Category Archives: Top Stories
Jury finds Alex Jones must pay $4.1 million for Sandy Hook hoax claims
(Reuters) - U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre at least $4.1 million for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury sa...
Aug 04, 2022 Alex Jones steps outside of the Travis County Courthouse, to do interviews with media after he was questioned under oath about text messages and emails by lawyer Mark Bankston, in Austin, Texas, U.S. August 3, 2022. Briana Sanchez/Pool via REUTERS
Peoria County officials: monitoring for monkeypox, but no cases
PEORIA, Ill. - There may be health emergencies both in Illinois and the United States over an outbreak of monkeypox, but local health officials aren't sounding an alarm for now. Peoria City/County Hea...
Aug 04, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man pleads guilty in 2021 homicide
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is going to prison for the city's 22nd homicide last year, but not on the original charges he faced. Peoria County Court records indicate Orlando Alexander, 43, pleaded gui...
Aug 04, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Pritzker touts Illinois back to school sales tax holiday, starting Aug. 5
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Governor J.B. Pritzker took part of Thursday to encourage Illinois families to take advantage of an opportunity to purchase school supplies and a much lower sales tax rate. "Our p...
Aug 04, 2022 Midwest Communications
U.S. govt declares monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency
UPDATED 2:38 P.M. (Reuters) -The United States has declared monkeypox a public health emergency, the health secretary said Thursday, a move expected to free up additional funding and tools to fight th...
Aug 04, 2022 A person arrives to receive a monkeypox vaccination at the Northwell Health Immediate Care Center at Fire Island-Cherry Grove, in New York, U.S., July 15, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Fire damages East Peoria restaurant
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Fire has closed an East Peoria eatery, just prior to lunch time Thursday. East Peoria firefighters were called to "The Original Wonderdog" in Fondulac Plaza around 11:00 a.m. for w...
Aug 04, 2022 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Four Kentucky police officers charged in Breonna Taylor killing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged four current and former Louisville, Kentucky, police officers for their roles in the botched 2020 raid that killed Breonna Taylor, a Black wo...
Aug 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: People attend a rally to mark one year since police officers shot and killed Breonna Taylor when they entered her home, in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., March 13, 2021. REUTERS/Amira Karaoud
PCAPS offers tips to keep your pets cool in the heat
PEORIA, Ill. -- When you're hot, they're hot. Becky Spencer, with Peoria Animal Protective Services, says it's that simple. On hot summer days, leave pets at home where they'll stay cool. She says in ...
Aug 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Major, one of the family dogs of U.S. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, explores the South Lawn after on his arrival from Delaware at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 24, 2021. Picture taken January 24, 2021. Adam Schultz/White House/Handout via REUTERS.
Russia sentences Griner to 9 years in jail, Biden calls for her release
UPDATED 12:26 P.M. KHIMKI, Russia (Reuters) -A Russian court sentenced U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on Thursday after finding her guilty of deliberately bringing cannab...
Aug 04, 2022 U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, walks after the final statements in a court hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
With eye on Russia, U.S. Senate backs Finland and Sweden joining NATO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate approved on Wednesday Finland and Sweden's accession to NATO, the most significant expansion of the 30-member alliance since the 1990s as it responds to Russia's ...
Aug 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. August 2, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
