Category Archives: Top Stories
Developer looking to build community gym in Pekin, but location uncertain
PEKIN, Ill. - Randy Price is looking to build a community gym in Pekin that would feature basketball courts, volleyball, concerts, and even a walking track for the winter months. Price envisions the g...
Oct 26, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Jobs and unemployment both increase again in Peoria and throughout state
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The number of jobs is up once again in the Peoria area. Also once again, so is the number of unemployed. That's according to federal figures disseminated by the Illinois Department...
Oct 26, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried takes witness stand at his fraud trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sam Bankman-Fried briefly took the witness stand at his fraud trial on Thursday ahead of his testimony in his own defense on Thursday after prosecutors finished presenting their ca...
Oct 26, 2023 FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried attends as FBI agent Marc Troiano testifies as Bankman-Fried faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, at federal court in New York City, U.S., October 26, 2023 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Fire destroys South Peoria home
PEORIA, Ill. - A South Peoria home is being demolished after a late-morning fire. Peoria firefighters say the home near Hayes and Westmoreland was vacant when it became fully engulfed in flames around...
Oct 26, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
House approves framework allowing legislative staff to unionize
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Democrats in the Illinois House on Wednesday approved a measure to allow certain legislative staffers to unionize, following in the recent footsteps of lawm...
Oct 26, 2023 House Speaker Emanuel “Chirs” Welch, D-Hillside, speaks during debate on a bill that would allow legislative staff to unionize. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Proponents drop push to give downstate utilities dibs on new transmission lines
(Capitol News Illinois) - With billions of dollars of construction projects on the line, Ameren Illinois and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers have been vying to secure first rights ...
Oct 26, 2023 Rep. Larry Walsh Jr., D-Elwood, speaks to reporters alongside representatives of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Ameren Illinois and other proponents of giving utilities the right of first refusal for new electricity transmission line construction. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
US Representative Bowman pleads guilty to triggering fire alarm at Capitol
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman on Thursday pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge that he set off a false fire alarm in the Capitol weeks ago, prompting evacuation...
Oct 26, 2023 U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) speaks during the National Action Network National Convention in New York City, U.S., April 7, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
Maine governor says 18 killed in shooting attacks at bar, bowling alley
LEWISTON, Maine (Reuters) - Maine Governor Janet Mills said on Thursday that 18 people were killed and 13 were wounded when a man with a rifle attacked patrons at a bowling alley and a bar in the city...
Oct 26, 2023 Police, staged at the Lisbon High School, clear out of the area as an active search for a gunman is underway after Lewiston's deadly mass shootings, in Lisbon, Maine, U.S. October 26, 2023. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi
US economic growth accelerates in third quarter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in nearly two years in the third quarter as higher wages from a tight labor market helped to power consumer spending, again defying dire...
Oct 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Prices of fruit and vegetables are on display in a store in Brooklyn, New York City, U.S., March 29, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
Ford workers to return to work as UAW turns to GM, Stellantis
(Reuters) - Ford autoworkers were set to head back to work after the United Auto Workers (UAW) union reached a tentative labor deal with the company late Wednesday. Ford was the first of Detroit's Big...
Oct 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Striking United Auto Workers (UAW) members from the General Motors Lansing Delta Plant picket in Delta Township, Michigan U.S. September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
