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Storms brought heavy rain and tornadoes to Central IL Wednesday
PEORIA, Ill. - Severe storms that rolled through Central Illinois on Wednesday brought heavy rain and some tornadoes. The National Weather Service in Lincoln says tornadoes were reported in Tazewell, ...
Jun 19, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
GOP lawsuit seeks to end 'gut-and-replace' legislation
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A group of Republican lawmakers filed a lawsuit this week that seeks to nullify legislation they say would indelibly alter both the business and legal lands...
Jun 18, 2025 Senate President Don Harmon, left, and House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch are named as defendants in a lawsuit challenging passage of a bill that would make a significant change in state law regarding corporate liability. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Peter Hancock)
Teen to spend 14 years in prison in death of mother in Peoria's East Bluff
PEORIA, Ill. - A teenager will spend more than a decade in prison for the strangulation death of his mother in Peoria's East Bluff two years ago. 25 News reports 19-year-old Avion Tapia will spend the...
Jun 18, 2025 courtroom gavel
Fed keeps rates steady but pencils in two cuts by end of 2025; Powell sees 'meaningful' inflation ahead
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. central bank held interest rates steady on Wednesday and policymakers signaled borrowing costs are still likely to fall in 2025, but Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell ...
Jun 18, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends a press conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on interest rate policy in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 7, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Iran leader rejects US demand for surrender; Trump says patience has run out
DUBAI/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected Donald Trump's demand for unconditional surrender on Wednesday, and the U.S. president said his patience had run out, ...
Jun 18, 2025 A drone photo shows the damage over residential homes and at the impact site following missile attack from Iran on Israel, in Rishon LeZion, Israel, June 14, 2025. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
US Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law banning youth transgender care
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court backed a Republican-backed ban in Tennessee on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors on Wednesday in a setback for transgender rights that c...
Jun 18, 2025 FILE PHOTO: People gather and react outside the U.S. Supreme Court on the day it heard arguments over an appeal by U.S. President Joe Biden's administration of a lower court's decision upholding a Republican-backed ban in Tennessee on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, in Washington, U.S., December 4, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
US military ready to carry out any Trump decisions on Iran, Hegseth says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military is ready to carry out any decision that President Donald Trump may make on Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday, suggesting that the U.S. dire...
Jun 18, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attends a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on U.S. President Donald Trump's budget request for the Department of Defense, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 11, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Coroner identifies body found in box truck in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - The identity of the body found in a box truck in Peoria last week is now known. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says the body is of 73-year-old Edward DeArcos of Peoria. DeArcos' bo...
Jun 18, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
US weekly jobless claims fall, but still elevated
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, but stayed at levels consistent with a further loss of labor market momentum in June. In...
Jun 18, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A job seeker leaves the job fair for airport related employment at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., December 7, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Arson to blame for fire at a Peoria assisted living facility
PEORIA, Ill. - Firefighters responded early Wednesday morning to a fire alarm at an assisted living facility on W. Richwoods Boulevard in Peoria. Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Hascall says crews arrived a...
Jun 18, 2025 Midwest Communications
