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UPDATE: South Korea leader stresses need for cooperation with Japan on North Korea
UPDATED 12:27 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol told U.S. lawmakers on Thursday it is necessary to speed up trilateral cooperation with Japan and the United States to cou...
Apr 27, 2023 South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol talks with members of the U.S. Congress after concluding his address to a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. April 27, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
UPDATE: Woman sentenced to prison for 2022 fatal DUI
UPDATED 1:50 P.M. PEKIN, Ill. - The former Bradley University student responsible for the deaths of two pedestrians because she struck them while driving drunk learned her fate today. Stephanie Melgoz...
Apr 27, 2023 Stephanie Melgoza of Farmington was sentenced to 14 years in prison Thursday, April 27, 2023 for the DUI-related deaths of Andrea Rosewicz, 43, and Paul Prowant, 55, on April 10, 2022 on North Main Street in East Peoria. At right is her attorney Kevin Sullivan. (MATT DAYHOFF/POOL)
UPDATE: Jerry Springer, raucous talk show host, dead at 79
UPDATED 11:57 A.M. (Reuters) -Television personality Jerry Springer, known for a long-running talk show that featured raucous audiences, controversial topics and fist-fighting guests and who briefly s...
Apr 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Television personality Jerry Springer at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 25, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo
U.S. military leak suspect to appear in court; had arsenal, prosecutors say
BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Air National Guardsman accused of leaking military secrets and keeping an arsenal of weapons in his bedroom will appear in federal court on Thursday, where federal prosecutor...
Apr 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Jack Douglas Teixeira, a U.S. Air Force National Guard airman accused of leaking highly classified military intelligence records online, appears wearing an orange jumpsuit, where the judge accepted his request to waive his right to a preliminary hearing in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. April 19, 2023 in a courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Margaret Small.
Tipsword: School resource officers shouldn't have to wear body cams
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A Republican lawmaker who's also the chief deputy of the Woodford County Sheriff's Office does not believe school resource officers should have to wear body cams, and he thinks al...
Apr 27, 2023 (25 News)
DeSantis, on foreign tour, hails Israel as 'valued and trusted' U.S. ally
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Potential U.S. presidential candidate Ron DeSantis on Thursday hailed Israel as "one of the most valued and trusted" allies of his country as he visited Jerusalem during a foreig...
Apr 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at the 2023 NHGOP Amos Tuck Dinner in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., April 14, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Caterpillar's Q1 profit rises on resilient demand, higher prices
(Reuters) -Heavy machinery maker Caterpillar Inc topped Wall Street earnings estimates after reporting a 31% rise in profit on Thursday as a boost in U.S. infrastructure spending kept its order books ...
Apr 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Caterpillar Inc. equipment is on display for sale at a retail site in San Diego, California, U.S., March 3, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Peoria crews respond to apartment fire Wednesday night
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called just before 10 p.m. Wednesday to Lexington Hills Apartments on W. Oakcrest Drive. Battalion Chief Scott Strum said crews found smoke and a small fire in...
Apr 27, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US House passes Republican debt ceiling bill with steep spending cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill to raise the nation's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, defying President Joe Biden by attaching sweeping spendin...
Apr 26, 2023 House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) walks following a closed door meeting on Captiol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Fire destroys Pekin garage and RV, damages another home and garage
PEKIN, Ill. - A garage at one Pekin home, and a house and garage at another home, were damaged from an afternoon fire Wednesday. Pekin Fire Chief Trent Reeise says the blaze on Sapp Street started aro...
Apr 26, 2023 (25 News)
