Category Archives: Breaking News
UPDATE: Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies after stroke and cardiac arrest
UPDATED 3:40 P.M. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday after suffering a stroke and cardiac arrest, the Vatican said, endi...
Apr 21, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Newly elected Pope Francis appears at the window of his future private apartment to bless the faithful, gathered below in St. Peter's Square, during the Sunday Angelus prayer at the Vatican March 17, 2013. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo
UPDATE: At least seven people dead in Philadelphia plane crash, officials say
UPDATED 11:17 A.M. (Reuters) - At least seven people died when a medevac plane crashed in Philadelphia on Friday, including six Mexicans aboard the plane and one person who was on the ground, Mexico's...
Feb 01, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Debris of the aircraft lies on the ground at the site of a plane crash in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., January 31, 2025. REUTERS/Rachel Wisniewski/File Photo
Federal judge strikes down Illinois assault weapons ban, setting up likely appeal
SPRINGFIELD - A federal judge in East St. Louis on Friday struck down Illinois' assault weapons ban on the grounds that it violates the Second and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution and issued a...
Nov 08, 2024 The U.S. District Courthouse is pictured in East St. Louis. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Chicago woman indicted in connection to death of infant son, infant's cause of death determined
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Coroner says the death of an infant boy last month was due to cocaine intoxication. Jaime Harwood announced Tuesday that was the cause of death for one-month-old Grays...
Oct 15, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader, dies at 93
LOS ANGELES - American actor James Earl Jones, an imposing stage and screen presence who overcame a childhood stutter to develop a stentorian voice recognized the world over as intergalactic villain D...
Sep 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: 71st Tony Awards – Show – New York City, U.S., 11/06/2017 - James Earl Jones - Tony Lifetime Achievement. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
One person dead after South Peoria shooting Wednesday night
PEORIA, Ill. - A shooting in South Peoria Wednesday night has left one man dead. Peoria Police say the shooting near Martin Luther King Junior Park left a second man with life-threatening injuries. Of...
Sep 04, 2024 (25 News)
RFK Jr suspends US presidential campaign, endorses Trump
(Reuters) - Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Friday he would suspend his campaign, and endorsed Republican Donald Trump, likely ending a presidential bid that he began ...
Aug 23, 2024 Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes an announcement on the future of his campaign in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. August 23, 2024. REUTERS/Thomas Machowicz
Sangamon County sheriff says he'll retire by end of month in wake of Massey shooting
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A little over a month after the shooting death of Sonya Massey by a sheriff's deputy, Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell on Friday announced his retireme...
Aug 09, 2024 Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell announced he would retire at the end of the month. (Illustration by Capitol News Illinois; Campbell photo provided by Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office)
Man arrested in connection to South Peoria shooting death in August 2023
PEORIA, Ill. - The execution of a search warrant Tuesday morning led to the arrest of a homicide from last August in Peoria. Peoria Police say 24-year-old Rashaard Nunn was taken into custody just bef...
Jul 02, 2024
UPDATE: Jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts at hush money trial
UPDATED 4:56 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime on Thursday when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a pa...
May 30, 2024 Former President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan Criminal Court, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. Seth Wenig/Pool via REUTERS
