Author Archives: Cooper Banks
Russia threatens to retaliate as Finland seeks to join NATO
HELSINKI/KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Finland said on Thursday it would apply to join NATO "without delay", with Sweden expected to follow, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine looked set to bring about th...
May 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Flags wave outside the Alliance headquarters ahead of a NATO Defence Ministers meeting, in Brussels, Belgium, October 21, 2021. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File Photo
Top House Republican gets subpoena from U.S. Capitol riot panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Congressman Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, and other lawmakers received subpoenas on Thursday from the House committee investigating las...
May 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: An explosion caused by a police munition is seen while supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump riot in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
IDOT crews spend hours repairing Wednesday road buckle on Route 6
PEORIA, Ill. -- Crews working with the Illinois Department of Transportation spent "several hours" repairing a major roadway buckle that happened late Wednesday as many local commuters were making the...
May 12, 2022 Cars drive along Tonnele Ave at the end of a road work in Union City, New Jersey, U.S. March 31, 2021. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Firefighters respond to blaze on River Beach Drive in Chillicothe
UPDATED 2:58 P.M. CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - Firefighters Wednesday battled a blaze at a home in Chillicothe, just off Illinois Route 29. Crews were called to the area of the 15400 block of River Beach Drive...
May 11, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria elected leaders vote to allocate $6.6M to short-term road improvements
PEORIA, Ill. -- One of the bumpier, cracked roadways in Peoria -- among others -- is now set for some much needed repair as a result of action at Tuesday night's Peoria City Council meeting. Council m...
May 11, 2022 Midwest Communications
Peoria poised to set records for high heat and warm lows Wednesday
PEORIA, Ill. -- It could be a record setting day for heat in the Peoria area today and we've already been in record-setting territory this week, according to the National Weather Service. NWS Forecast...
May 11, 2022
Investigators: Navin Jones' half brother did not die of SIDS in 2007
PEORIA, Ill. -- We're learning much more today about an old infant death case that is linked to the mother who now stands accused of killing her 8-year-old son here in Peoria. This is in relation to S...
May 10, 2022 25 News
Putin announces no new escalation on long awaited Victory Day
KYIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Vladimir Putin exhorted Russians to battle in a defiant Victory Day speech on Monday, but was silent about plans for any escalation in Ukraine, despite Western warnings he mig...
May 09, 2022 Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the Russian Land Forces Oleg Salyukov drive Aurus cabriolets during a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
Wisconsin anti-abortion center targeted by arson, police say
(Reuters) - The office of a conservative Wisconsin anti-abortion group was set on fire on Sunday, police said, days after it emerged that the Supreme Court is poised to reverse a landmark decision ens...
May 09, 2022 A threat is spray painted on the building wall near Wisconsin Family Action's offices in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. May 8, 2022. Molly Beck/USA TODAY NETWORK via REUTERS
Sixty feared dead in Ukraine school bombed by Russia, governor says
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) -As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said ...
May 08, 2022
