Category Archives: Top Stories
In first 100 days, Trump tells migrants 'leave the United States'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Taras Atamanchuk found safety for his family near Houston, Texas. The 32-year-old moved to the U.S. with his wife and daughter in 2023 throug...
Apr 25, 2025 Taras Atamanchuk with his daughter Violet and wife Viktoria attend his son Maximilian's baptism at a church in Sugar Land, Texas, U.S., April 14, 2024. Courtesy of Taras Atamanchuk/Handout via REUTERS
Jury deadlocks, mistrial declared in federal bribery case of Sen. Emil Jones III
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A federal judge on Thursday declared a mistrial in the case of state Sen. Emil Jones III, D-Chicago, after a jury deadlocked in their deliberations over whether...
Apr 25, 2025 State Sen. Emil Jones III walks into the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on April 15, 2025. After hearing two weeks of evidence and testimony in his corruption trial and deliberating for nearly 23 hours, a jury on Thursday deadlocked on charges that Jones agreed to accept bribes and lied to the FBI about it. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Victims of South Pekin double homicide identified
SOUTH PEKIN, Ill. - Two 21-year-old men have been identified as the victims in a fatal shooting in South Pekin early Thursday morning. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley says the victims are Chase...
Apr 24, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Sorensen visits Midwest Food Bank in Peoria to discuss food insecurity
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria-area Congressman is raising concerns over food insecurity with a visit to a food bank. 17th District Congressman Eric Sorensen (D-Moline) visited the Midwest Food Bank in Peori...
Apr 24, 2025 17th District Congressman Eric Sorensen (D-Moline) (left) and Midwest Food Bank CEO Eric Hodel (right) chat during a tour of the organization's Peoria facility. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US judge blocks Trump from withholding funds from 16 'sanctuary' cities, counties
(Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday blocked Donald Trump's administration from withholding federal funding from more than a dozen so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that have declined to cooperate w...
Apr 24, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump looks on, as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Judge partly blocks Trump order imposing new rules on US elections
(Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked parts of President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to impose new rules on federal elections, which Democrats and other groups said risked denying eli...
Apr 24, 2025 People vote in the 2024 U.S. presidential election on Election Day in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., November 5, 2024. REUTERS/Megan Jelinger/File Photo
Date set for murder trial of former Sangamon County deputy to take place in Peoria County
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A date has been set for the murder trial of a former Sangamon County sheriff's deputy, set to take place in Peoria County. At a hearing Wednesday, the trial of Sean Grayson was sch...
Apr 24, 2025 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Shooter in 2022 Chicago-area parade massacre sentenced to life in prison
Chicago (Reuters) - An Illinois judge on Thursday sentenced a man to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a 2022 mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb that ki...
Apr 24, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Robert E. Crimo III. arrives for his trial in Judge Victoria A. Rossetti’s courtroom in Waukegan, Illinois, U.S., March 3, 2025. Nam Y. Huh/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Trump on Russia strikes on Kyiv: 'Vladimir, STOP!"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump turned his criticism on Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday after Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight, saying "Vladimir, STOP!...
Apr 24, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event to sign executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton announces U.S. Senate campaign
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton is the first Democrat to step into what is expected to be a crowded race to fill Sen. Dick Durbin's Senate seat. Stratton launched her c...
Apr 24, 2025 Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton speaks at the Illinois Democratic County Chairs’ Association brunch in Springfield in August 2024. She became the first high-ranking Democrat to formally announce her candidacy for U.S. Senate on Thursday, April 24, one day after Illinois’ senior U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin announced he would not run again after his term ends in 2026. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
