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Illinois American Water gives grants to local fire departments
BELLEVILLE, Ill. -- A number of Central Illinois fire departments are receiving shares of Illinois American Water's 2021 Firefighter Grant Program, totaling $92,000. Local departments sharing the gran...
Oct 04, 2021
Lindsey Stirling, Harlem Globetrotters coming to Peoria Civic Center
PEORIA, Ill. - Two more big events are coming to the Peoria Civic Center in the coming months. The Civic Center announced Monday that singer and violinist Lindsey Stirling will bring a Christmas-theme...
Oct 04, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
J&J to seek U.S. FDA authorization of booster shot this week - NYT
(Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson is planning to ask U.S. federal regulators this week to authorize a booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine, the New York Times reported https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021...
Oct 04, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Vials with a sticker reading, "COVID-19 / Coronavirus vaccine / Injection only" and a medical syringe are seen in front of a displayed Johnson & Johnson logo in this illustration taken October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo/File Photo
U.S. Democrats to pare climate, social spending; no clear target
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Congressional Democrats face the hard work of paring back the White House's sweeping infrastructure and social agenda in the week ahead, but have yet to agree on a target size fo...
Oct 04, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden talks to reporters as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi watches after the president met with Democratic lawmakers at the U.S. Capitol to promote his bipartisan infrastructure bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 1, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Texas law sparks hundreds of U.S. protests against abortion restrictions
WASHINGTON/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -Women marched by the thousands on Saturday on the Supreme Court, the Texas Capitol and cities across the United States to protest increasing state restrictions on a...
Oct 03, 2021 REUTERS/Go Nakamura
Breast cancer survivors celebrated during "More Than Pink" Walk
PEORIA, Ill. - (25 News) - It was a sea of pink and and a celebration of sisterhood at Peoria's Metro Centre for Susan G. Komen's "More Than Pink" walk. Breast cancer survivors came together in person...
Oct 03, 2021 25 News
Peoria man's body recovered from Illinois River
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Crews from Fon du Lac Park District Police recovered a Peoria man's body from the Illinois River. The victim is only identified as 31-years-old. The identity and more information a...
Oct 03, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Keeping lines of communication open during an emergency
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - (25 News) - Central Illinois amateur radio operators held a practice session to demonstrate how to keep up communication when disaster strikes. Peoria County's Amateur Radio Emerge...
Oct 03, 2021 25 News
Biden says he'll "work like hell" to pass infrastructure, social spending bills
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday he was going to "work like hell" to get both an infrastructure bill and a multi-trillion-dollar social spending bill passed through Cong...
Oct 02, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden talks to reporters as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi watches after the president met with Democratic lawmakers at the U.S. Capitol to promote his bipartisan infrastructure bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 1, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
U.S. COVID-19 death toll hits 700,000
(Reuters) - The United States surpassed 700,000 coronavirus-related deaths on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, as officials roll out booster doses of vaccines to protect the elderly and people wo...
Oct 02, 2021 People visit Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's "In America: Remember", a memorial for Americans who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as the national death toll nears 700,000, next to the Washington Monument in Washington, U.S., October 1, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis
