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Peorian among five arrested for Urbana vehicle theft
CHENOA, Ill. - Identities haven't been released, but police in McLean County say a resident from Peoria was involved in am armed robbery Wednesday night at an Urbana car dealership. Chenoa Police Chie...
Jun 08, 2023 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
Suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance arrives in US from Peru
(Reuters) -A convicted killer long suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway arrived on Thursday in the U.S., where he faces extortion and fraud charges. Images broadcas...
Jun 08, 2023 Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot, who was serving a 28-year sentence in Peru after confessing to killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman, is escorted to the airport to be extradited to the U.S., to face charges of extortion and wire fraud against the family of Natalee Holloway, in a case linked to his alleged involvement in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, in Lima, Peru June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda
UPDATE: Rural Tazewell County farm damaged by fire
UPDATED 7:15 P.M. RURAL WASHINGTON, Ill. - Fire has caused some pretty extensive damage to a rural Tazewell County farm. Washington Fire Battalion Chief Tyler Gee says the fire at Northtown Farms on C...
Jun 08, 2023 (Greg Martha via Twitter/@25NewsWEEK)
New law limits venue for constitutional lawsuits to Sangamon, Cook counties
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - People who file lawsuits in state courts challenging the constitutionality of a state law, administrative rule or executive order will now have to file thos...
Jun 08, 2023 Brian Turner / CC
Sunak, Biden sign new US-UK agreement on clean energy, AI
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday agreed to deepen close economic ties between the United States and Britain, pledging to accelerate the...
Jun 08, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Man found guilty of 2022 New Year's shooting death
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County jury has found Robert White guilty in the 2022 New Year's shooting death of 33-year-old Daniela Jackson. The verdict came Thursday after closing arguments were made the ...
Jun 08, 2023 Robert White (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail 2022)
US weekly jobless claims race to 1-1/2-year high, economists urge caution
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits surged to the highest level in more than 1-1/2 years last week, but layoffs are probably not accelerating as ...
Jun 08, 2023 Hundreds of people line up outside the Kentucky Career Center, over two hours prior to its opening, to find assistance with their unemployment claims, in Frankfort, Kentucky, U.S. June 18, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
Arrest made in connection with shooting at Peoria County deputies in March
PEORIA, Ill. - A man accused of shooting at Peoria County's Sheriff's Deputies in March has been arrested. Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins says an investigation by sheriff's deputies, Peoria Polic...
Jun 08, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Washington quiets as Canadian smoke blankets U.S. capital
UPDATED 5:25 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The shroud of polluted air emanating from Canadian wildfires pushed further down the Atlantic Seaboard on Thursday, blanketing Washington, D.C., in an unhealthy...
Jun 08, 2023 The One World Trade Center tower in lower Manhattan in New York City is pictured shortly after sunrise as haze and smoke caused by wildfires in Canada hang over the Manhattan skyline in as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S., June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar
UPDATE: Pat Robertson, televangelist who mobilized Christian voters, dead at 93
UPDATED 9:48 A.M. (Reuters) - Pat Robertson, the televangelist who helped turn Christian conservatives into a potent force in U.S. politics, died at age 93 at his Virginia home, the Christian Broadcas...
Jun 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Evangelical Christian leader Pat Robertson takes his seat onstage ahead of a campaign rally with Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in Virginia Beach, Virginia September 8, 2012. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
