Category Archives: Top Stories
Man pleads not guilty to shooting following grand jury indictment
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has already pleaded not guilty after being indicted this week by a grand jury for a shooting a month ago. Nehemiah Garner, 19, entered the plea Wednesday, a day after being...
Mar 20, 2024 Nehemiah Garner (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
After being rebuffed by regulators, utilities file slimmed-down spending plans
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - State regulators are once again considering massive electric utility spending plans that would affect the state's climate goals - and 5.4 million electric custo...
Mar 20, 2024 Illinois Commerce Commission Chair Doug Scott presides over a commission meeting in Chicago in late January. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Netanyahu tells Republicans Gaza war will continue, days after Schumer speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Republican senators on Wednesday that Israel will continue its efforts to defeat the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the G...
Mar 20, 2024 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Jerusalem, February 18, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo
Grand jury charges two more in robbery attempt turned fatal
PEORIA, Ill. - The most recent two out of five people who have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery that left one person dead have been indicted by a grand jury. Counts of Armed Robbery a...
Mar 20, 2024 Jonathan Williams (left) and Tanarius Kingcade (right) (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Fed sees three 2024 rate cuts and shallower path as Powell backs go-slow approach
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday recent high inflation readings had not changed the underlying "story" of slowly easing price pressures in the U.S., but adde...
Mar 20, 2024 The Federal Reserve Building stands in Washington April 3, 2012. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
Metamora Grade School superintendent credits community after tax referendum passes
METAMORA, Ill. - The head of the Metamora Grade School district says he is "thrilled" with the passage of a tax rate increase referendum in Tuesday's elections. Voters in the school district were aske...
Mar 20, 2024 (Metamora Grade School)
Governor in Peoria: Illinois' tourism industry is booming
PEORIA, Ill. - Shattering records. That's what Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said about the state's tourism efforts, while speaking Wednesday at the Governor's Conference on Travel and Tourism at the ...
Mar 20, 2024 Governor JB Pritzker receives gifts from Discover Peoria CEO JD Dalfanso (right) during the Governor's Conference on Travel and Tourism at the Peoria Civic Center. (Screenshot of State of Illinois video)
UPDATE: Peoria police chief blasts judge's ruling to release man accused of pointing a gun at an officer
UPDATED 4:18 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's Police Chief says it's "beyond belief" that an Alabama man was released from jail, a day after allegedly pointing a gun at one of his officers. Chief Eric Ech...
Mar 20, 2024 Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria is joined by Peoria Police officers in speaking out against a judge's ruling to release an Alabama man accused of pointing a gun at a police officer during an attempted traffic stop in South Peoria. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US Congress struggling to reach spending deal to avert weekend shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fractured U.S. Congress struggled behind the scenes on Wednesday to produce a massive spending bill to fund defense, homeland security and other programs that lawmakers must p...
Mar 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: People walk past the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., January 18, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Trump can appeal ruling that kept Georgia prosecutor on case, judge says
UPDATE: 10:54 A.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Georgia judge on Wednesday said Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and eight of his co-defendants in the state's criminal election subversio...
Mar 20, 2024 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
