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Police investigate early morning armed robbery
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say they're looking for two juveniles who held up a man early Monday morning. Police say it happened around 3:15 a.m. A man told police two juveniles held him up near Sher...
Jun 26, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
DeSantis details hardline border plan, looking to compete with Trump
(Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday provided his most detailed plan yet for securing the U.S. southern border with Mexico as he tries to make up ground against Donald Trump in the race...
Jun 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis speaks at the North Carolina Republican Party convention in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. June 9, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake/File Photo
Local Russian expert says weekend revolt has damaged image of Putin within his country
PEORIA, Ill. - A local expert on Russian affairs says she has "cautious optimism" about the attempted mutiny by the Wagner Group from the past weekend. The group, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin on Saturday,...
Jun 26, 2023 flowcomm / CC
Air National Guard unit being decommissioned, impacting Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A portion of what makes up Peoria's contingent in the Air National Guard - the 182 Airlift Wing - is being decommissioned. The Illinois National Guard says as part of national level cha...
Jun 26, 2023 (U.S. Air National Guard/Staff Sgt. Paul Helmig)
First of two murder trials for parents of young boy delayed
PEORIA, Ill. - Delayed again. Fifteen months after being arrested, and not long after a judge agreed for the two people charged to be tried separately, the first of two trials regarding the death of N...
Jun 26, 2023 Brandon Walker and Stephanie Jones (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
US to spend $42 billion to make internet access universal by 2030
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday divvied up $42 billion among the nation's 50 states and U.S. territories to make access to high-speed broadband universal by 2030, as it launched a new...
Jun 26, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden announces a $42.45 billion national grant program for high-speed internet infrastructure deployment called the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 26, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Top US Republican threatens impeachment probe of attorney general over Hunter Biden
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives is threatening an impeachment investigation of Attorney General Merrick Garland over the Justice Department's criminal pr...
Jun 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stops to speak to reporters in front of an East Wing portrait of former first lady and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as he arrives to attend a State Dinner hosted by President Biden for India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 22, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson/File Photo
UPDATE: At least 3 dead, dozens of homes damaged after storms hit US Midwest, South
UPDATED 9:50 A.M. (Reuters) - Tornadoes and thunderstorms hit the U.S. Midwest and South on Sunday, leaving dozens of homes damaged and at least three people dead in Indiana and Arkansas, authorities ...
Jun 26, 2023 Debris is lifted into the air by a possible tornado during severe weather near Greenwood, Indiana, U.S., June 25, 2023 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Eric Ford via TMX/via REUTERS /File photo
Wagner mutiny shows Moscow's 'big strategic mistake' in attacking Kyiv - NATO
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The aborted mutiny by Russia's Wagner mercenary group at the weekend demonstrated the scale of the Kremlin's strategic mistake in waging war on Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Jen...
Jun 26, 2023 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File photo
US Coast Guard investigating cause of Titanic submersible implosion
(Reuters) -The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating the cause of the undersea implosion of a tourist submersible that killed all five people aboard while diving to the century-old wreck of the Titanic, o...
Jun 26, 2023 The Titan submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions to explore the wreckage of the sunken Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, dives in an undated photograph. OceanGate Expeditions/Handout via REUTERS
