Category Archives: Top Stories
Fraudsters likely stole $45.6 billion from U.S. unemployment insurance program in COVID
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fraudsters likely stole $45.6 billion from the United States' unemployment insurance program during the COVID-19 pandemic by applying tactics like using Social Security numbers ...
Sep 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO - An empty hospital bed sits inside the former Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, California, U.S., April 12, 2022. Picture taken April 12, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
With U.S. midterm elections approaching, Democrats score bipartisan win on public safety bills
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a series of bipartisan policing and public safety bills, as Democrats worked to burnish their crime-fighting credentials bef...
Sep 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol Building is lit at sunset in Washington, U.S., December 20, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
IL Supreme Court rules against former lawmakers who wanted retroactive back pay
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - They were apparently against it, before they were for it, and the Illinois Supreme Court took notice. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled against former Democrat State Senators James ...
Sep 22, 2022 Midwest Communications
US House could take up stop-gap spending bill on Tuesday, Pelosi says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives can consider the stop-gap government spending bill next week as soon as it passes the Senate, hopefully as soon as Tuesday night, House Speaker...
Sep 22, 2022 U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Man sent to federal prison for gun crime
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man could have been given a lot more time in prison than he was on a felony gun crime. The U.S. Attorney's Office says a federal judge Wednesday sentenced Arnez Salazar, 26, to...
Sep 22, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Unemployment drops in August in most of Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - "A strong labor market throughout the state." That's what Illinois Deputy Governor Andy Manar says after the latest state unemployment data that came out out Thursday. The statewid...
Sep 22, 2022 Got Credit / CC
Three hospitalized after three-vehicle Peoria accident
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say three people were taken to the hospital after a three-vehicle crash not far from Northwoods Mall Thursday morning. Peoria Police say the crash happened around 8:30 a.m...
Sep 22, 2022 Midwest Communications
Peoria Fine Art Fair returns this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria's Fine Art Fair will showcase a wide range of artists on the riverfront this weekend. "We have hundreds of applications that come in, in January...then we put them through a jur...
Sep 22, 2022 (Peoria Art Guild)
U.S. vets among those freed in Russian/Ukrainian prisoner swap
KYIV/RIYADH (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed as "superheroes" the senior Ukrainian commanders, including those who led the dogged defense of Mariupol, who were freed by Russia as part ...
Sep 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses Ukrainians about the prisoners of war (POWs) swap, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv Ukraine, in this handout picture released September 22, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
Pritzker calls for pair of legislators to resign
UPDATED 11:46 a.m. CHICAGO, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is calling for the resignation of two Democratic state legislators in response to misconduct allegations against them. Pritzker's full sta...
Sep 22, 2022 (File-State of Illinois)
