Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria City Council approves contract to reconstruct Wisconsin Ave.
PEORIA, Ill. - A major pathway in Peoria's East Bluff will receive much needed improvements. The Peoria City Council unanimously approved at Tuesday's meeting around $4.6 million to reconstruct Wiscon...
Mar 13, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Grand jury indicts two in separate felony sex cases
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury Tuesday indicted two people of trying to meet up with minors to have sex - both in separate cases. The grand jury formally filed one count of Indecent Solicit...
Mar 13, 2024 Gary Sherwin (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Man pleads not guilty to drug, weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man only faces two of three charges he was arrested on after a SWAT team raided his home about a month ago. Court records indicate Bennie Johnson, Jr., 36, pleaded not guilty a...
Mar 13, 2024 Bennie Johnson (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Yellen says expects rents, biggest contributor to inflation, to move down this year
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday said she expects the cost of rental housing - the single largest contributor to inflation - to move lower this year as new lease...
Mar 13, 2024 U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen delivers remarks on "Next Steps in the Evolution of Development Finance" at a Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, U.S., February 9, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Hunter Biden rejects House Republicans' call for public testimony
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden rejected a request to testify to an open hearing before a Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives committee conducting an ...
Mar 13, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, is seen as he makes a surprise appearance at a House Oversight Committee markup and meeting to vote on whether to hold Biden in contempt of Congress for failing to respond to a request to testify to the House last month, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 10, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Tazewell County Coroner identifies victim in fatal crash Tuesday south of Tremont
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - The Tazewell County Coroner says a man from Danvers was the victim in Tuesday afternoon's fatal crash on Townline Road, south of Tremont. Charles Hanley says Charles Jackson, 6...
Mar 13, 2024 Midwest Communications
Dollar Tree misses holiday-quarter estimates, to shut nearly 1,000 stores
(Reuters) -Dollar Tree missed market expectations for holiday-quarter sales and profit on Wednesday and laid out plans to shutter 970 of its Family Dollar stores, as the retailer looks to revamp the s...
Mar 13, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A Dollar Tree sign is seen outside the store in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2021. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo
Trump Georgia election subversion judge dismisses some charges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The judge in Donald Trump's Georgia election subversion trial on Wednesday dismissed some of the charges against the former U.S. president and some of his co-defendants, accordin...
Mar 13, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a campaign rally at the Forum River Center in Rome, Georgia, U.S. March 9, 2024. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer/File Photo
UPDATE: Bloomington woman identified in Wednesday morning fatal crash in Woodford County
UPDATED 2:44 P.M. WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. - The victim in Wednesday morning's fatal two-vehicle crash on Interstate 74 near Carlock has been identified. The crash occurred in the westbound lanes near mi...
Mar 13, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Peoria Heights residents complain about brown tap water
PEORIA, Ill. - Some residents in Peoria Heights are dealing with tap water that just doesn't look or smell right. They say it's discolored, smells like chlorine and they're worried it may not be safe ...
Mar 13, 2024 Discolored toilet water in Peoria Heights. (25 News)
