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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
Chicago police shoot unarmed 13-year-old boy, suspect in carjacking
(Reuters) - The civilian oversight agency of the Chicago police is investigating an officer's shooting of an unarmed 13-year-old boy who was suspected of having taken part in a carjacking. The boy is ...
May 20, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
U.S. CDC backs COVID boosters for children 5 to 11
(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday recommended the COVID-19 vaccine booster for children ages 5 to 11 after an advisory panel voted to back them, at least...
May 20, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Jace Quinones, 7, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, U.S., December 5, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah Beier
'Hell' in Ukraine's Donbas as Russia piles on pressure, warns Zelenskiy
KYIV/SLATYNE, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine's industrial Donbas region, the focus of recent Russian offensives, has been destroyed, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said as some of the world's richest coun...
May 19, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A view shows a plant of Azovstal Iron and Steel Works during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine May 15, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Mobile homes, RV's destroyed by East Peoria fire
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Several RV's and mobile homes in East Peoria were damaged as the result of a fire that quickly spread. East Peoria Fire Chief Bobby Zimmerman tells 25 News someone doing mechanical...
May 19, 2022 (25 News)
Census Bureau: Illinois population actually increased in 2020
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Census Bureau says all those people who think people are leaving the State of Illinois in droves, might be wrong. The Census Bureau Thursday released what they call "overcount"...
May 19, 2022 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey from U.S. Census Bureau
Health Department on baby formula shortage: Don't panic, don't stockpile
PEORIA, Ill. - Local officials have a message to parents in the wake of the continued shortage of baby formula in the country: don't panic, and don't do anything rash. OSF Healthcare Pediatrician Doct...
May 19, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Tazewell County now first in state to make military discharge records available online
PEORIA, Ill. - A change in state law lobbied for by a local official has led to Tazewell County being first in the state to use a new way to make some military records more readily available and easie...
May 19, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
