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UPDATE: CEO reacts after Peoria agency that serves low-income people loses state grants
UPDATED 5:32 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The head of the Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity says help will still get to the people that need it the most. PCCEO CEO Denise Moore spoke on Friday...
Aug 08, 2025 Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity building. (25 News)
Judge denies ex-Speaker Madigan's request to remain out of prison during appeal
Article Summary A judge has denied former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's motion to remain free as the legal appeal process plays out for both his corruption conviction and prison sentence. M...
Aug 08, 2025 Former Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan departs the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after receiving a 7 ½-year prison sentence on corruption charges on June 13, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
DHS Secretary Noem defends ICE tactics in second Illinois visit
Article Summary: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made her second visit to Illinois Friday to call on the state to end "sanctuary" immigration laws. Rep. Barbara Hernandez filed a bill in Sprin...
Aug 08, 2025 U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem holds a news conference at a Homeland Security office in Lombard on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (Screenshot via U.S. Department of Homeland Security livestream)
Peoria County judge orders man to remain in jail after allegedly shooting brother in West Bluff
PEORIA, Ill. - A judge has granted a petition to detain a man in prison after allegedly shooting his brother inside a home in Peoria on Thursday afternoon. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office ...
Aug 08, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis for the h...
Aug 08, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell (L to R), former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, Sen. John Glenn and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden talk at a private memorial service celebrating the life of Neil Armstrong at the Camargo Club in Cincinnati, Ohio in this August 31, 2012 NASA handout photo/File Photo
Endowment established at Peoria Riverfront Museum to honor longtime member
PEORIA, Ill. - A new endowment has been established at the Peoria Riverfront Museum by a longtime member and supporter. The museum announced Friday the Mike Rucker Endowment Fund for Science, made pos...
Aug 08, 2025 (Peoria Riverfront Museum)
Texas Republicans restrict pay for missing Democrats in redistricting dispute
(Reuters) -Texas Republicans on Friday sought to increase the pressure on more than 50 Democratic lawmakers who left the state to prevent a vote on a new congressional map, announcing that absent stat...
Aug 08, 2025 Texas House of Representatives House Speaker Dustin Burrows gavels in on the fourth day legislators lacked a quorum because Democratic lawmakers left the state denying Republicans the opportunity to redraw the state's 38 congressional districts, at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, U.S., August 7, 2025. REUTERS/Nuri Vallbona/File Photo
Central Illinois school districts learn payout amounts from evidence-based funding
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - School districts across central Illinois are receiving a portion of more than $300 million issued by the state in its evidence-based funding formula for fiscal year 26. The formula...
Aug 08, 2025 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Justice Dept probes NY case against Trump, AG James blasts 'weaponization'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James over her civil fraud case against President Donald Trump, a person familiar with the probe to...
Aug 08, 2025 New York Attorney General Letitia James holds a press conference in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., February 16, 2024. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado/File Photo
Trump officials will not face contempt over Venezuela deportations, appeals court rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court overturned on Friday a lower court's ruling that found probable cause to hold Trump administration officials in contempt of court over their handling of the ...
Aug 08, 2025 Venezuelan migrants arrive after being deported from U.S., at Simon Bolivar International Airport, in Maiquetia, Venezuela June 17, 2025. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/File Photo
