Category Archives: Top Stories

Special counsel subpoenas election officials in 3 states in Trump probe
UPDATED 2:37 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The special counsel overseeing two federal investigations related to Donald Trump has issued grand jury subpoenas to local election officials in Arizona, Michig...
Will Stevenson Dec 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally to support Republican candidates ahead of midterm elections, in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. November 7, 2022. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse/File Photo

Biden to visit Taiwan's TSMC chip plant in Arizona, hail supply chain fixes
WASHINGTON/PHOENIX, Ariz. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will visit TSMC's Arizona plant on Tuesday as the Taiwanese chipmaker said it will more than triple its planned investment there to $40 bi...
Cooper Banks Dec 06, 2022

Grand jury charges teen with murder
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria teenager accused of committing the city's 23rd homicide of the year is now officially charged by a grand jury with the crime. Court records indicate the grand jury Tuesday char...
Will Stevenson Dec 06, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)

Illinois Secretary of State ready for retirement
CHICAGO, Ill. - Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White is ready to call it a career. At 88, and after changing his mind about retiring a term ago, White has been the longest-serving Secretary of Stat...
Will Stevenson Dec 06, 2022 (Illinois Secretary of State)

Canton man jailed on felony sex charges
CANTON, Ill. - Authorities in Fulton County say they put a man behind bars before he could attempt to have sexual contact with someone he thought was a minor. Canton Police say Zachary Taylor, 29, was...
Will Stevenson Dec 06, 2022 (File-25 News)

State elections board certifies 2022 results
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois State Board of Elections certified its election results Monday, putting the final stamp on another Democratic sweep of statewide offices. The b...
Will Stevenson Dec 06, 2022 Midwest Communications

Colorado suspect formally charged for LGBTQ club shooting that killed five
UPDATE: 12:14 p.m. DENVER (Reuters) - The suspect accused of killing five people inside a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub last month before patrons stopped the attack was formally charged on Tuesday ...
Julia Bradley Dec 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, the suspect in the mass shooting that killed five people and wounded 17 at an LGBTQ nightclub appears with state public defenders Joseph Archambault and Michael Bowman before a judge during his advisement hearing in a video link from jail, slumped to the side and in a wheelchair and showing facial injuries in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. November 23, 2022 in a court artist sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg

Senate candidates head into Georgia midterm election runoff
CUMMING, Ga. (Reuters) - With Republican influence in the U.S. Senate on the line, two dozen party faithful gathered in an Atlanta suburb on Sunday for the final stretch of a get-out-the-vote effort a...
Julia Bradley Dec 06, 2022 Reverend Raphael Warnock, Democratic Senator for Georgia, speaks during his final midterm runoff election campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., December 5, 2022. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

Kirstie Alley, 'Cheers' and 'Look Who's Talking' Star, dies aged 71
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Kirstie Alley, the two-time Emmy-winning actress who rose to fame in her role on the hit TV series "Cheers", died on Monday after a short battle with cancer. She was 71. Alley's...
Julia Bradley Dec 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Kirstie Alley arrives at the house as the reality show 'Celebrity Big Brother' starts, in Elstree, near London, Britain August 16, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

Peoria Council candidate drops out after petition challenge
PEORIA, Ill. -- The number of candidates running for five at-large Peoria City Council seats in next year's election has been reduced to 10 after one of the candidates announced he's taken himself out...
Julia Bradley Dec 06, 2022 (25 News)


