Category Archives: Top Stories
Radical Illinois militia group leader sentenced to 14 years on terror charges
PEORIA, Ill. -- A group of radical militia members based in Illinois will now serve decades in federal prison for a years-long campaign of violent crimes and attempted sabotage across three states. Th...
Jul 13, 2022 Midwest Communications
COVID or politics? Biden to avoid handshakes in Israel, Saudi Arabia
TEL AVIV (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will seek to reduce direct contact, such as shaking hands, during his visits to Israel and Saudi Arabia this week as part of enhanced COVID-19 precautions,...
Jul 13, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers an update on the administration's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response and the state of vaccinations during an event in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 29, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Gasoline, food drive U.S. consumer prices higher in June
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices accelerated in June as gasoline and food costs remained elevated, resulting in the largest annual increase in inflation in 40-1/2 years and cementing the ca...
Jul 13, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Gas prices are displayed at a Sunoco gas station after the inflation rate hit a 40-year high in January, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. February 19, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier
Peoria restaurant owner indicted
PEORIA, Ill. -- The owner of Thanh Linh, one of Peoria's most popular Asian restaurants, has been indicted for tax fraud. Peoria County court documents show Linh Luong was indicted on six counts, incl...
Jul 13, 2022 (25 News)
Texas newspaper posts video of police responding to Uvalde shooting
(Reuters) -A Texas newspaper on Tuesday posted video of police and federal agents responding to the shooting at an Uvalde elementary school in May, footage at the center of a debate among state and lo...
Jul 13, 2022 Salvador Ramos enters Robb Elementary school holding a rifle before killing 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. May 24, 2022 in a still image from school surveillance video obtained by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. Austin American-Statesman/Handout via REUTERS.
NASA draws back curtain on Webb space telescope's first full-color images
GREENBELT, Md. (Reuters) - NASA on Tuesday drew back the curtain on billions of years of cosmic evolution with the inaugural batch of photos from the largest, most powerful observatory ever launched t...
Jul 12, 2022 The "Cosmic Cliffs" of the Carina Nebula is seen in an image divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion, with data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe and released July 12, 2022. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team/Handout via REUTERS
Gutter workers injured in rural LaSalle County
STREATOR, Ill. - Five people received an electrical shock in LaSalle County while they installed a gutter on a house. The LaSalle County Sheriff's Department says it happened in rural Streator. The em...
Jul 12, 2022 Brendan Riley / CC
Grand jury indicts Peoria man for city's 10th homicide
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has officially indicted a man for the Peoria's 10th homicide of the year. Peoria County Circuit Court records indicate the grand jury has formally charged Rev...
Jul 12, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Animal at Peoria Zoo dies
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Park District says one of the animals at the Peoria Zoo has died. Zoo officials say "Brody" -- a male mandrill -- had only been at the zoo "a relatively short period of time"...
Jul 12, 2022 (Peoria Park District)
Bailey, in Peoria, says he can win Chicago
PEORIA, Ill. - State Senator and Republican Gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey says he thinks he can get votes in Chicago in the November election. Bailey, speaking to several dozen supporters at t...
Jul 12, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
