Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria International Airport prepares for busy Christmas travel season
PEORIA, Ill. - Officials at Peoria International Airport expect a very busy end of the year as people travel for the holidays. Director of Airports Gene Olson says around 25-thousand seats are availab...
Dec 21, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Judge finds man not guilty of 2020 Peoria murder
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has been found not guilty of murder in a shooting more than three years ago. A judge filed the verdict Thursday after a bench trial last month in the case of Keon Patterson...
Dec 21, 2023 Midwest Communications
Giuliani seeks bankruptcy after $148 million judgment in defamation case -filing
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Trump ally Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, days after a jury decided he must pay more than $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers...
Dec 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani departs the U.S. District Courthouse after he was ordered to pay $148 million in his defamation case in Washington, U.S., December 15, 2023. REUTERS/Bonnie Cash/File Photo
UPDATE: Gunman kills 14 in unprecedented attack at Prague university
UPDATED 5:13 P.M. PRAGUE (Reuters) -A 24-year-old Czech student shot dead his father, then killed 14 people and wounded 25 others at his Prague university on Thursday before possibly killing himself, ...
Dec 21, 2023 A woman lights a candle in front of Charles University main building following the shooting at one of it's buildings in Prague, Czech Republic, December 21, 2023. REUTERS/David W Cerny
Analysis-Trump legal clashes reach US Supreme Court as 2024 election nears
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump transformed the U.S. Supreme Court during his four years as president. Now the 6-3 conservative majority he cemented will confront a handful of cases that may deter...
Dec 21, 2023 Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, U.S. December 19, 2023. REUTERS/Scott Morgan
Police investigating Tuesday evening armed robbery at South Peoria business
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating an armed robbery to a South Peoria business Tuesday evening. Police say two masked suspects, reportedly armed with handguns, entered the Auto Zone at Wes...
Dec 21, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US, China top military officials speak for first time in over a year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top U.S. military officer held a virtual meeting with his Chinese counterpart on Thursday, the Pentagon said, in the first such conversation in over a year amid hopes by U.S....
Dec 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: United States and Chinese flags are set up before a meeting between U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, Saturday, July 8, 2023. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Again...no Powerball winner Wednesday night
CHICAGO, Ill. - For the 30th consecutive drawing, there were no tickets sold with the numbers that would have cracked the jackpot Wednesday night, worth $576 million. The numbers were 27, 35, 41, 56, ...
Dec 21, 2023 (Powerball)
US Congress faces severe January tests over Ukraine, migration, budgets
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress left Washington this week for an extended holiday break with several key issues unsettled including emergency aid for Ukraine and tighter border security, sett...
Dec 21, 2023 The Statue of Freedom is seen at the top of the U.S. Capitol building dome in Washington, U.S., December 20, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Israeli strikes on Gaza intensify even as truce talks grow 'serious'
CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Fighting in the Gaza Strip escalated on Thursday with what residents described as some of the most intense Israeli bombardment of the war, even as the enemies held what...
Dec 21, 2023 Palestinians search for casualties at 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, December 20, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
