Author Archives: Cooper Banks
No injuries reported after car slams into Peoria bar
UPDATED 6:00 a.m. 3/26/22 PEORIA, Ill. - There are no injuries reported in the wake of a crash involving a vehicle that slammed through the front of a Peoria area bar late Friday. First responders ini...
Mar 25, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
At least one person injured in afternoon Peoria house fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- One person is injured in the wake of a fire that struck at home in Peoria late Friday. Fire crews say they responded to the home near West Kneer Avenue and West Krause Avenue on Peoria...
Mar 25, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
In Poland, Biden visits U.S. troops on NATO eastern flank
RZESZOW, Poland (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday got a firsthand look at international efforts to help some of the millions of Ukrainian war refugees in Poland, and spoke to American tro...
Mar 25, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden meets with U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division at the G2 Arena in Jasionka, near Rzeszow, Poland, March 25, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
West united in support for Ukraine but EU split on Russian energy ban
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO offered Kyiv new military assistance and assigned more troops to its eastern flank on Thursday as London and Washington imposed fresh sanctions on Moscow in a show of Western ...
Mar 24, 2022 A Belgian delegation welcomes U.S. President Joe Biden, who arrives to attend an extraordinary NATO summit to discuss ongoing deterrence and defense efforts in response to Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Brussels, Belgium, March 23, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
N.Korea tests largest ICBM, White House condemns return to long-range launches
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea conducted what is thought to be its largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test ever on Thursday, the South Korean and Japanese militaries said, marking a drama...
Mar 24, 2022 FILE PHOTO: REUTERS/Edgar Su
Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of state, dies at 84
UPDATED 2:12 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two but rose to become the first female U.S. secretary of state ...
Mar 23, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks before an interview in Washington, U.S., November 28, 2016. Picture taken November 28, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Gov Pritzker says BA-2 sub variant impact remains muted for now in Illinois
Governor J.B. Pritzker says state officials have been keeping an eye on the emerging new COVID-19 sub variant that's surging in other parts of the world. It's led to China's first recorded COVID-19 de...
Mar 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Governor of Illinois Jay Robert Pritzker speaks during a science initiative event at the University of Chicago, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. July 23, 2020. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski
Reba McEntire joins growing list of historic live shows at Peoria Civic Center
PEORIA, Ill. -- The list of shows generating historic revenues at the Peoria Civic Center continues to grow. Country legend Reba McEntire played to a sold out crowd at the Civic Center Friday night an...
Mar 19, 2022 (File-Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD)
Russia launches hypersonic missiles as part of nuclear drills
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian leader Vladimir Putin oversaw strategic nuclear exercises involving the launch of hypersonic ballistic missiles and other weapons on Saturday, the latest show of strength at ...
Mar 19, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko observe training launches of ballistic missiles as part of the exercise of the strategic deterrence force, in Moscow, Russia February 19, 2022. Sputnik/Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS
Ukraine's Zelenskiy says it is time for meaningful security talks with Moscow
(Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday called for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow, saying Russia would otherwise need generations to recover from losses suffered during ...
Mar 19, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visits people who were injured while fleeing from Kyiv's outskirts as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, at a hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine March 17, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
