Category Archives: Top Stories
UPDATE: Republicans open Biden impeachment inquiry with focus on son's business dealings
UPDATED 2:19 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans leading an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden detailed foreign payments to members of his family in their first hearing on Thursday, but di...
Sep 28, 2023 House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) speaks as his aides hold boxes of what he said were thousands of pages of Biden family bank records subpoenaed by the committee as Chairman James Comer (R-KY) looks on during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee impeachment inquiry hearing into U.S. President Joe Biden, focused on his son Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2023. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
No one wins Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot
CHICAGO, Ill. - The Powerball numbers were not an exact match for any of the millions of tickets sold ahead of Wednesday night's drawing. Fox News reports that there were four tickets sold that missed...
Sep 28, 2023 (Powerball)
Takeaways from the second 2024 Republican presidential debate
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) -The seven Republicans on stage at their party's second 2024 presidential primary debate aimed on Wednesday to convince voters they could be a viable alternative to f...
Sep 28, 2023 North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former biotech executive Vivek Ramaswamy, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) and former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence pose at the start of the second Republican candidates' debate of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, U.S. September 27, 2023. REUTERS/David Swanson
Civic Center GM: Despite record revenue year, challenges in revenue and infrastructure remain. Here's what he means
PEORIA, Ill. - Many people say that the Peoria Civic Center is a drain on taxpayers, no matter how successful the Civic Center is. Civic Center General Manager Rik Edgar tells the Peoria City Council,...
Sep 27, 2023 (File-Julia Bradley/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
1 of 3 charged with 2021 shooting death convicted of murder
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is the first of three people charged with the murder of a Manual High School student two years ago, to be convicted. Court records indicate a jury Wednesday found Jeremy Mo...
Sep 27, 2023 (Left to Right): Jeremy Moore, Jr., Gary Irby, Tyranique White (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail October 2021)
Concerns mount over proposed CO2 pipeline. Read statements here
PEORIA, Ill. - One local official and one state lawmaker are among those expressing at least some concern about a proposed carbon dioxide collection pipeline that may go through parts of the area. Peo...
Sep 27, 2023 (25 News)
UPDATE: Welch introduces bill to allow legislative staff to unionize
UPDATED 2:52 P.M. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch, D-Hillside, has filed legislation that would, for the first time in Illinois, authorize legislative s...
Sep 27, 2023 House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch, D-Hillside (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Residents moving in and settling into first completed homes at former Taft Homes site
PEORIA, Ill. - Erica Jones was a resident in the former Taft Homes on NE Adams St. in Peoria. And she says living conditions in her house at Taft were not the best. "It was a lot of maintenance issues...
Sep 27, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Teen arrested on weapons charges after chase with police
PEORIA, Ill. - Another arrest of juveniles in Peoria - this one after what started as a stolen vehicle ended as a stolen gun investigation. Police say they saw two juveniles that matched the descripti...
Sep 27, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Police investigating 'suspicious' death
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say they're investigating a death they term "suspicious." Officers were called to an area near Arcadia and Peoria Avenues around 7:20 a.m. Wednesday where an adult man was...
Sep 27, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
