Category Archives: Top Stories
As tax season begins, the IRS is already getting behind. Here's what we know
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tax season officially got underway on Monday, but issues with the IRS are already piling up. A report by the National Taxpayer Advocate - an independent watchdog group within the ag...
Jan 29, 2024 Midwest Communications
Peoria area gas prices even higher this week. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have jumped over 16 cents in the last week, averaging $3.23 on Monday, according to GasBuddy. Prices in Peoria are nearly 17 cents higher than a month ago, ...
Jan 29, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
UPDATE: Three US service members killed, 34 wounded in Jordan drone attack linked to Iran
UPDATE 11:11 a.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Three U.S. service members were killed and dozens wounded during an unmanned aerial drone attack on U.S. forces stationed in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian...
Jan 28, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at South Carolina’s First in the Nation Dinner at the State Fairgrounds in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S., January 27, 2024. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
No 'horsing' around for Dunlap woman about to compete in international equestrian competition
PEORIA, Ill. - A Dunlap woman is looking for your support as she is about to embark on a journey to South America to take part in what's called "the greatest test of horsemanship and wilderness skills...
Jan 28, 2024 (Laurie Kaplan via Facebook)
Police arrest man with knife near St. Peter's Square in Vatican
ROME (Reuters) - A man carrying a knife was arrested on Sunday during routine checks of people heading towards St. Peter's Square, a police spokesperson said, on the day the pope gives his weekly addr...
Jan 28, 2024 Kevin Gessner / CC
Microsoft to lay off 1,900 Activision Blizzard, Xbox staff
(Reuters) -Microsoft will let go of 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week, it said on Thursday, the latest cuts in the technology sector that has extended massive layoffs over the ...
Jan 28, 2024 Activision games "Call of Duty" are pictured in a store in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 18, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/ File Photo
Judge allows detention for one of two suspects in fatal armed robbery attempt
PEORIA, Ill. - New details are being released about the two people accused in what turned out to be a fatal armed robbery attempt almost two weeks ago. Peoria County State's Attorney Jodi Hoos' office...
Jan 28, 2024 Sontarrius Williams (left) and Jaylyn Branscumb (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Impeachment articles against Mayorkas released
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Republicans in the U.S. House Sunday morning have released two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. FOX News reports Mayorkas is being cha...
Jan 28, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas attends a House Homeland Security Committee hearing examining worldwide threats to the U.S., on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Biden backs Senate border deal, vows to 'shut down the border' when overwhelmed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Friday that the border deal being negotiated in the U.S. Senate was the "toughest and fairest" set of reforms possible and vowed to "shut down the bor...
Jan 27, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech during a campaign event at the Mother Emanuel AME Church, the site of the 2015 mass shooting, in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., January 8, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
IDOT: Pothole repairs are going on statewide
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is asking drivers to slow down and move over for road crews that are busy repairing potholes on the state's highways and interstate...
Jan 27, 2024 DDohler / CC
