Category Archives: Top Stories
Spread of COVID-19 in Illinois slows down --state
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - There has been some significant slowing of the spread of COVID-19 in the last week throughout the State of Illinois, even though the number of new cases did not drop much. The Illi...
Sep 23, 2022 (Centers for Disease Control)
Debt collector faces at least five class action lawsuits: report
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - A Central Illinois-based collection agency and so-called "customer engagement agency" is subject to at least five class action lawsuits around the country essentially accusing the ...
Sep 23, 2022 (25 News)
Suspect wanted region-wide arrested after Peoria Police shooting investigation
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man wanted by law enforcement agencies in multiple jurisdictions across central Illinois is now in police custody following Peoria Police investigators' work in the wake of a shootin...
Sep 23, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Eureka College ready to "Run with Reagan"
EUREKA, Ill. -- Eureka College will be a buzz with runners Saturday morning...as they "Run with Reagan". The event coincides with Eureka College's 100th Homecoming this weekend. So, will someone be dr...
Sep 23, 2022 (Eureka College via Facebook)
U.S. House Republicans unveil agenda ahead of Nov. 8 elections
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives rolled out an agenda on Friday aimed at tackling a range of priorities from inflation and crime to election accountability, whic...
Sep 23, 2022 FILE PHOTO: General view of the U.S. Capitol as the House of Representatives takes up debate of U.S. President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan in Washington, U.S., March 8, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
Over 4 million Americans administered updated COVID boosters, says CDC
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday that 4.4 million people had received updated COVID-19 booster shots, a few weeks into the government's new vaccinat...
Sep 23, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A nurse fills up syringes with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines for residents who are over 50 years old and immunocompromised and are eligible to receive their second booster shots in Waterford, Michigan, U.S., April 8, 2022. REUTERS/Emily Elconin/File Photo
Repeat child porn offender sentenced to more time behind bars
PEORIA, Ill. -- A federal judge has sentenced a Peoria man to 15 years in prison for receiving child pornography while on supervised release for a similar crime. When David Robertson II, 39, is releas...
Sep 23, 2022 Midwest Communications
Russia starts annexation vote in occupied areas of Ukraine, draws condemnation
KYIV (Reuters) - Russia launched referendums on Friday aimed at annexing four occupied regions of Ukraine, raising the stakes in the seven-month-old war with what Kyiv called an illegal sham that saw ...
Sep 23, 2022 Head of the central electoral commission of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's republic Vladimir Vysotsky visits a polling station ahead of the planned referendum on the joining of the Donetsk people's republic to Russia, in Donetsk, Ukraine September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Hurricane Fiona threatens Bermuda while on course to batter Canada
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Reuters) - Hurricane Fiona threatened the Atlantic island of Bermuda on Friday, passing west of the British territory on its northward trek toward Nova Scotia while packing the pote...
Sep 23, 2022 Increasing wind pushes waves towards the south shore before the arrival of Hurricane Fiona in Bermuda September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Nicola Muirhead
Chiropractor charged in federal court with Medicare fraud
PEORIA, Ill. - It took investigators a year, but a chiropractor in Eureka -- but who had locations in places like Peoria over the years -- is facing federal charges accusing her of fraud. Documents fi...
Sep 22, 2022 (25 News)
