Category Archives: National
Local leaders pushing to make Peoria global hub for biotech
PEORIA, Ill. -- Local leaders held an informational meeting Tuesday for Peoria Bio-Made, a push to make the city a global hub in the biotech industry. Jacob Becraft, co-founder and CEO of Strand Thera...
May 11, 2021 Courtesy: PeoriaBioMade.org
Biden says unemployed offered jobs must take them or lose benefits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday defended himself against critics who say expanded unemployment benefits offered in the COVID-19 relief bill passed in March are keeping America...
May 10, 2021 REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
U.S. turning the corner on pandemic, says White House COVID coordinator
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is turning the corner on the coronavirus pandemic and U.S. health officials are now focused on getting more Americans vaccinated, the White House COVID-19 respo...
May 09, 2021 REUTERS/Mike Blake
Obama family dog Bo, a 'constant, gentle presence', dies
(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Barack Obama's family dog Bo, a male Portuguese Water Dog with a mop of black and white fur who became a familiar playful sight around the White House, has died. Obam...
May 09, 2021 REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo
Biden's new goal: 70% of U.S. adults to get one vaccine dose by July 4
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a goal to have 70% of U.S. adults vaccinated with at least one COVID-19 shot by the July 4 Independence Day holiday, and urged young peo...
May 04, 2021 REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Biden set to ban most travel to U.S. from India to limit COVID-19 spread
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to impose new travel restrictions on India starting Tuesday in light of the COVID-19 epidemic, barring most non-U.S. citizens from entering ...
Apr 30, 2021 REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
UPDATE: Elmwood bank robber arrested in Springfield
UPDATE 4/21/21 2:15 P.M. -- John W. Beck was arrested Wednesday morning at a hotel in Springfield, Ill. at approximately 11:30 a.m. for a Livingston County warrant for Armed Robbery and a Department o...
Apr 21, 2021 Peoria County Sheriff's Office
Minneapolis ex-policeman Chauvin convicted of murder in Floyd case
***UPDATED*** 4/20/21 3:30 P.M. MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter in the deadly a...
Apr 20, 2021 REUTERS/Octavio Jones
Former U.S. vice president Walter Mondale dies at 93: media
Walter Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic voice of the late 20th century who was U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost in a historic landslide to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential el...
Apr 19, 2021 REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Minneapolis, other cities boost security ahead of Chauvin verdict
(Reuters) -- Minneapolis and other U.S. cities were ramping up security measures on Monday, girding for possible protests after a jury delivers a verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police offi...
Apr 19, 2021 REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi
