Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria streets very drivable, crews focus on main routes for now
PEORIA, Ill. - A break in snowfall Tuesday afternoon allowed crews to start plowing and treating residential streets in Peoria, but their focus returned to the main routes overnight, according to Peor...
Jan 10, 2024 Peoria snowplow on the streets following the first real snow storm of 2024. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD--TJ Carson)
US Senate Republicans say stopgap needed to avert shutdown, potential problem for Johnson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans said on Tuesday that a short-term funding measure will be needed to avert a partial federal government shutdown beginning in 10 days - a notion Republica...
Jan 09, 2024 The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., January 8, 2024. Congress has less than two weeks to negotiate a deal to avert the start of a partial government shutdown. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson/File Photo
Sinead O'Connor died of natural causes, London coroner says
LONDON (Reuters) - Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who was found unresponsive at an address in London in July last year, died of natural causes, the coroner said on Tuesday. O'Connor, known for her stir...
Jan 09, 2024 A picture of late singer Sinead O'Connor, who died at the age of 56, known for her chart-topping hit "Nothing Compares 2 U", is placed around floral tributes outside her former Irish home, in the seaside town of Bray in County Wicklow, Ireland, July 27, 2023. REUTERS/Damien Storan/File Photo
Peoria area sees up to five inches of snow after first wave of winter storm Tuesday with more snow coming
LINCOLN, Ill. - The Peoria area has so far seen 3-5" of snow in the first winter storm of the season. That's what the National Weather Service office in Lincoln is estimating for the storm that began ...
Jan 09, 2024 Snow on trees and power lines near Junction City off Prospect Road after a winter storm on January 9th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US Defense Secretary Austin hospitalized for infection after prostate cancer surgery
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was hospitalized on Jan. 1 with a urinary tract infection following a December surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer, Walter Reed Nat...
Jan 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attends a welcome ceremony before an annual security meeting with South Korean Defence Minister Shin Won-sik at the Defence Ministry in Seoul, South Korea on November 13, 2023. JUNG YEON-JE/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
US top diplomat urges Israel to avoid harming civilians in Gaza
GAZA/TEL AVIV/CAIRO (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged Israeli leaders to avoid harming civilians as it presses its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and told them c...
Jan 09, 2024 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Israel's President Isaac Herzog, during his week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East, at David Kempinski Hotel, in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 9, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool
Peoria High School promotes from within for new football coach
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria High School football team did not have to look far to find its new head coach. Aaron Montgomery was appointed on Monday to lead the Lions. Montgomery is a 2004 graduate of Pe...
Jan 09, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Though Tazewell County hasn't seen much snow so far, highway crews are ready
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill - Though much of Peoria County woke up to snow Tuesday morning, Tazewell County for the most part has had mostly liquid precipitation in the first snowstorm of the year. Engineer ...
Jan 09, 2024 (Tazewell County)
Trump presses immunity claim, says he could prosecute Biden if re-elected
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump warned on Tuesday he could prosecute Joe Biden if he returns to the White House, as Washington appeals court judges expressed skepticism at the former U.S. president...
Jan 09, 2024 Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event, in Clinton, Iowa, U.S., January 6, 2024. REUTERS/Cheney Orr/ File Photo
Peoria County snow plows continue clearing roads during fresh snowfall Tuesday
PEORIA, Ill. - The work continues into Tuesday for Peoria County snow plow crews as the first winter storm of the season impacts central Illinois. County Engineer Amy McLaren says crews were out Monda...
Jan 09, 2024 A Peoria County Highway Department snow plow works to clear roads in the Dunlap area during a winter storm on January 9th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
