Category Archives: Top Stories
Lawmakers advance bills mandating salary transparency, community college credit parity
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - As the General Assembly prepares to wrap up its spring legislative session this week, Democratic lawmakers are advancing a bill that would mandate job posti...
May 16, 2023 Sen. Cristina Pacione-Zayas is pictured on the floor of the Illinois Senate. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Producers announce 'hiatus' ahead of this year's Summer Camp
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. -- This year's Summer Camp music festival will apparently be the last, at least in the way it's been done so far. The producers of the annual event at Chillicothe's Three Sisters Par...
May 16, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD -Rick Hirschmann)
Republican allies form Super PAC to back Pence presidential bid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Allies of Mike Pence launched a Super PAC on Tuesday to garner support for the former vice president as he moves toward an expected run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomi...
May 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence addresses the National Review Institute's 2023 Ideas Summit in Washington, U.S., March 31, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
State lawmakers trying to wrap up spring session in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois legislators will be busy over the next few days, passing bills and putting together a new state budget during the last scheduled week of the spring session. The most daun...
May 16, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Biden, McCarthy debt ceiling meeting starts as Australia trip in limbo
UPDATED 2:20 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy held a new round of talks about the U.S. debt ceiling on Tuesday, and sources sai...
May 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden hosts debt limit talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and other Congressional leaders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 9, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Kyiv says it shoots down volley of Russian hypersonic missiles
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Tuesday it had shot down six Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles in a single night, thwarting a superweapon Moscow had previously touted as all but unstoppable. It was ...
May 16, 2023 Firefighters work at a site of a vehicle parking area damaged by remains of Russian missiles, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 16, 2023. Pavlo Petrov/Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kyiv/Handout via REUTERS
Minor injuries after midday crash in East Peoria
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Police in East Peoria say they have turned over to the Tazewell County Sheriffs Department the investigation into a crash on the edge of the city's downtown area. East Peoria Polic...
May 15, 2023 (Illinois Department of Transportation Traffic Camera)
Tuition, other fees increasing at Illinois State University
NORMAL, Ill. - Tuitiion and other fees are going up at Illinois State University. ISU's Board of Trustees Friday approved a 2.7% overall cost increase compared to the previous academic year. New under...
May 15, 2023 (25 News)
US special counsel faults FBI's handling of 2016 Trump-Russia probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI lacked "actual evidence" to investigate Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and relied too heavily on tips provided by Trump's political opponents to fuel the probe...
May 15, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at his final campaign event at the Devos Place in Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. November 8, 2016. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
UPDATE: At least four killed, including suspect, in New Mexico shooting
UPDATED 2:35 A.M. (5/16) (Reuters) -An 18-year-old gunman stalked through a New Mexico neighborhood on Monday firing randomly at bystanders, houses and cars, killing three people and wounding six befo...
May 15, 2023 Midwest Communications
