Category Archives: Top Stories
Finally free? Judge to consider ending restrictions on Britney Spears
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop superstar Britney Spears may be freed as early as Friday from a conservatorship that she has called abusive and humiliating if a Los Angeles judge rules in her favor and en...
Nov 12, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator wears a T-Shirt in support of Britney Spears during a "Free Britney" demonstration on the Ellipse, near the White House, in Washington, U.S. October 23, 2021. REUTERS/Shuran Huang/File Photo
Judge in Rittenhouse trial will not allow jury to consider lesser charge in shooting
KENOSHA, Wisc. (Reuters) - The judge in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse said on Friday he would not allow the jury to consider a lesser charge in the shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum, one of two men ...
Nov 12, 2021 Kyle Rittenhouse enters the courtroom during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha (Wisconsin) Circuit Court in Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S., November 9, 2021. Mark Hertzberg/Pool via REUTERS
Trump defends chants by rioters on Jan. 6 threatening to hang Pence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump defended his supporters' chants threatening to hang Vice President Mike Pence as they stormed the U.S. Capitol in a deadly riot on Jan. 6, accordin...
Nov 12, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Members of the far-right group Proud Boys make 'OK' hand gestures indicating "white power" as supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building to protest against the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/File Photo
'We don't want any more Black pastors' in Arbery murder trial, lawyer says
(Reuters) - A lawyer for one of the three white men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery said his team did not want "any more Black pastors coming" into the Georgia courtroom after a civil rights leader...
Nov 12, 2021 Defense attorney Kevin Gough reacts as he speaks at the jury selection in the trial of William "Roddie" Bryan, Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael, charged with the February 2020 death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, at the Gwynn County Superior Court, in Brunswick, Georgia, U.S. October 27, 2021. REUTERS/Octavio Jones/Pool/Files
U.S. prosecutors want jury to consider lesser charges in Rittenhouse trial
KENOSHA, Wis. (Reuters) -Prosecutors in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse said they would seek approval for the jury to consider lesser charges after days of testimony in which the U.S. teenager an...
Nov 11, 2021 John Black, use-of-force expert, is pictured next to Kyle Rittenhouse and defence attorney before the start of Kyle Rittenhouse's trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S., November 11, 2021. Mark Hertzberg/Pool via REUTERS
Family: Accident victim is now 'brain dead'
PEORIA, Ill. - The young child allegedly hit by a hit-and-run driver earlier this week is close to losing his life. That's according to Ariel Ivory -- the mother of Troy Erving, 10. Ivory tells our ne...
Nov 11, 2021 (Troy Erving's family via 25 News)
U.S. appeals court pauses release of Trump documents to House riot probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Thursday put off allowing congressional investigators access to former President Donald Trump's White House records relating to the Jan. 6 attack on the U...
Nov 11, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A mob of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump fight with members of law enforcement at a door they broke open as they storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Lawmakers hear about concerns with health services for veterans
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Some Illinois lawmakers are using this week of Veterans Day to hear about the health challenges of men and women in uniform, and how the state can help. At an Illinois House commit...
Nov 11, 2021 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Pekin woman pleads guilty to death of infant daughter
PEKIN, Ill. - A Pekin woman has pleaded guilty to a charge of Involuntary Manslaughter stemming from the death of her infant daughter last year. Tazewell County Circuit Court records indicate Angel Va...
Nov 11, 2021 (Tazewell County Jail)
Astroworld Festival death toll rises as 22-year-old Texas student succumbs to injuries
HOUSTON (Reuters) -The death toll in the Astroworld Festival stampede rose to nine with the death of a 22-year-old Texas college student late on Wednesday, according to a lawyer for the family. A stam...
Nov 11, 2021 FILE PHOTO: The back side of one of the stages from the 2021 Astroworld Festival is seen through a tarp near a makeshift memorial for the concertgoers who died in a stampede during a Travis Scott performance in Houston, Texas, U.S., November 9, 2021. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare
