Author Archives: Cooper Banks
Voters to test new paper ballot system in Primary Elections
PEORIA, Ill. -- It's primary election day in the Heart of Illinois with a wide range of political races and issues on local ballots. Voters are also encountering a newer paper ballot voting system. Ma...
Jun 28, 2022 Midwest Communications
Commercial tugboat sinks near Peoria's McClugage Bridge
PEORIA, Ill. --Down she goes. Police say a commercial tugboat operating near the McClugage Bridge experienced some kind of issue and sank to the bottom of the Illinois River this weekend. According to...
Jun 26, 2022 (Fondulac Park District Police via 25 News)
Hundreds protest Supreme Court abortion ruling in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Tempers have been flaring against Friday's historic announcement from the U.S. Supreme Court, reversing Roe v Wade and the federal precedent for legally protected abortions across the ...
Jun 26, 2022 25 News
Trump endorses Bailey in GOP primary just days ahead of vote counting
MENDON, Ill. -- One of the Republican front runners for the gubernatorial primary race in Illinois has earned a potentially controversial endorsement this weekend. During a rally at the fairgrounds in...
Jun 26, 2022 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Biden says G7 must stick together as gold sanctions target Putin's 'war machine'
SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden told allies "we have to stay together" against Russia, as world leaders met on Sunday at a G7 summit in the Bavarian Alps that will be domina...
Jun 26, 2022 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, U.S. President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and France's President Emmanuel Macron attend a round table for their first working session of G7 group at Bavaria's Schloss Elmau Castle, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany June 26, 2022. John MacDougall/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. House passes gun-safety legislation, sends to Biden
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed significant gun-safety legislation for the first time in three decades, sending it to President Joe Biden, who is expected to s...
Jun 24, 2022 U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appears with gun safety advocates before the House vote on gun safety legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert
Six killed in helicopter crash in West Virginia-report
(Reuters) - A helicopter used for tourism flights crashed onto a highway in West Virginia state on Wednesday, killing six people on board, local media reported. The helicopter, which was based at an a...
Jun 23, 2022 Midwest Communications
Ameren Illinois deflecting blame for sky high summer electricity bills
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- It's likely to be a long hot summer with sky high electricity bills, but officials with Ameren Illinois say there should also be plenty of relief for residents who are struggling ...
Jun 23, 2022 (Ameren Illinois)
East Peoria City Council working with law firm on PFAS in drinking water
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The East Peoria City Council votes to consider litigation about concerning levels of a chemical in the city's water. City Attorney Scott Brunton says that apparently like some othe...
Jun 22, 2022 (Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
At Jan. 6 Capitol riot hearing, election officials tell of harassment by Trump supporters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. state election officials on Tuesday recounted how supporters of Donald Trump threatened, insulted and harassed them, sometimes turning up at their homes, after they refused ...
Jun 21, 2022 Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling attend the fourth of eight planned public hearings of the U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. June 21, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
