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UPDATE: Overturned cement truck closes part of Rt. 29, driver injured
UPDATED 6:03 P.M. EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- An overturned cement truck blocked northbound Rt. 29 at Cedar Street, to the Cedar Street Bridge in East Peoria during the Monday morning commute, and caused the...
Oct 18, 2021 25 News
Trump sues U.S. House panel investigating Jan. 6 attack -court document; committee rejects Bannon 'privilege' argument in Jan. 6 probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday against the U.S. congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, alleging it made an illeg...
Oct 18, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Reps. Elaine Luria (D-VA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD) speak to the press after the House Select Committee hearing investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 27, 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Trump questioned under oath in lawsuit over alleged Trump Tower assault
(Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump testified under oath on Monday as part of a civil lawsuit brought by protesters who allege they were assaulted by his security guards in New York in 2015, a la...
Oct 18, 2021 Plaintiff's lawyer Benjamin Dictor speaks to the media outside Trump Tower on the day that former U.S. President Donald Trump was deposed in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., October 18, 2021. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Fire causes damage to Hanna City garage, spreads to second garage and two homes
HANNA CITY, Ill. - A fire to a garage in Hanna City early Monday morning caused an estimated $200,000 in damage. That's according to the Logan-Trivoli Fire Department. Crews from there and several oth...
Oct 18, 2021 Midwest Communications
LaHood: Powell was an "outstanding American"
PEORIA, Ill. - Former Congressman and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he was always impressed with former Secretary of State, General Colin Powell. Powell died Monday from complications due t...
Oct 18, 2021 1470 100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
Biden administration asks U.S. Supreme Court to block Texas abortion law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden's administration on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on abortion after a lower court reinstated the Repu...
Oct 18, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A supporter of reproductive rights holds a sign outside the Texas State Capitol building during the nationwide Women's March, held after Texas rolled out a near-total ban on abortion procedures and access to abortion-inducing medications, in Austin, Texas, U.S. October 2, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Pritzker: Abortions, electric vehicles could come up during Fall Veto Session
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker has some definite things he'd like to see taken care of when the fall veto session begins in Springfield Tuesday. Pritzker made an amendatory veto to what was ...
Oct 18, 2021 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
U.S. Supreme Court again protects police accused of excessive force
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday signaled that it is not retreating from its inclination to grant a legal protection called "qualified immunity" to police accused in lawsuits of using exces...
Oct 18, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S. June 25, 2021. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
Ex- joint chiefs of staff Powell dies of COVID complications -Facebook post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Colin Powell, the first black U.S. secretary of state and top military officer, died on Monday at the age of 84 from COVID-19 complications, his family said in a statement. "He ...
Oct 18, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Army Four Star General and former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks at the funeral for the late U.S. Army Four Star General H. Norman Schwarzkopf at the Cadet Chapel at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, February 28, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Congress still debating Biden's spending bills
WASHINGTON, D.C. (FOX NEWS) -- Congress is still debating the $1.2 trillion "Hard Infrastructure" bill already passed by the Senate, as well as the proposed $3.5 trillion "Human Infrastructure Reconci...
Oct 18, 2021 mwc
