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Pritzker signs bills addressing gun storage, tracing of firearms
Article summary: Senate Bill 8 requires gun owners to keep their weapons secured and inaccessible to minors, people at risk of harming themselves or others, and people prohibited from possessing firea...
Jul 28, 2025 Under new laws signed by Gov. JB Pritzker, firearm owners will soon be required to keep their weapons stored securely and out of the hands of minors while law enforcement agencies will be required to trace the ownership of all firearms they recover from crime scenes. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Teenager arrested after traffic stop in Peoria early Sunday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - A teenager was arrested after allegedly being in possession of a stolen vehicle early Sunday morning in Peoria. Peoria Police says a traffic stop was conducted on a previously reported ...
Jul 28, 2025
US, China hold new talks on tariff truce, easing path for Trump-Xi meeting
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Top U.S. and Chinese economic officials met in Stockholm on Monday for more than five hours of talks aimed at resolving longstanding economic disputes at the centre of a trade war...
Jul 28, 2025 Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson greets Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at Rosenbad before trade talks between the U.S. and China in Stockholm, Sweden July 28, 2025. TT News Agency/Fredrik Sandberg via REUTERS
New initiative aims to renovate Peoria South Side homes for low-income families
PEORIA, Ill. - A new initiative aims to renovate homes on Peoria's South Side to prepare them for new owners. The Peoria Opportunities Foundation and the Southside Community Center announced the proje...
Jul 28, 2025 (City of Peoria)
PPS Superintendent speaks before final year in district
PEORIA, Ill. - The superintendent of Peoria Public Schools is opening up about her decision to leave the district at the end of the school year. Earlier this month, Dr. Sharon Desmoulin-Kherat announc...
Jul 28, 2025 Peoria Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Sharon Desmoulin-Kherat speaks after the district's Convocation at the Peoria Civic Center before the start of the 2025-26 school year. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Trump says many are starving in Gaza, vows to set up food centres
UPDATED 1:11 P.M. CAIRO/GENEVA (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday many people were starving in Gaza and suggested Israel could do more on humanitarian access, as Palestinians strugg...
Jul 28, 2025 Displaced Palestinians who have not received humanitarian aid gather as they survive on leftover food, amid a hunger crisis, in Gaza, July 28, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Trump says he is reducing 50 day deadline for Russia on war in Ukraine
TURNBERRY, Scotland (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he was reducing the 50-day deadline he gave Russia over its war in Ukraine, underscoring his frustration with Russian Presiden...
Jul 28, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump meets with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (not pictured), in Turnberry, Scotland, Britain, July 27, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
44th Memphis to Peoria run kicks off Tuesday ahead of St. Jude telethon on Saturday
PEORIA, Ill. - St. Jude Week gets underway with the annual Memphis to Peoria run beginning Tuesday morning and the telethon raising millions of dollars for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Over ...
Jul 28, 2025 Participants in the 43nd annual Memphis to Peoria Run travel through the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital campus on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.
(St. Jude Runs Facebook Page)
Sunday afternoon crash west of Peoria leaves motorcyclist seriously injured
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - The Peoria County Sheriff's Office says a motorcyclist was seriously injured late Sunday afternoon in a head-on crash with a truck west of Peoria in Limestone Township. Sheriff C...
Jul 28, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
GasBuddy: Peoria gas prices drop a few cents as demand eases up as we head into August
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have dropped 2.7 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.29 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Peoria's prices are 6...
Jul 28, 2025 Orin Zebest / CC
