Category Archives: Top Stories
Victim in fatal crash in rural Tazewell County identified
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - A 35-year-old man has been identified as the victim in a fatal single-vehicle crash Tuesday evening in rural Tazewell County. Coroner Charles Hanley says Christopher Murray of ...
Feb 27, 2026 (Midwest Communications)
Man arrested after allegedly showing weapon during Peoria road rage incident
PEORIA, Ill. - A man was arrested after a road rage incident Thursday afternoon in Peoria. Peoria Police says the incident occurred in the area of Sheridan and Lake just after 12:45 P.M. The adult mal...
Feb 27, 2026 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
US charges 30 more in anti-ICE protest at Minnesota church
Feb 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Friday charged 30 more people accused of disrupting a Minnesota church service last month in protest of the Trump administration's immigration enforce...
Feb 27, 2026 U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi departs following U.S. President Donald Trump's State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 24, 2026. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper
High schoolers flood state Capitol to advocate for drug abuse prevention bills
Article Summary The Illinois Prevention Network rallied high school students to lobby state legislators to pass drug and alcohol regulation bills. House Bill 4333 aims to lower the legal blood-alcohol...
Feb 27, 2026 Students with the Illinois Prevention Network at the Capitol on Wednesday pushing bills aimed at drug regulation and reduction. (Medill Illinois News Bureau, courtesy of Kate Bell, Illinois Prevention Network)
Woman sentenced for hijacking at Peoria shopping center
PEORIA, Ill. - A woman has received the maximum sentence possible after hijacking at a Peoria strip mall last summer. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 33-year-old Taccara Dear to 12 ye...
Feb 27, 2026 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump raises prospect of 'friendly takeover' of Cuba, says Rubio in talks
WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday raised the prospect of a "friendly takeover" of Cuba, telling reporters at the White House that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was ...
Feb 27, 2026 U.S. President Donald Trump waves before boarding Air Force One as he departs for Corpus Christi, Texas, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., February 27, 2026. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Man sentenced after sexual predator sting operation by Chillicothe Police
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County judge sentenced a man Friday after being caught in an online sting operation to catch sexual predators. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 39-year-old Domi...
Feb 27, 2026 courtroom gavel
The Spring Home Show returns to the Peoria Civic Center this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - The 2026 Official Spring Home Show gets underway Friday at the Peoria Civic Center. The Home Show's Andy Knapp tells WMBD's "Greg and Dan" that it's a one-stop shop for everything you n...
Feb 27, 2026 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Legislators, activists continue push for prescription drug affordability board
Article Summary Citing high prescription drug prices, lawmakers and activists are reviving a dormant push to create an Illinois prescription drug affordability board. The board would be able to set th...
Feb 27, 2026 Citizen Action/Illinois Executive Director Anusha Thotakura speaks at a
rally in the state capitol building on Feb. 17. Citizen Action rallied in support of
legislation to establish a prescription drug affordability board. (Capitol News Illinois
photo by Jenna Schweikert)
US-Iran talks end with no deal but potential signs of progress
By Parisa Hafezi and Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The United States and Iran made progress in talks over Tehran's nuclear program on Thursday, mediator Oman said, but hours of negotia...
Feb 27, 2026 Demonstrators hold images of Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's last shah and an Iranian opposition figure, during a protest against Iran's government in front of the United Nations Office at Geneva, on the day of a new round of indirect U.S.-Iran talks over their long-running nuclear dispute, in Geneva, Switzerland, February 26, 2026. REUTERS/Pierre Alb
