Category Archives: Top Stories
Aerosmith cancels summer Vegas shows after singer Tyler enters rehab
(Reuters) - Rock band Aerosmith canceled the first two months of shows scheduled for its Las Vegas residency after lead singer Steven Tyler suffered a relapse in his sobriety and entered treatment, th...
May 24, 2022 FILE PHOTO: 62nd Grammy Awards - Show - Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 26, 2020 - Steven Tyler of Aerosmith performs. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
Ford to pay U.S. states $19.2 million over false advertising claims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ford Motor Co will pay $19.2 million to resolve allegations it falsely advertised real-world fuel economy and payload capacity for some hybrids and pickup trucks, the Iowa Attorn...
May 24, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Ford logo is pictured at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
Victim identified in fatal Pekin motorcycle accident
PEKIN, Ill. - Authorities are providing more information about a weekend accident near Pekin that claimed the life of a motorcyclist. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Dennis Hilst, 67, of Mani...
May 24, 2022 Midwest Communications
Fire temporarily closes Pekin KFC
PEKIN, Ill. - A fast food restaurant in Pekin is temporarily closed after a weekend fire. 25 News reports the fire broke out Saturday at a KFC on Court Street, as employees were preparing to open for ...
May 24, 2022 Midwest Communications
Feds order Petersen Health Care to pay $3m in back overtime pay
PEORIA, Ill. - The feds say a Peoria-based health care company must pay almost $3 million in back pay to more than 3,000 employees in four states that are owed in overtime. The Department of Labor say...
May 24, 2022 (Petersen Health Care)
Pekin City Council approves resolution to federal lawsuit over sidewalks
PEKIN, Ill. - A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit filed against the City of Pekin over allegedly not making city sidewalks handicapped-accessible under the Americans with Disabilit...
May 24, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Biden says no change on 'strategic ambiguity' as Taiwan overshadows Quad talks
TOKYO (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Tuesday there was no change to a U.S. policy of "strategic ambiguity" on Taiwan, a day after he angered China by saying he would be willing to use force t...
May 24, 2022 Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden, Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, pose for photos at the entrance hall of the Prime Minister’s Office of Japan in Tokyo, Japan, May 24, 2022. Zhang Xiaoyu/Pool via REUTERS
One shot, wounded in overnight drive-by shooting in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- One person is injured in the wake of a reported drive-by shooting in Peoria last night. Police say the Shotspotter alert went out around 11 p.m. in an area of North Peoria Avenue and E...
May 24, 2022 Midwest Communications
Backing Trump foe, Pence asks Republicans to focus on the future
KENNESAW, Ga. (Reuters) - Former Vice President Mike Pence campaigned for one of his ex-boss' nemeses on Monday night in the Republican primary for governor of Georgia, urging voters not to dwell on t...
May 24, 2022 Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence attends a rally for Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, ahead of the state's Republican primary, in Kennesaw, Georgia, U.S. May 23, 2022. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer
WHO says monkeypox outbreak 'containable', confirms 131 cases outside Africa
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday there have been 131 confirmed monkeypox cases and 106 further suspected cases since the first was reported on May 7 outside the c...
May 24, 2022 Test tubes labelled "Monkeypox virus positive" are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
