Category Archives: Top Stories
UPDATE: Teenager wanted for out-of-state double homicide arrested in Peoria
UPDATED 5:18 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have provided more information in regards to the arrest of Davion Clark on Tuesday. Peoria Police and members of the U.S Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fu...
Apr 24, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Columbia extends protest deadline after students agree to dismantle some tents
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Columbia University students agreed to take down "a significant number" of the dozens of tents set up on the school's main campus as part of a protest against Israel's incursion i...
Apr 24, 2024 Protesters continue to maintain the encampment on Columbia University campus, after a tense night of negotiations, in support of Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 24, 2024, REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
UPDATE: US Supreme Court split over Idaho's strict abortion ban in medical emergencies
UPDATED 12:13 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices, wading back into the battle over abortion access, appeared divided on Wednesday in a case pitting Idaho's strict Republican-backed...
Apr 24, 2024 People gather during a protest in support of "reproductive rights and emergency abortion care" , on the day the Supreme Court justices hear oral arguments over the legality of Idaho's Republican-backed, near-total abortion ban in medical-emergency situations, in Washington, U.S., April 24, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
UPDATED: Peoria County Coroner says crash victim not yet pronounced dead
UPDATED 10:57 A.M. PEORIA/KNOX COUNTIES, Ill. - Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says the victim in the crash has not been pronounced dead yet. He says further testing is being conducted Wednesday ...
Apr 24, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Trump hush money trial: what we've learned so far
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York on criminal charges of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly befor...
Apr 24, 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump walks with his attorney Todd Blanche, as his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 continues, at Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S., April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid/Pool
Peoria considering two new TIF district agreements
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria is considering a pair of special agreements that could bring more business to the city by way of tax increment financing (TIF) districts. At Tuesday night's city council meeting,...
Apr 24, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Biden signs Ukraine aid, TikTok ban bills after Republican battle
UPDATED 10:14 A.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden signed a hard-fought bill into law on Wednesday that provides billions of dollars of new U.S. aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia, notch...
Apr 24, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks after signing into law a bill providing billions of dollars of new aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia, at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 24, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
New eastbound McClugage Bridge nearing completion. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - The completion of the new eastbound McClugage Bridge connecting Peoria and East Peoria is only months away. Illinois Department of Transportation Construction Field Engineer Nick Volk s...
Apr 23, 2024 The new McClugage Bridge (right) is nearing completion next to the current McClugage Bridge. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Yale, NYU; Columbia cancels in-person classes
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Police arrested dozens of people at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan on Monday, as the war in Gaza continued to...
Apr 23, 2024 Protesters gather at the corner of Grove and College Streets after an encampment at Beinecke Plaza was broken up. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators call for Yale to disinvest from military weapons manufacturers, in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S., April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Melanie Stengel
11-year-old arrested after shots fired Monday night in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - An 11-year-old was arrested after shots were fired in South Peoria Monday night. Peoria Police says officers responded to the area of John H Gwynn Junior Avenue and MacArthur Highway ju...
Apr 23, 2024
