Category Archives: Top Stories
Girl takes part in international BMX bike competition at 9 years old
PEORIA, Ill. - Drive and determination the likes of which she's never seen before. That's how Central Illinoisan Amanda Sullivan describes her daughter Malia Alvarez -- already a competitor in the wor...
Aug 08, 2022 (25 News)
U.S. to send $4.5 billion more to Ukraine for budget needs
(Reuters) -The United States will provide an additional $4.5 billion to Ukraine's government, bringing its total budgetary support since Russia's February invasion to $8.5 billion, the U.S. Agency for...
Aug 08, 2022 National flags of Ukraine and the U.S. fly at a compound of a police training base outside Kiev, Ukraine, May 6, 2016. Picture taken May 6, 2016. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Two white men get life sentences, third man 35 years for U.S. hate crime in Ahmaud Arbery murder
UPDATED 4:18 P.M. BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Reuters) -A judge sentenced a white father and son to life in prison and their neighbor to 35 years on Monday for a federal hate crime in the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Ar...
Aug 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A poster depicting Ahmaud Arbery is seen outside the Glynn County Courthouse while Greg McMichael, his son Travis McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan are tried over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, in Brunswick, Georgia, U.S., November 23, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello
Police investigate armed robbery of cab driver
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police officers were called late Sunday night to the 3200 block of N. University, where a number of businesses are located, regarding an armed robbery at another location. When ...
Aug 08, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Biden visits eastern Kentucky to review flood damage
LEXINGTON, Ky (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in eastern Kentucky on Monday to survey damage from severe flooding that swept away houses and vehicles, and killed at least 37 people last we...
Aug 08, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks as he and first lady Jill Biden visit a flood-ravaged building in Lost Creek, Kentucky, U.S., August 8, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
New Mexico police seek public's help in probe of four Muslim slayings
(Reuters) -Police in New Mexico on Sunday asked for the public's help in locating a "vehicle of interest" in their probe of four fatal shootings of Muslim men whose slayings in Albuquerque over the pa...
Aug 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Mayor of Albuquerque Tim Keller speaks to the public during an event to mark Indigenous Peoples' Day in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., October 11, 2021. REUTERS/Mostafa Bassim
Teachers' union to rally ahead of PPS board meeting
PEORIA, Ill. -- As negotiations continue with Peoria Public Schools, the local teachers' union is set to hold a PFT Bargaining Rally For Respect Monday night. This comes after negotiations stalled las...
Aug 08, 2022 (Peoria Federation of Teachers)
U.S. Senate approves bill to fight climate change, cut drug costs in win for Biden
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Sunday passed a sweeping $430 billion bill intended to fight climate change, lower drug prices and raise some corporate taxes, a major victory for President Jo...
Aug 08, 2022 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) walks into the Radio TV gallery to speak to the media after the 51-50 vote passed the "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022" on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S. August 7, 2022. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
Police investigate Sunday morning stabbing
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police aren't releasing many details, but say someone was stabbed in the pre-dawn hours Sunday. Police say at 4:28 A.M., officers were called to one of the city's hospitals after...
Aug 07, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Ukraine probing almost 26,000 suspected war crimes cases - prosecutor
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine is investigating almost 26,000 suspected war crime cases committed since Russia's Feb. 24 invasion and has charged 135 people, its chief war crimes prosecutor told Reuters. Of...
Aug 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Volunteers of the Territorial Defence Forces walk next to destroyed Russian tanks and armoured vehicles, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Bucha, in Kyiv region, Ukraine, April 6, 2022. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
