Category Archives: Top Stories
Carle Health Greater Peoria to end Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO coverage
PEORIA, Ill. - Some area residents who use Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois' HMO plan are getting some changes at the start of the new year. According to a letter an HMO user sent to WMBD News last ...
Dec 26, 2023 (Carle Health)
Businesses glad Bob Michel Bridge construction is done
PEORIA, Ill. - Despite what you may have heard, the construction of the Bob Michel Bridge - expanding the bike and pedestrian paths - was only a month behind schedule. But for area businesses, the nin...
Dec 26, 2023 (Illinois Department of Transportation Traffic Camera)
Twitter violated contract by failing to pay millions in bonuses, US judge rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twitter violated contracts by failing to pay millions of dollars in bonuses that the social media company, now called X Corp, had promised its employees, a federal judge ruled o...
Dec 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The new logo of Twitter is seen in this illustration taken, July 24, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Powerball jackpot rises again
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Once again, no winner in the multi-state Powerball lottery drawing. No one matched all five numbers and the red Powerball number in the $660 million Christmas night drawing, though...
Dec 26, 2023 (Powerball)
Peoria-area gas price averages lower again in the last week
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria-area gas prices took another drop in the last week, even as analysts said their projections of a below-$3 per gallon national average by Christmas had to be scaled back. GasBuddy...
Dec 26, 2023 Orin Zebest / CC
UPDATE: UN alarmed by ongoing Israeli strikes in central Gaza that kill scores
UPDATED 12:04 P.M. CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel launched fresh airstrikes on Tuesday against central Gaza, where the United Nations voiced alarm over an escalation of attacks that have kill...
Dec 26, 2023 An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is seen silhouetted as the sun sets, amid the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near the Israel-Gaza border, in Southern Israel, December 25, 2023. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
US retaliates in Iraq after three US troops wounded in attack
(Reuters) -The U.S. military carried out retaliatory air strikes on Monday in Iraq after a one-way drone attack earlier in the day by Iran-aligned militants that left one U.S. service member in critic...
Dec 26, 2023 U.S. Secretary of Defense / CC
UPDATE: Apple files appeal after Biden administration allows US trade tribunal's ban on Apple Watch imports
UPDATED 8:25 a.m. (Reuters) -Apple filed an appeal on Tuesday of a decision to ban imports of Apple Watches based on a complaint from medical monitoring technology company Masimo after U.S. President ...
Dec 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: New Apple Watches Ultra 2 are displayed during the 'Wonderlust' event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S. September 12, 2023. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo
How to help those with stress, anxiety, and depression during the holidays
PEORIA, Ill. - If you feel a little more malaise this time of year, or if your heart starts to beat a bit faster, you're not alone. The American Psychological Association says 38 percent of people fee...
Dec 24, 2023 A scene of Christmas lights. (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Alabama woman with double uterus gives birth to rare twin girls
(Reuters) - An Alabama woman with a rare congenital anomaly that results in her having two uteri gave birth to healthy twin girls earlier this week. Kelsey Hatcher and husband Caleb welcomed Roxi Layl...
Dec 24, 2023 (University of Alabama at Birmingham via Reuters)
