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Expert: Infrastructure bill will be a boon for Central IL ag business
Peoria, Ill -- There is across-the-board approval among local business interests about the trillion dollar bi-partisan infrastructure bill. Many analysts and top executives agree it will help in a wid...
Nov 16, 2021 REUTERS/Mike Blake
Kasper: It's important to see family during the holidays
PEORIA, Ill. -- Thanksgiving and Christmas are all about family. Local Infectious Diseases Specialist Dr. Doug Kasper, with the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, says it's importan...
Nov 16, 2021 OakleyOriginals / CC
Biden promises candor, Xi greets 'old friend' in U.S.-China talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping stressed their responsibility to the world to avoid conflict as the heads of the two top global economies gathered for hour...
Nov 16, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, speaks virtually with Chinese leader Xi Jinping from the White House in Washington, U.S. November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Russian anti-satellite missile test endangers space station crew - NASA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An anti-satellite missile test Russia conducted on Monday generated a debris field in low-Earth orbit that endangered the International Space Station and will pose a hazard to sp...
Nov 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, October 4, 2018. NASA/Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Court lottery gives Biden administration a chance to revive COVID vaccine mandate
(Reuters) - Lawsuits filed around the country challenging the Biden administration's workplace COVID-19 vaccine rule are expected to be consolidated in a single federal appeals court on Tuesday, givin...
Nov 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A man wears an anti-vaccine button as people and teachers protest against New York City mandated vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in front of the United States Court in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., October 12, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
Arson deemed cause of an overnight apartment fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Fire crews were called just after 12 a.m. Tuesday to the 2100 block of N. Linn Street in Peoria. Firefighters found flames coming from a window on the second floor of the four story ap...
Nov 16, 2021 (25 News)
Peoria Salvation Army kicks off Tree of Lights campaign
PEORIA, Ill. - $1.7 million -- that's what the Peoria Salvation Army says it needs to get through the first part of next year. That's being raised through the annual "Tree of Lights" campaign. "That's...
Nov 15, 2021
Biden signs $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden signed into law a $1 trillion infrastructure bill at a White House ceremony on Monday that drew Democrats and Republicans who pushed the legislation through a...
Nov 15, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden signs the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act", on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Autopsy conducted on young hit-and-run accident victim
PEORIA, Ill. - An autopsy has officially been conducted on the ten-year-old boy who died Friday after being struck by an alleged hit-and-run driver days before. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood sai...
Nov 15, 2021 (Troy Erving's family via 25 News)
Investigation launched into racist graffiti found in Pekin
Peoria, Ill -- An investigation is underway in the wake of someone finding racist graffiti at an apartment complex in Pekin. An image obtained by our news partner 25 News shows the words "White Power"...
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