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Biden approves $350 million in military aid for Ukraine
UPDATE: Feb., 26, 2022 -- 1:13 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden instructed the U.S. State Department to release up to an additional $350 million worth of weapons from U.S. stocks to Ukra...
Feb 26, 2022 A Ukrainian serviceman holds a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher at fighting positions outside the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Maksim Levin
U.S. to impose sanctions on Russia's Putin over invasion of Ukraine
(Reuters) - The White House on Friday said the United States would impose sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as Washington looks to ramp up pressure on Mo...
Feb 25, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives for a meeting with representatives of the business community at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia February 24, 2022. Sputnik/Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS
Injured East Peoria officer back home after rehab stint
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - An East Peoria police officer injured while at the scene of an accident on Interstate 74 in late-December is back home. 25 News reports East Peoria officers were there to greet Off...
Feb 25, 2022 Illinois State Police
Illinois Senate passes "Jelani Day Bill"
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Senate has passed a bill that might put some pressure on county coroners when it comes to missing persons cases. The Senate Thursday passed on a 43-4 vote a bill requi...
Feb 25, 2022 25 News
Pekin man gets 25 years in prison on federal meth charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Pekin man is going to federal prison for 25 years after being convicted of federal methamphetamine-related charges. The U.S. Attorney's Office says a judge Tuesday sentenced Thomas Wr...
Feb 25, 2022 (2019 Peoria County Jail photo)
Bradley University changes mask policy as of Monday
PEORIA, Ill. - When Illinois' indoor mask mandate except for schools is lifted as of Monday, Bradley University's mask requirements will change as well. Bradley says in a news release masks will still...
Feb 25, 2022 Bradley University
Durbin reacts to Biden's Supreme Court pick
CHICAGO, Ill. - The name of D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is not unfamiliar to the Senate, or to its Judiciary Committee. That committee's chair is Illinois Senator Dick Du...
Feb 25, 2022 JoshBerglund19 / CC
Illinois sharing in massive multi-state opioid settlement
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- It's a drug settlement worth $26 billion. Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Friday that final approval of the national opioid settlement with drug companies like Johnson & Joh...
Feb 25, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
New bill recognizes importance of Illinois' emergency dispatchers
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Emergency dispatchers would be classified as first responders under a new bill that passed the Illinois Senate this week. Senator Neil Anderson, of Moline, says it's a simple chan...
Feb 25, 2022 U.S. Department of the Interior
Key U.S. senator backs more than $10 billion to handle Ukraine crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Coons, who chairs the Senate subcommittee that oversees foreign aid, said on Friday he would support an emergency spending bill of $10 billion or m...
Feb 25, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol building is pictured in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
