Author Archives: Cooper Banks
Democrats' Senate leader helps mark 13th Transgender Visibility Day
PEORIA, Ill. -- A group of Illinois Democratic lawmakers held a press conference today, marking the 13th annual International Transgender Day of Visibility. "It's always fitting to raise visibility ab...
Mar 31, 2022 St Sen. Kimberly Lightford (Illinois General Assembly)
Biden spurs record emergency oil release in 'moment of peril' for world
UPDATED 2:05 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday launched the largest release ever from the U.S. emergency oil reserve and challenged oil companies to drill more in an attempt t...
Mar 31, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The Bryan Mound Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an oil storage facility, is seen in this aerial photograph over Freeport, Texas, U.S., April 27, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Regional reaction to sudden Lincoln College closure announcement
PEORIA, Ill. -- The sudden closure of one college in Lincoln, Illinois is sending ripple affects across the entire Central Illinois region. State lawmakers, families and local leaders alike are all re...
Mar 31, 2022 Courtesy: Lincoln College Facebook
Russia bombards Kyiv outskirts, Chernihiv despite promise to scale back
MALA ROHAN/NEAR IRPIN, Ukraine (Reuters) - Russian forces bombarded the outskirts of Kyiv and a besieged city in northern Ukraine on Wednesday, a day after promising to scale down operations there in ...
Mar 30, 2022 Ukrainian service members walk on the front line near Kyiv as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, Ukraine March 29, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
No injuries reported after house fire in south side Peoria
UPDATED 2:44 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. -- There are no injuries reported in the wake of yet another fire in Peoria. Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Michael Hughes says crews were called to the 1800 block of Kette...
Mar 29, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Putin does not seem ready for compromise on Ukraine -U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin does not appear ready to make compromises to end the war in Ukraine, a senior U.S. official said on Monday as Ukraine and Russia were preparing f...
Mar 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with government members via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia March 23, 2022. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo
2-year-old boy dies after UTV crash that killed two others
PEORIA, Ill. -- A two year old child involved in an already deadly UTV crash in Tazewell County earlier this month has reportedly himself died from injuries sustained in the crash. The update is accor...
Mar 28, 2022 Midwest Communications
One injured following house fire in Alta area
PEORIA, Ill. --Peoria fire officials say one person is injured in the wake of a house fire late Saturday. It happened at a home in the 3800 block of West Hearthwood Avenue in some neighborhoods in the...
Mar 27, 2022 Midwest Communications
Russia hits Ukraine's Lviv with cruise missiles, defence ministry says
LONDON (Reuters) - Russia struck military targets in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv with high-precision cruise missiles, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday. Russia hit a fuel depot being ...
Mar 27, 2022 Rescuers work at a site of fuel storage facilities hit by cruise missiles, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Lviv, in this handout picture released March 27, 2022. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS
U.S. has no strategy of regime change in Russia, Blinken says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States has no strategy of regime change for Russia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on Sunday after President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimi...
Mar 27, 2022 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference with Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid at Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, March 27, 2022. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS
