Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria woman celebrates 105th birthday
Peoria woman celebrates 105th birthday PEORIA, Ill. - (25 News) - A Peoria woman is celebrating living well over a century as she turns 105 years old this weekend. The Grand View Alzheimer's Special C...
Oct 10, 2021 25 News
Display of coffins used as anti-violence message
PEORIA, Ill. - (25 News) - A coffin display was placed along West Lincoln Avenue Saturday. The display was in response to Wednesday's fatal shooting of a Manual High School senior. The coffins were di...
Oct 10, 2021 25 News
Man pleads guilty to federal charges in Creve Coeur gun thefts
PEORIA, Ill. - Federal authorities say a Peoria man is one of the last to plead guilty to his role in the theft of several guns including a high power rifle from a Creve Coeur gun dealer last year. Th...
Oct 09, 2021 Adobe Stock
Spoon River Scenic Drive and other events this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - If you're looking to get out of town Saturday or tomorrow (Sunday), you might want to make the short drive over to Fulton County. The annual Spoon River Scenic Drive is in the final wee...
Oct 09, 2021 (Spoon River Scenic Drive Facebook)
McConnell says Republicans will not again aid Democrats in raising debt limit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One day after the Senate approved a temporary lift to the U.S. debt ceiling, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden that he would not ...
Oct 09, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to reporters following the Senate Republicans weekly policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2021. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
U.S. appeals court reinstates Texas abortion law, two days after it was halted
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court late on Friday temporarily reinstated Texas's restrictive abortion law, which bars the procedure as early as six weeks into pregnancy and outsources enforcem...
Oct 09, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Supporters of reproductive choice take part in the nationwide Women's March, held after Texas rolled out a near-total ban on abortion procedures and access to abortion-inducing medications, in New York City, New York, U.S. October 2, 2021. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
Canton woman arrested for murder of infant
CANTON, Ill. - Police in Canton say a woman there has been arrested for allegedly killing a five-month-old baby. Canton Police said early Saturday on social media they arrested Joslynn M. Graham, 23, ...
Oct 09, 2021
Blinken cautions Haitian migrants against 'profoundly dangerous' trek to U.S
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday warned Haitian migrants that they would not succeed in reaching the United States, while his Mexican counterpart lamented that m...
Oct 09, 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Mexico's Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard speak during a U.S.-Mexico High Level Security Dialogue (HLSD) at the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City, Mexico, October 8, 2021. Patrick Semansky/Pool via REUTERS
Facebook Messenger, Instagram facing issues for second time in a week
(Reuters) -Facebook Inc confirmed on Friday that some users were having trouble accessing its apps and services, days after the social media giant suffered a six-hour outage triggered by an error duri...
Oct 08, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Instagram logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Ameren Illinois tests new technology to "sniff" out natural gas leaks
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. - Ameren Illinois is using new technology to help better identify natural gas leaks and increase the utility's response time to them. The utility is testing out a "gas sniffer" that...
Oct 08, 2021 Ameren Illinois
