Author Archives: Cooper Banks
Local riders hit the road for 16th St. Jude ride to Memphis
PEORIA, Ill. -- Roughly 200 motorcycles have left Peoria, headed south to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Thursday, many of them from the Peoria area. St. Jude Rides was started in Peoria 16 yea...
Sep 08, 2022 (Photo courtesy of Dave Gauf)
Fed officials reluctant to call inflation peak as policy meeting looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday said they still aren't convinced the worst of the U.S. inflation scare has passed, in comments that teed up a continuation of the central ...
Sep 07, 2022 The exterior of the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building is seen in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 14, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger
Collective bargaining talks for Peoria teachers could stretch 'into the night' - source
PEORIA, Ill. -- Today marks another key round of collective bargaining for representatives with the Peoria Federation of Teachers Local 780 and the Peoria Public School District 150 administrators. To...
Sep 07, 2022 (Peoria Federation of Teachers)
U.S. Senate Democrats could link same-sex marriage, gov't funding bills -source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic leadership in the U.S. Senate could add language protecting gay marriage rights to a stopgap measure to keep the federal government funded and running, in a bill that ...
Sep 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A U.S. Capitol Police officer stands on the Senate steps as storm clouds pass over the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. July 18, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Pritzker notes growth in Illinois electric vehicle manufacturing
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- State taxpayers are on the hook for $23 million in electric vehicle manufacturing incentives that will help grow the sector in Illinois. On Tuesday, Democratic Governor J.B. Pritz...
Sep 06, 2022 (File-State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service)
New Mexico county commissioner first to be removed from office over Jan. 6
(Reuters) -A New Mexico county commissioner became the first public official to lose their job for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol when a state judge on Tuesday ruled that ...
Sep 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Couy Griffin founder of "Cowboys for Trump" organization and commissioner of Otero County, New Mexico looks on as he speaks to media after leaving federal court in Washington, U.S., June 17, 2022. REUTERS/Tasos Katopodis
Mississippi city says water pressure restored for now but setbacks possible
(Reuters) -The city of Jackson, Mississippi, said most water pressure returned to normal on Sunday, a week after its main treatment plant failed, while U.S. officials warned it was still too early to ...
Sep 05, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Phillip Young, a local resident from Jackson, Mississippi takes a break while helping local volunteers with the distribution of bottles of water as city of Jackson and areas around are to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely after pumps at the water treatment plant failed, leading to the emergency distribution of bottled water and tanker trucks for 180,000 people, in Jackson, Mississippi, U.S., August 31, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
FBI found more than 11,000 government records at Trump's Florida home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during its Aug. 8 search at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, as well as 48 empty folders la...
Sep 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Donald Trump departs Trump Tower two days after FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach home, in New York City, New york, U.S., August 10, 2022. REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado/File Photo
Update: LaSalle County explosion leaves two dead, one identified
PERU, Ill. - Two people are dead after a house exploded this weekend in northern LaSalle County, Illinois, according to local authorities. A post on the LaSalle County Sheriff's Office Facebook page s...
Sep 04, 2022
PPD: Male victim found shot off West MLK Drive, later dies at hospital
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police are announcing details in their latest homicide case, reportedly tracing back to a multiple shots fired call from just before sun-up this morning. In a news release issue...
Sep 03, 2022 Midwest Communications
