Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria man's conviction for 2022 shooting thrown out by appellate court. Read the ruling here
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois appellate court has thrown out a Peoria man's conviction related to a 2022 shooting. The Fourth District Appellate Court ruled last week that now-31-year-old Kevin Boyc...
Feb 20, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois Department of Corrections)
US again vetoes UN action in Israel-Hamas war, blocks ceasefire call
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States on Tuesday again vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, blocking a demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefir...
Feb 20, 2024 Algeria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Sofiane Mimouni speaks before a vote on a U.N. Security Council resolution to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., February 20, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Trump says he'll appeal NY civil fraud verdict
NEW YORK CITY - As Donald Trump's legal team prepares to appeal the $355 million civil fraud ruling against him, there are questions over what exactly is at stake. Trump attorney Alina Habba insists t...
Feb 20, 2024 Matt Johnson / CC
UPDATE: 'We don't anoint kings': Nikki Haley pledges to continue campaign, defying Trump
UPDATED: 11:40 a.m. GREENVILLE, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican candidate Nikki Haley pledged to press ahead with her long-shot presidential bid on Tuesday, saying "we don't anoint kings in this...
Feb 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign visit ahead of the Republican presidential primary election in Camden, South Carolina, U.S. February 19, 2024. REUTERS/Randall Hill
WHO completes second Gaza hospital evacuation amid fighting
GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it had completed a second evacuation mission from Gaza's Nasser Hospital but voiced concern for nearly 150 patients and medics who remai...
Feb 20, 2024 Israeli soldiers operate, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in a location given as Nasser Hospital in Gaza in this picture released on February 18, 2024. Israel Defense Forces/Handout via REUTERS
Family of late Peoria Police Officer donates his union badge
PEORIA, Ill. - A family is honoring their fallen loved one - a retired Police Officer - by remembering what he devoted his career to doing.. "We would like to thank Officer Robert W. Molleck for servi...
Feb 19, 2024 (Peoria Police via Facebook)
Infrastructure topics focus of roundtable discussion with government leaders in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Government leaders gathered in Peoria for a roundtable discussion Monday related to infrastructure. One of the main topics of the discussion featured how to fill engineering jobs in the...
Feb 19, 2024 Local leaders discuss infrastructure topics during a roundtable at the Peoria Art Guild. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Firefighter accused of DUI, was also accused of DUI while driving Bartonville fire truck
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria Firefighter who allegedly got into trouble for drunk driving with another department several years ago is now in trouble for allegedly doing it again. Peoria County Jail record...
Feb 19, 2024 Caden Davis (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
California braces for more heavy rain - and possibly tornadoes
(Reuters) - California is bracing for heavy rainstorms on Monday that forecasters said might produce tornadoes, a relatively rare phenomenon for a state that has experienced other forms of extreme wea...
Feb 19, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Pritzker to mull tightening fiscal landscape in budget address this week
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker will give his sixth state budget address this week, laying out his plan for a fiscal year that government forecasters in November predicted...
Feb 19, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker is pictured during a previous State of the State address in the Illinois House chamber. He’ll give his 2024 address – his sixth as governor – on Wednesday, Feb. 21. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
