Category Archives: Top Stories
Pekin's busy Front Street reopens after extensive makeover
PEKIN, Ill. -- Pekin's Front Street has reopened following $6.2 million in upgrades near the city's industrial park. Pekin officials celebrated the event with a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday at Fron...
Jun 01, 2022
Biden, baby formula companies to meet on efforts to ease shortage
(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with major infant formula manufacturers on Wednesday as his administration presses ahead with efforts to boost imported supplies to help ease a nationwide...
Jun 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the 154th National Memorial Day Wreath-Laying and Observance ceremony to honor America's fallen, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, U.S., May 30, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Yellen says she was 'wrong' about inflation path; Biden backs Fed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that she was wrong in the past about the path inflation would take, but said taming price hikes is President Joe Biden's top ...
Jun 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies during a U.S. House Committee on Financial Services hearing on the Annual Report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S. May 12, 2022. Saul Loeb/Pool via REUTERS
Biden administration to announce $2.1 billion to strengthen food system
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration will announce on Wednesday more than $2.1 billion in funding to shore up weaknesses in the country's food supply system exposed during the COVID-19 pand...
Jun 01, 2022 U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack speaks during a video conference with farmers, ranchers and meat processors held by U.S. President Joe Biden from an auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, U.S. January 3, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Three injured, one flown to hospital following Tuesday I-74 crash
PEORIA, Ill. -- Three people are injured following a crash that backed traffic up along Interstate 74 west of Peoria. It happened Tuesday afternoon in the eastbound lanes of I-74 approaching Exit 82. ...
May 31, 2022 Midwest Communications
Biden says he will meet with Congress about guns after Texas shooting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he planned to meet with lawmakers in Congress about guns after the Texas elementary school shooting last week in which 19 children and tw...
May 31, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden pay their respects at the Robb Elementary School memorial, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in the deadliest U.S. school shooting in nearly a decade, in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. May 29, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
UPDATE: Autopsy inconclusive after Sunday Summer Camp death uncovered
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. -- Authorities are updating information in the case of a person founde dead at the Summer Camp Music Festival over the weekend. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says an autopsy to...
May 31, 2022 Highway Patrol Images / CC
Biden emphasized Fed independence in meeting with Powell - aide
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell met on Tuesday to discuss historic inflation that is draining Americans' pocketbooks. The meeting, the first since Powell's...
May 31, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the March jobs report, during a speech in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 1, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
UPDATE: No injuries reported after Grand Bear Resort blaze
PEORIA, Ill. -- 61 fire departments and a million gallons of water. That's what it took to contain a fire which broke out and devastated half-a-dozen structures at the Grand Bear Resort at Starved Roc...
May 31, 2022 Courtesy Josh Robson & 25 News
Local athlete dies in ATV accident over the weekend
FULTON COUNTY, Ill. -- An all-terrain vehicle crash in Fulton County Sunday night has killed a teenage athlete from Canton. 19-year-old Lukas Goforth played baseball and football at Canton High School...
May 31, 2022 Midwest Communications
