Author Archives: Cooper Banks
Alleged Wisconsin parade attacker now faces arraignment on dozens of new charges
(UNDATED) -- There are dozens of new charges filed against the man accused in connection with a deadly incident during a Christmas parade in Wisconsin last year. 39-year-old Darrell Brooks Jr. now fac...
Jan 14, 2022 Police and emergency responders gather after a vehicle plowed through the Christmas Parade, leaving multiple people injured in Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S. November 21, 2021. Scott Ash-USA TODAY NETWORK via REUTERS
Far-right Oath Keepers first to be charged with seditious conspiracy in Capitol attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, Stewart Rhodes, and 10 alleged members of the group with seditious conspiracy for their ro...
Jan 13, 2022 Oath Keepers founder, Stewart Rhodes, speaks during the Patriots Day Free Speech Rally in Berkeley, California, U.S. April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
U.S. Ambassador: "The drumbeat of war is sounding loud, and the rhetoric has gotten...shrill."
VIENNA/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Poland's foreign minister said on Thursday that Europe was at risk of plunging into war as Russia said it was not yet calling time on diplomacy but that military experts were...
Jan 13, 2022 FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 file photo, President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia. An Associated Press review shows the idea of Ukrainian interference took root during Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was spread online and then amplified by Putin before some of America’s elected officials made it their truth. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Manchin's reluctance leaves Democrats' U.S. voting rights bill at risk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democrats' efforts to pass voting rights legislation in Congress appeared in jeopardy on Tuesday, as a centrist Democratic senator said he had little interest in a strategy...
Jan 11, 2022 U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) confer before addressing reporters following the weekly senate party caucus luncheons at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. July 9, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Arctic blast brings wind-chill alerts to northern U.S
(Reuters) - Arctic air blasting across the northern tier of the United States gripped parts of the High Plains, the Upper Midwest and New England on Monday, with wind-chill alerts posted from Montana ...
Jan 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A man walks his dog by the Ohio River during a snow storm in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. January 6, 2022. REUTERS/Amira Karaoud
U.S. and Russia still poles apart on Ukraine after Geneva talks
GENEVA (Reuters) -Russia and the United States gave no sign that they had narrowed their differences on Ukraine and wider European security in talks in Geneva on Monday, as Moscow repeated demands tha...
Jan 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: National flags of Russia and the U.S. fly at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Three men jailed following 2-hour police standoff in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill -- Three men are charged in the wake of a police call and hours-long standoff this weekend. Peoria Police say it happened during the pre-dawn hours Saturday. Just before 6:20 a.m., police ...
Jan 09, 2022 Left to Right: Erik Davidson, Wayne Boley, Billy Braswell (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Ameren Illinois: Supply chain issues didn't hit 2021 natural gas deliveries
Peoria, Ill -- Supply chain interruptions did not impact the flow of much needed natural gas to heat tens of thousands of homes across the central Illinois region. It's the assurance we get from Amere...
Jan 06, 2022 Photo: Ameren
Peoria hospitals seeing 'more sick COVID-19 patients than ever before'
Peoria, Ill -- Hospitals and medical centers across the Peoria area are under heavy strain amidst an unprecedented wave of incoming COVID-19 patients as well as ongoing staffing shortages. The quote f...
Jan 05, 2022 1470/100.3 WMBD-Mike Sabol
Bitter cold raises awareness of in-home pipe bursts and water main breaks
Peoria, Ill -- Illinois American Water continues monitoring their system for water main breaks as bitter cold puts pressure on pipes all across the region. As of mid-day Wednesday, there was no notice...
Jan 05, 2022
