Author Archives: Cooper Banks
Illinois AG warns against student debt relief scams
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois residents are being warned about scammers, posing as student loan servicers offering instant debt relief and using high pressure tactics. Since the Biden Administration's...
Oct 25, 2022 WMBD/State of Illinois
Pritzker: Vaccines will prevent repeat of 2020 IL veterans home tragedy
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Governor J.B. Pritzker doesn't appear too concerned about a new outbreak of COVID-19 at the formerly infamous LaSalle Veterans Home in Illinois. During a press event in Chicago on Tue...
Oct 25, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Coroner's Office: Peoria's 21st homicide victim of 2022 is identified
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man shot and killed early Saturday morning in Peoria's 21st recorded homicide is now being identified by the Peoria County Coroner's office. According to an updated release, the vict...
Oct 24, 2022 Midwest Communications
St. Louis high school shooting leaves three dead, including suspect
(Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at a St. Louis high school on Monday morning, killing at least two people and wounding six others before officers fatally shot the suspect, the city's police commissio...
Oct 24, 2022
Sheriff's Office: Peoria county girl partially run over by lawn mower
ELMWOOD, Ill. -- A local child is being treated for severe injuries following a near tragic accident where she was partially run over by a lawn mower. Peoria County Sheriff's officials say it happened...
Oct 24, 2022
Michigan teen pleads guilty in school shooting that killed 4 students
(Reuters) -A Michigan teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to murder and terrorism charges in a mass shooting at a high school last year that killed four of his classmates and wounded more than half a do...
Oct 24, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Ethan Crumbley, 15, who is charged with the fatal shooting of four fellow students and the wounding of seven others, including a teacher at Oxford high school on November 30, 2021, is led away from the courtroom after a placement hearing at Oakland County circuit court in Pontiac, U.S. February 22, 2022. Picture taken February 22, 2022. David Guralnick/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Rishi Sunak to become Britain's next PM after months of turmoil
LONDON (Reuters) - Rishi Sunak will become Britain's next prime minister after he won the race on Monday to lead the Conservative Party, tasked with steering a deeply divided country through an econom...
Oct 24, 2022 New leader of the Britain's Conservative Party Rishi Sunak walks outside the Conservative Campaign Headquarters, in London, Britain October 24, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
Russian strikes cause blackouts in much of Ukraine, more flee Kherson
KYIV (Reuters) - Russian missiles pounded Ukrainian energy and other facilities on Saturday, causing blackouts in various regions, Kyiv said, while Russian occupation authorities in the southern city ...
Oct 23, 2022 Children evacuated from the Russian-controlled city of Kherson wait in a bus heading to Crimea, in the town of Oleshky, Kherson region, Russian-controlled Ukraine October 23, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
The power of one: Xi solidifies grip at party congress
BEIJING (Reuters) - China wrapped up its twice-a-decade leadership reshuffle on Sunday, with Xi Jinping securing a third term as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party and packing the new Pol...
Oct 23, 2022 Chinese President Xi Jinping waves after his speech as the new Politburo Standing Committee members meet the media following the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China October 23, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
U.S. appeals court temporarily blocks Biden's student loan forgiveness plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked President Joe Biden's plan to cancel billions of dollars in college student debt, one day after a judge dismissed a Republican-...
Oct 21, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about administration plans to forgive federal student loan debt during remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., August 24, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis
