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2025 Illinois banned personalized license plate combinations released
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias says some people got a little too creative this year with custom license plates. In a video posted on Monday, Secretary of State Alexi...
Dec 22, 2025 (Illinois Secretary of State via Facebook)
Pope Leo's new US bishops are critics of Trump's migrant crackdown
VATICAN CITY, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Most of Pope Leo's appointments for Catholic bishops in the U.S. have called for better treatment of immigrants in the country, in a trend that may shape how the natio...
Dec 22, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Pope Leo XIV holds an audience for the Jubilee in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, December 20, 2025. REUTERS/Vincenzo Livieri/File Photo
State grants allow small Illinois farmers to develop local food-sharing networks
Article Summary Past recipients of Illinois' Local Food Infrastructure Grant say the investment has had ripple effects, allowing them to share knowledge and equipment with other local food producers. ...
Dec 22, 2025 Sola Gratia farm manager John Williams pulls leaves from a cabbage while standing in the farm’s last rows of outdoor leafy greens for the season. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Maggie Dougherty)
With no winner Saturday night, Monday's Powerball jackpot hits $1.6 billion
URBANDALE, Ia. - The Powerball jackpot is still growing after no one won the top prize Saturday night. The winning numbers were: 4,5, 28, 52, 69...with a Powerball of 20. Monday night's jackpot sits a...
Dec 22, 2025 (Powerball)
Car bomb kills Russian general in Moscow, investigators say
MOSCOW, Dec 22 (Reuters) - A Russian general was killed by a car bomb in southern Moscow on Monday, Russian investigators said, adding that they suspected Ukrainian special services could have been be...
Dec 22, 2025 The damaged Kia Sorento lies at the scene where Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Russian General Staff's army operational training directorate, was killed in a car bomb in Moscow, Russia, December 22, 2025. REUTERS/Anastasia Barashkova
Justice Department restores Trump photo to public database of Epstein files
NEW YORK, Dec 21 (Reuters) - A photo of U.S. President Donald Trump that had been removed from the cache of Jeffrey Epstein files released by the Department of Justice was restored on Sunday after off...
Dec 22, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he makes an announcement about lowering the cost of drug prices, at the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 19, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
PFD: Arson to blame for fire Sunday night in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Arson appears to be to blame for a fire late Sunday night in Peoria. Fire Battalion Chief Mike Ralston said crews were called to a home on W. Columbia Terrace, between N. Bourland and M...
Dec 22, 2025 Midwest Communications
Finalists for PPS superintendent job will participate in town hall meetings
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Public Schools' Board of Education has chosen two finalists for the superintendent's job. Those finalists will meet with the public at two town hall meetings in January. PPS says...
Dec 22, 2025 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
GasBuddy: Peoria gas prices still dropping ahead of the Christmas holiday
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in Peoria have dropped 7.7 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $2.85 on Monday, according to GasBuddy. Peoria's prices are 30.7 cents lower than last month and 29.2 ce...
Dec 22, 2025 Orin Zebest / CC
Trump set to expand immigration crackdown in 2026 despite brewing backlash
WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing for a more aggressive immigration crackdown in 2026 with billions in new funding, including by raiding more workplaces - even as...
Dec 22, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. federal agents smash a car window while trying to detain a man during an immigration raid, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered increased federal law enforcement presence to assist in crime prevention, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., December 17, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska/File Photo
