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Biden tells Arab leaders that U.S. is committed to region
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) -President Joe Biden told an Arab Summit on Saturday that the United States would remain firmly committed to its allies in the Middle East and was "not going anywhere" a...
Jul 16, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 16, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Peoria payment portal being upgraded this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- The city of Peoria's online payment portal for Stormwater Utility bills will undergo a system update on Saturday, July 16. Following the update, those who currently pay their bills onl...
Jul 16, 2022 1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Medical examiner says Ivana Trump's death was accidental
(Reuters) - Ivana Trump, former U.S. President Donald Trump's first wife who passed away on Thursday, died as a result of an accident after suffering blunt force trauma injuries to her torso, the New ...
Jul 16, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Ivana Trump smiles at her belated birthday party at the Pangaea Soleil club during the 59th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 24, 2006. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo
Biden says he will act on climate after talks collapse in Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Friday he would act on his own to cut climate emissions and urged his fellow Democrats to pass the few elements of their sweeping domestic policy pac...
Jul 16, 2022 FILE PHOTO: People protest against U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) as they blockade the Grant Town Coal Waste Power Plant in Grant Town, West Virginia, U.S., April 9, 2022. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith/File Photo
Watkins now officially Peoria County Sheriff
PEORIA, Ill. - The appointment of Chris Watkins as Peoria County's sheriff is now official. The Peoria County Board Thursday night approved the appointment of Watkins as Sheriff, taking the word "inte...
Jul 15, 2022 (Peoria County Government)
Coroner: Homicide-Suicide ruled in Thursday deaths
PEORIA, Ill. - One is a homicide. The other is a suicide. That is the ruling from Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood on the two bodies found in the basement of a Central Peoria home Thursday, followi...
Jul 15, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
State: 'Slow but steady' increase in COVID-19 cases
CHICAGO, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Public Health is warning of what they call a "slow but steady increase" in COVID-19 cases. The state says a little more than 33,000 cases were added in the l...
Jul 15, 2022 (Centers for Disease Control)
Waffle House shooter ordered to serve life sentences consecutively
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - It's, in reality, only one life sentence, but a judge says four life sentences for the central Illinois man who opened fire in a Tennessee Waffle House four years ago must be served...
Jul 15, 2022 (WSMV-TV via 25 News)
U.S. House passes bill to protect right to travel for abortion
(Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed legislation to safeguard the right to travel across state lines to seek an abortion after several states banned the procedure in the wake ...
Jul 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Women's March activists hold signs outside the White House in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade abortion decision in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 9, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Man pleads guilty to 2018 Dixon High School shooting
DIXON, Ill. - A former Dixon High School student who opened fire at a graduation practice four years ago has pleaded guilty. Matthew Milby, 23, pleaded guilty Thursday in Lee County to a pair of count...
Jul 15, 2022 (2018 File-Lee County Jail)
