Category Archives: Top Stories
High school students across Illinois are crowning a chess champion in Peoria this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - There's a competition this weekend at the Peoria Civic Center that's a little quieter than what you would typically expect from a Bradley Braves or Peoria Rivermen game. The Illinois Hi...
Feb 10, 2024 Dunlap and Elgin in a match at the 2024 IHSA State Chess Finals at the Peoria Civic Center Ballroom. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Negotiations over contracts represent about 3,800 Teamsters around the state
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Several Teamsters unions representing thousands of state highway workers have authorized strikes as contract negotiations between them and the state's Depar...
Feb 10, 2024 (Illinois Department of Transportation)
Palestinians brace for Rafah assault as Israel promises evacuation plan
DOHA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli air strikes killed 17 people in Gaza's Rafah overnight, medics said on Saturday, as over a million Palestinians cramming into the border city await a full-blown offen...
Feb 10, 2024 Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, take shelter in a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the border with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 8, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Trump vows to undo Biden gun restrictions if re-elected
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner in the 2024 presidential race, said on Friday he had firmly protected gun rights while in the White House ...
Feb 10, 2024 Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends the National Rifle Association (NRA) Presidential Forum at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., February 9, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Biden accuses Congress of 'neglect' over Ukraine, meets with Germany's Scholz
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said Congress would be guilty of "close to criminal neglect" if it failed to pass funding for Ukraine and thanked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday...
Feb 09, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden meets with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 9, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
UPDATE: Two dead after jet plane crash lands on Florida highway, collides with vehicle
UPDATED 4:37 P.M. (Reuters) -A small jet airplane crash-landed on Friday on a busy Florida interstate highway and burst into flames after colliding with a vehicle, killing at least two people, accordi...
Feb 09, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Former lawmaker taken into custody amid delays to his corruption trial after sudden hospitalization
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Former Republican State Sen. Sam McCann, a onetime third-party candidate for governor, was taken into custody Friday morning ahead of his federal corruption...
Feb 09, 2024 Former GOP state Sen. Sam McCann’s pickup truck – the same make and model of a truck named as an illicit purchase in his indictment – is parked outside of the Paul Findley Federal Courthouse in Springfield, where McCann was supposed to have faced a corruption trial this week. Instead, he checked himself into the hospital over the weekend and his trial was delayed until Monday. The judge in the case ordered McCann detained Friday until the trial’s new start date, accusing McCann of making “excuses.” (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
UPDATED: Street sweeper part of damage after a fire to a city-owned building in Washington
UPDATED 5:19 P.M. WASHINGTON, Ill. - A city of Washington garage suffered damage after a fire Friday afternoon that appears to have started in a vehicle. Washington Assistant Fire Chief Tyler Gee says...
Feb 09, 2024 (TJ Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
NWS: Hail in Peoria, but at least one tornado reported with Thursday storms
MARSHALL AND PUTNAM COUNTIES, Ill. - What the National Weather Service called a "small complex" of storms caused mostly hail in the Peoria, but to our north, at least one tornado. The Weather Service ...
Feb 09, 2024 (National Weather Service, Lincoln, IL)
Special counsel report on Biden is inaccurate, gratuitous -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Friday sharply criticized a report from a Department of Justice special counsel that suggested President Joe Biden was suffering memory lapses, saying it incl...
Feb 09, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 8, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
