, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Residents displaced by fire Tuesday night in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a home on W. Kingsway Drive Tuesday night, on reports of a fire. Fire Battalion Chief Ryan Calhoun says crews arrived around 10 p.m., they found heavy...
May 08, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump documents trial start delayed indefinitely, judge orders
(Reuters) - Donald Trump's trial in Florida on charges of illegally keeping classified documents after leaving office has been indefinitely postponed, a judge decided on Tuesday, greatly reducing the ...
May 08, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the 2024 Senior Club Championship award ceremony at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. March 24, 2024. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo/File Photo
Lawsuit alleges sexual abuse was rampant in state-run juvenile detention centers
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Rampant sexual abuse occurred unchecked for decades at Illinois' juvenile detention centers, a new lawsuit filed on behalf of 95 former detainees alleges, c...
May 07, 2024 More than 90 people filed a lawsuit against the state, alleging decades of rampant sexual abuse at Illinois’ youth detention centers. (Capitol News Illinois illustration by Andrew Adams)
Two men arrested in South Peoria after being reportedly found passed out with weapons
PEORIA, Ill. - Two men were arrested in South Peoria early Monday morning after reportedly being found passed out with weapons. Peoria Police responded just before 5:00 A.M. to the area of Millman and...
May 07, 2024 Orlando Mathews (left) and Tristan Shelton (right) mugshots. (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
