Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria Heights-based meat shop prepares for Super Bowl-related sales
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Super Bowl Sunday has become an unofficial holiday in the United States, full of gatherings with bountiful spreads of food. That's according to Pat Alwan, owner of Alwan and Son...
Feb 09, 2024 (Alwan and Sons Meat Company Facebook)
Russia, Ukraine swap 100 prisoners each -statements
(Reuters) -Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 100 prisoners of war from each side in the nearly two-year-old war, with the United Arab Emirates acting as an intermediary, both countries said on Thursda...
Feb 09, 2024 A still image from video, released by the Russian Defence Ministry, shows what it said to be captured Russian service personnel in a bus following the latest exchange of prisoners of war at an unknown location in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, in this image taken from handout footage released February 8, 2024. Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS
Suspect in first Peoria homicide of year arrested in Texas
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say a second suspect has been identified and arrested in connection with the city's first homicide of the year. Police say U.S. Marshals helped arrest Mickael Williams, 25...
Feb 09, 2024 Mickael Williams (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail July 2018)
Israeli PM orders military plan to evacuate Rafah and defeat Hamas
DOHA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's military on Friday to draw up a dual plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians from the crowded southern Gazan city of Rafah ...
Feb 09, 2024 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 8, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
NFL-Super Bowl ticket prices surge, on pace to be most expensive ever
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (Reuters) - Super Bowl ticket buyers are facing a price surge for Sunday's championship game owing to the dazzling, neon-lit setting of first-time host Las Vegas and 49ers fans' hope...
Feb 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A retail store selling Super Bowl XVIII souvenirs shows off a display of mannequins representing quarterbacks of both teams in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., February 8, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Trump wins Nevada, Virgin Islands to close in on Republican nomination
(Reuters) -Donald Trump won Republican presidential nominating caucuses in Nevada and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Thursday, moving closer to becoming his party's White House standard-bearer in a likely...
Feb 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally ahead of the Republican caucus in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., January 27, 2024. REUTERS/Ronda Churchill/File Photo
Fire Department closes Riverview Plaza Building in downtown Peoria. Here's what we know
UPDATED 11:45 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Fire Department shut down the Riverview Plaza Building Thursday night in downtown Peoria. It happened without prior notice to the building's tenants, which...
Feb 09, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
CEFCU makes $100K contribution to Phoenix Manor development
PEORIA, Ill. - CEFCU has committed $100,000 to help combat homelessness in Peoria. The capital equity commitment is going to Phoenix Manor, a permanent housing development that's being developed at th...
Feb 09, 2024 The former Methodist College Building in downtown Peoria is being developed into Phoenix Manor to help alleviate homelessness in the Peoria region )25 News)
More Petersen Health Care homes under receivership over unpaid debt. Here's where
CHICAGO - More assisted living facilities under the Peoria-based Petersen Healthcare umbrella are now no longer under the company's control. Documents filed Thursday in federal court in Chicago indica...
Feb 08, 2024 (Petersen Health Care)
Carle Health doctor explains stomach cancer
PEORIA, Ill. - Country music star Toby Keith died this week following a several year battle with stomach cancer. And while it's possible to get stomach cancer here, it doesn't happen all that much. "I...
Feb 08, 2024 (Carle Health)
