Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria Council considers options for anti-violence funding
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria City Council members spent a portion of their regular meeting on Tuesday discussing what to do with the latest round of violence prevention funding. Around $1.2 million is availa...
Dec 13, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
As deadline looms, assault weapons registration rules still unresolved
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Firearm owners in Illinois will have to wait at least another month before knowing exactly what items they must register with the Illinois State Police unde...
Dec 12, 2023 Illinois State Police acting chief legal counsel Suzanne Bond told lawmakers the agency has listened to gun owners’ concerns and made changes to the rules that were first proposed in September. (Capitol News Illinois)
UPDATE: Judge orders man charged with Pekin child death to remain in jail
UPDATED 6:22 P.M. PEKIN, Ill. - A Pekin man accused of killing his infant daughter will remain behind bars. As required by the state's new Pretrial Fairness Act, a Tazewell County judge Tuesday ruled ...
Dec 12, 2023 Hunter Waters (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Tazewell County Jail via 25 News)
United Nations demands humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations on Tuesday demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war after more than three-quarters of the 193-member General Assembly backed th...
Dec 12, 2023 Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan speaks to delegates during the United Nations General Assembly expected to vote on ceasefire resolution, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., December 12, 2023. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Zelenskiy met by Republican doubts in 11th hour push for US aid to fight Russia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy faced a skeptical reception from key Republicans during a trip to Washington on Tuesday to seek more military support against Russia, but ...
Dec 12, 2023 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses a speech to U.S. senators at the Capitol in Washington, U.S., December 12, 2023. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
Hasbro to lay off 900 more employees amid weak toy sales
(Reuters) -Hasbro said on Monday it would cut another 900 jobs globally, nearly a year after the toymaker announced it would reduce 15% of its workforce amid weaker sales. Hasbro had said in January i...
Dec 12, 2023 FILE PHOTO: People walk past the Beyblade Burst Speedstorm, by Hasbro, Inc., on display in the FAO Schwarz toy store in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
Restaurant owner admits to sales tax evasion
PEORIA, Ill. - The owner of a Vietnamese restaurant near the Bradley University campus has pleaded guilty to sales tax evasion. Peoria County Court records indicate Linh Luong, 54, made the plea Monda...
Dec 12, 2023 (25 News)
Biden says Netanyahu must change Israel government, losing global support
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs to change his hardline government and that Israel cannot say no in the future to a P...
Dec 12, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks, following a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, during a press conference in Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S., November 26, 2023. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
Stubbornly high rental costs lift US consumer inflation in November
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices unexpectedly rose in November as a decline in the cost of gasoline was more than offset by increases in rents, further evidence that the Federal Reserve was...
Dec 12, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A person shops in a supermarket in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
US issues sweeping sanctions targeting Russia over Ukraine war
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on hundreds of people and entities, including in China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, as it targets Russia's sanctions evas...
Dec 12, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A local resident stands next to a crater at a site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine December 11, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo
