Category Archives: Top Stories
Grunt, hoo, pant, scream: Chimps use complex vocal communication
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists exploring the evolutionary origin of language have detected a vocal communication system among wild chimpanzees more complex and structured than previously known, wit...
May 20, 2022 A wild female chimpanzee produces vocalization in the Tai National Park in Ivory Coast in this undated handout image. Liran Samuni/Tai Chimpanzee Project/Handout via REUTERS
Bear market beckons as U.S. stock slide deepens
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The stock market's brutal year neared a grim milestone as the S&P 500's slide on Friday threatened to leave it in a bear market for the first time since March 2020, fueled by ...
May 20, 2022 Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S. May 4, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Victim identified in fatal Thursday accident
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Coroner is releasing the name of the victim in Thursday morning's deadly car accident near downtown Peoria. Coroner Jamie Harwood says preliminary autopsy results on J...
May 20, 2022 Midwest Communications
IDPH: Peoria, Tazewell Counties at 'high community spread' for COVID-19
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Peoria and Tazewell Counties are now among eight in Illinois which are now listed as in the "high community spread" category of COVID-19. That's as the Illinois Department of Publi...
May 20, 2022 Illinois Department of Public Health via 25 News
Attorney General charges woman with lying on FOID card application
PEORIA, Ill. - The Illinois Attorney General's Office has indicted a Peoria-area woman after allegedly lying on an application for a Firearm Owners I.D. card. The A.G.'s office says Ronda Frye, 51, of...
May 20, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Chiefs vs. River Bandits in a battle for blood
PEORIA, Ill. - Starting now and running for the next few months, it will be "Blood Donation Night" at the old ballpark. ImpactLife has put together a competition called "Out for Blood" between the Peo...
May 20, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Shooting in Chicago's downtown leaves at least two dead, ten injured
(Reuters) - Chicago police arrested a suspect in a fatal shooting that escalated from a fight outside a fast food restaurant and spilled on to a nearby train line, authorities and local media said on ...
May 20, 2022 Police stand at a shooting scene after gunfire erupted on Thursday night outside a McDonald's near the city's Magnificent Mile shopping section, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. May 20, 2022 in this picture obtained from social media. Twitter/@DamianChlanda/via REUTERS
Biden Secret Service agents sent home after drunk assault report in S.Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) -Two U.S. Secret Service agents who were working on Joe Biden's trip to Asia are being sent home after one was accused of drunkenly assaulting a South Korean the day before the preside...
May 20, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden disembarks Air Force One as he arrives at the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea May 20, 2022. Lee Jin-man/Pool via REUTERS
Crews making progress towards demolition at BioUrja plant
UPDATED 5:23 p.m. Peoria Interim Fire Chief Shawn Sollberger now says demolition is slated to begin Sunday, with the combination of foam and nitrogen being entered into the smoldering grain bins worki...
May 20, 2022 Peoria Fire Department via Facebook
Biden arrives in S.Korea with first stop at Samsung
OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea (Reuters) -President Joe Biden arrived in South Korea on Friday, the first stop on his first trip to Asia as president, where his attempts to counter China's influence and b...
May 20, 2022 South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, with Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, greets U.S. President Joe Biden during a visit to a semiconductor factory at the Samsung Electronics Pyeongtaek Campus in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, May 20, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
