Category Archives: Top Stories
Pritzker touts early successes of more early childhood program funding in Peoria Heights
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - It's only a year old, but Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says the "Smart Start" initiative making funding investments and changes that will help children birth to age five is wor...
Jan 18, 2024 Governor JB Pritzker and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton speak about the "Smart Start" initiative at Peoria Heights Grade School January 18, 2024 (State of Illinois video screenshot)
'Catholic Post' to cease publication; diocese cites several problems
PEORIA, Ill. - A longtime publication of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria is coming to an end. Bishop Louis Tylka says the Catholic Post will cease publication in the coming month. 25 News reports accor...
Jan 18, 2024 Bishop Louis Tylka blesses a stole worn by Father Jacques Marquette while on expeditions to the Illinois River (File-T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria man convicted of 2021 murder
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has been convicted of shooting and killing a man and injuring three others on the Fourth of July in 2021. Peoria County Court records indicate a jury Thursday deliberated f...
Jan 18, 2024 Eric Jackson (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail 2021)
City: Work to start making Adams and Jefferson two-way streets will begin in March. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - A long-talked-about project in Peoria is finally close to beginning. The City of Peoria says work will begin in March to convert Adams and Jefferson from one-way to two-way streets. The...
Jan 18, 2024 (City of Peoria)
UPDATE: US Congress passes bill to avert government shutdown, sends it to Biden
UPDATED 4:26 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a stopgap bill to fund the federal government through early March and avert a partial government shutdown...
Jan 18, 2024 People walk past a snowy U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., January 16, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/ File Photo
Texas school shooting victims 'deserved better' from police, US review finds
(Reuters) -Police failed in their response to the 2022 elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that killed 19 children and two teachers, the U.S. Justice Department concluded on Thursday, saying t...
Jan 18, 2024 Attendees hold candles during a vigil at Uvalde Memorial Park, one year after a gunman killed 19 children and two adults in Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2023. REUTERS/ Evan Garcia/ File Photo
Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler's guitar collection up for auction
LONDON (Reuters) - British musician and former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler is selling off a large part of his extensive guitar collection at a London auction with part of the proceeds going to...
Jan 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: British guitarist Mark Knopfler performs during the 44th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux July 15, 2010. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
Patchwork aid system and uncertain funding leave thousands of migrants in limbo
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - As Illinois faces sub-zero wind chills, thousands of recently arrived migrants are sleeping in precarious situations throughout Chicago and its suburbs - overcrowded ...
Jan 18, 2024 Pictured is the first building many migrants step into when they arrive in Chicago, the city’s “landing zone” facility. It’s nearly empty after bus transports from Texas were paused and migrants were moved to the city’s main library during a winter storm with dangerously low temperatures. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Second impeachment hearing held on Capitol Hill for DHS' Mayorkas
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. House lawmakers on Thursday held a second and final impeachment hearing against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Fox News reports the House Homelan...
Jan 18, 2024 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Resident escapes S. Peoria fire. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Firefighters were called to a South Peoria home Wednesday night. Crews arrived just after 9:30 p.m., finding smoke coming from the home on W. Ann Street, near S. Laramie. A resident of ...
Jan 18, 2024 Midwest Communications
