Category Archives: Top Stories
Minnesota ex-cop testifies at trial over killing of Daunte Wright
(Reuters) - Kimberly Potter, the white former Minnesota police officer who killed Black motorist Daunte Wright in April after claiming she mistook her handgun for her Taser, took the stand on Friday i...
Dec 17, 2021 Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran who resigned from the Brooklyn Center police force, poses for a booking photograph at Hennepin County Jail for fatally shooting 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. April 14, 2021 in a combination of photographs. Hennepin County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS
Illinois driver's license expiration deadlines extended into early 2022
Peoria, Ill -- Driver's License Exipiration dates are being extended in Illinois thanks to a COVID-stressed licensing and I.D. system. The announcement came early Friday from Illinois Secretary of Sta...
Dec 17, 2021 A woman enters a Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles drivers license service center, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, in Hialeah, Fla. The U.S. Census Bureau has asked the 50 states for drivers' license information, months after President Donald Trump ordered the collection of citizenship information. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Biden signals Build Back Better may be delayed until next year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday appeared to acknowledge that his Build Back Better spending bill may not pass Congress in the remaining weeks of this year, saying Democrats ...
Dec 17, 2021 Signs that read "Build Back Better" and "Expand Medicare" are seen as U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) speaks about the Build Back Better package outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, December 15, 2021. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Peoria shooting leaves one injured
PEORIA, Ill. -- One person was hospitalized after a shooting Thursday night in Peoria. It happened just before 8 p.m. in the 500 block of Haungs Avenue. Officers found a victim who with a gunshot woun...
Dec 17, 2021 (25 News)
PPD: Missing person found
UPDATE -- Friday 9:45 a.m. PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police say missing person Andrew Bigham (20) who was last seen Thursday night , has been located and is safe. ----------------------------------- PEOR...
Dec 17, 2021 (Peoria Police Dept.)
Schools responding to social media threat of potential violence
UPDATE -- 12/17 9:20 a.m. PEORIA, Ill. -- A threat of school shootings and bomb threats had school administrators on edge nationwide on Friday. Viral Tik-Tok videos were telling students to stay home....
Dec 16, 2021 Midwest Communications
War of words on Ameren utility rate hike
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Commerce Commission is approving what will end up being an increase on your Ameren Illinois bill. The commission has approved what the Citizens Utility Board calls a $...
Dec 16, 2021 Ameren Illinois
As Tri-County COVID cases spike, so do unnecessary hospital visits, says health official
PEORIA, Ill. - To say the local hospital system is taxed right now due to COVID-19 and other serious illnesses might be a bit of an understatement. Peoria City/County Health Department Administrator M...
Dec 16, 2021 Midwest Communications
CDC panel votes to recommend mRNA COVID-19 vaccines over J&J's
UPDATED 3:08 P.M. (Reuters) - A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday voted to recommend Americans choose to receive one of the other two authori...
Dec 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell
Biden signs bill raising U.S. debt limit into law - White House
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill raising the U.S. debt limit into law, the White House said in a statement, averting what would have been an unprecedented default. The U.S. Co...
Dec 16, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden holds a Cabinet meeting to discuss the implementation of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 12, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
