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CityLink to offer shuttle service to PIA and Peoria Co. Jail
PEORIA, Ill. - CityLink will be offering shuttle service to Peoria International Airport and the Peoria County Jail due to road construction in the area. Beginning January 2, Illinois Route 116 Harmon...
Dec 30, 2025 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Will Stevenson)
US strikes drug boat loading facility in Venezuela, Trump says
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, Dec 29 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday that the U.S. had "hit" an area in Venezuela where boats are loaded with drugs, marking the first known time Washingt...
Dec 30, 2025 U.S. and Venezuelan flags appear in this illustration taken December 2, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Trump administration sues Illinois over state law limiting federal immigration actions
Article Summary The Trump administration filed a lawsuit seeking to nullify a new state law that allows Illinois residents to sue federal immigration agents who arrest them in or near courthouses or i...
Dec 30, 2025 The federal courthouse for the Southern District of Illinois is pictured in East St. Louis. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Peter Hancock)
Man detained for alleged role in August shooting at Peoria apartments
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man must remain in jail after his Christmas Day arrest in connection to an August shooting at an apartment complex. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 30-year-old...
Dec 29, 2025 courtroom gavel
Cause of death for Mackinaw man in fatal Christmas Eve crash revealed
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - The cause of death for a Mackinaw man who died in a Christmas Eve crash in rural Tazewell County has been released. Coroner Charles Hanley says 62-year-old John Stone was prono...
Dec 29, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Tiskilwa man arrested for allegedly attempting to meet minor in Woodford County
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. - A Tiskilwa man has been arrested in Woodford County for allegedly attempting to meet up with a minor. Woodford County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Dennis Tipsword says 54-year...
Dec 29, 2025
Teenager sentenced for weapons charge in connection to January incident in North Valley
PEORIA, Ill. - A teenager will spend the next few years in prison after pleading guilty to a weapons charge in connection to a January incident in Peoria's North Valley. 18-year-old Kentrell Joiner wa...
Dec 29, 2025 courtroom gavel
Washington pipe bomb suspect has confessed, prosecutors say
WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington the night before the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack confessed to the FBI and told investigators he thought the...
Dec 29, 2025 A suspect in the planting of explosive devices near the Democratic and Republican committee headquarters in Washington is seen walking past the Capitol Hill Club, also known as the National Republican Club of Capitol Hill, in Washington in this still frame taken from video released on March 9, 2021. FBI/Handout via REUTERS
FBI investigating Minnesota fraud scheme, director says
WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (Reuters) - The FBI has "surged" investigative resources and personnel to Minnesota, bureau Director Kash Patel said on Sunday, in the latest instance of the Trump administration's ...
Dec 29, 2025 Kash Patel speaks after being sworn in as FBI director by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) on the White House campus in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 21, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis
US pledges $2 billion in humanitarian support to UN, State Department says
GENEVA/WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The United States on Monday pledged $2 billion in life-saving assistance to tens of millions of people facing hunger and disease in more than a dozen countries ne...
Dec 29, 2025 A Palestinian girl gestures as she waits to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, August 4, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
