Category Archives: Top Stories
Washington Police asking for help following Wednesday night fatal crash
WASHINGTON, Ill. - Police in Washington need some help from the public getting to the bottom of an accident Wednesday night that claimed the life of a local resident. Police say after the initial cras...
Feb 11, 2022 (25 News)
Twitter back online after software glitch disrupts services
UPDATED 1:10 P.M. (Reuters) -Twitter Inc said on Friday it had fixed a software glitch in its micro-blogging website that had disrupted services for several thousands of its users. "We've fixed a tech...
Feb 11, 2022 FILE PHOTO: People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo
Local Starbucks workers want to unionize
PEORIA, Ill. --Starbucks workers at the Campustown location on W. Main in Peoria are demanding union recognition. A release from the Chicago & Midwest Regional Joint Board of Workers United says a...
Feb 11, 2022 Faye / CC
U.S. plans to roll out COVID-19 shots for children under 5 years this month
(Reuters) - The U.S. government is planning to roll out COVID-19 shots for children under the age of 5 as soon as Feb. 21, according to a document from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...
Feb 11, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A syringe is filled with a dose of Pfizer's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a pop-up community vaccination center at the Gateway World Christian Center in Valley Stream, New York, U.S., February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
U.S. tells American diplomats to get out of Ukraine
Melbourne, AU (FOX News) -- The U.S. government estimates that about 30,000 Americans are in Ukraine. At a meeting with members of the Quad Nations in Melbourne, Australia, Secretary of State Antony B...
Feb 11, 2022 A view shows the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Jan. 6 investigators find gaps in White House call logs - NYT
(Reuters) - The U.S. House committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on Congress has found gaps in official White House telephone logs on the day of the deadly riot, with few records of calls by then ...
Feb 11, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Police release tear gas into a crowd of pro-Trump protesters during clashes at a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Lawmakers probe Trump's handling of White House records
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. congressional committee is investigating former President Donald Trump's handling of White House records after 15 boxes of documents were transferred from his Florida reso...
Feb 11, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump pauses as he announces his decision that the United States will withdraw from the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Peoria Civic Center celebrates 40 years
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Civic Center is celebrating 40 years of entertainment in the River City. A special event was held Thursday, looking back on the concerts, sporting events and shows that have...
Feb 11, 2022 (25 News)
Illinois American Water files rate change request
BELLEVILLE, Ill. - The 1.3 million customers of Illinois American Water, including here in Peoria, may end up paying more for water and wastewater services this time next year. That's because Illinois...
Feb 10, 2022 Illinois American Water
New COVID cases continue to drop locally
PEORIA, Ill. - A "steady decline". That's how Peoria City/County Health Department Administrator Monica Hendrickson describes the average number of new COVID-19 cases in the Tri-County area since the ...
Feb 10, 2022 Midwest Communications
