Category Archives: Top Stories
Germantown Hills athletic complex still in flux following Election Day
GERMANTOWN HILLS, Ill. - Officials in the Germantown Hills School District say the election is technically not over for them. At issue: while voters overwhelmingly rejected a property tax increase for...
Nov 11, 2022 (Germantown Hills School District via 25 News)
U.S. stops taking student debt forgiveness applications after ruling
(Reuters) -The United States government has stopped taking applications for student debt relief, after a federal judge blocked President Joe Biden's loan forgiveness plan, according to a notice on a g...
Nov 11, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A graduating student waits for the start of the Commencement ceremony at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 27, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
COP27: Biden says the climate crisis is about "very life of the planet"
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden addressed the COP27 climate conference in Egypt on Friday, saying the global climate crisis posed an existential threat to the planet and pr...
Nov 11, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech at COP27 climate summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 11, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Family members: Homicide victim couldn't be intended target
PEORIA, Ill. - Friends and family of Peoria's 23rd homicide victim say they believe the shots fired that claimed his life, weren't intended for him. Merian Smith, 15, was declared brain dead Wednesday...
Nov 11, 2022 (25 News)
22VA: Helping veterans heal through art
PEORIA, Ill. -- At least 22 veterans commit suicide every day. That's a stinging statistic. But, it was also the inspiration for a group of talented artists called 22VA --that offers help to local vet...
Nov 11, 2022 (Courtesy 22VA Facebook page)
Report finds 'code of silence' at mental health facility where staff abused and neglected patients
This article was produced for ProPublica's Local Reporting Network in partnership with Lee Enterprises, along with Capitol News Illinois. ANNA, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Several employees at Choa...
Nov 11, 2022 A sign is pictured at Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in Anna. (Whitney Curtis for ProPublica)
Ukrainian troops met with joy in Kherson as Russia abandons its biggest prize
BLAHODATNE, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian troops were greeted by joyous residents in the center of Kherson on Friday after Russia abandoned the only regional capital it had captured since its invasion...
Nov 11, 2022 A person waits for a bus at a bus stop with a board displaying an image of Russian service member Sergey Reshtnikov with a slogan reading "Glory to the Heroes of Russia" in Moscow, Russia November 10, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
Noose found at Obama Presidential Center construction site in Chicago
(Reuters) - Chicago police are investigating a noose that was found at the construction site of the Obama Presidential Center on Thursday, an act the Illinois governor condemned as a symbol of racist ...
Nov 11, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A crewmen walks offsite after the groundbreaking ceremony for the Obama presidential center in Jackson Park, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. September 28, 2021. REUTERS/Sebastian Hidalgo
Peoria honoring vets with annual Veterans Day Parade
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria's annual Veterans Day Parade will step off downtown at 10 a.m. Friday. Peoria Police say the route begins on Monroe, proceeding north to Main, then Adams...ending at the WW II M...
Nov 11, 2022 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD--Will Stevenson)
U.S. judge declares Biden's student debt relief plan unlawful
(Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a vict...
Nov 10, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden answers a question during a news conference held after the 2022 U.S. midterm elections in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 9, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
