Author Archives: Cooper Banks
ISP: Driver crashed off I-74 Tuesday 'for unknown reason'
PEORIA, Ill. -- Illinois State Police are offering more information about a traffic rash that slowed drivers on Interstate 74 for hours this week. Illinois State Police say a 48-year-old woman driving...
Jun 01, 2022 Midwest Communications
Jury rules Amber Heard defamed Johnny Depp
(Reuters) - A Virginia jury on Wednesday ruled that actor Amber Heard defamed her ex-husband Johnny Depp in a widely watched six-week trial that featured explicit and graphic evidence and testimony de...
Jun 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Actor Johnny Depp gestures as he leaves the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse following his defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S., May 27, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Biden, baby formula execs to meet on efforts to ease shortage
(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with major infant formula manufacturers on Wednesday as his administration presses ahead with efforts to boost imported supplies to help ease a nationwide...
Jun 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Similac and Enfamil products are seen on largely empty shelves in the baby formula section of a Target store, amid continuing nationwide shortages in infant and toddler formula, in San Diego, California, U.S., May 25, 2022. REUTERS/Bing Guan
Three injured, one flown to hospital following Tuesday I-74 crash
PEORIA, Ill. -- Three people are injured following a crash that backed traffic up along Interstate 74 west of Peoria. It happened Tuesday afternoon in the eastbound lanes of I-74 approaching Exit 82. ...
May 31, 2022 Midwest Communications
Biden says he will meet with Congress about guns after Texas shooting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he planned to meet with lawmakers in Congress about guns after the Texas elementary school shooting last week in which 19 children and tw...
May 31, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden pay their respects at the Robb Elementary School memorial, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in the deadliest U.S. school shooting in nearly a decade, in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. May 29, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
UPDATE: Autopsy inconclusive after Sunday Summer Camp death uncovered
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. -- Authorities are updating information in the case of a person founde dead at the Summer Camp Music Festival over the weekend. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says an autopsy to...
May 31, 2022 Highway Patrol Images / CC
Biden emphasized Fed independence in meeting with Powell - aide
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell met on Tuesday to discuss historic inflation that is draining Americans' pocketbooks. The meeting, the first since Powell's...
May 31, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the March jobs report, during a speech in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 1, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
UPDATE: No injuries reported after Grand Bear Resort blaze
PEORIA, Ill. -- 61 fire departments and a million gallons of water. That's what it took to contain a fire which broke out and devastated half-a-dozen structures at the Grand Bear Resort at Starved Roc...
May 31, 2022 Courtesy Josh Robson & 25 News
UPDATE: One found dead at Summer Camp festival
UPDATE: 5:54 p.m. CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - We're learning more about a man who was found dead at Summer Camp this past Memorial Day weekend. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood identifies the deceased indi...
May 31, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Update: Several cabins destroyed at Grand Bear Resort
UPDATE (4:30 a.m.) - Several cabins were a total loss after fire tore through buildings at Grand Bear Resort near Starved Rock State Park late Monday afternoon. Utica Assistant Fire Chief Drew Partain...
May 30, 2022 Courtesy Josh Robson & 25 News
