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UPDATE: Suspect in South Pekin double homicide shooting identified
UPDATED: 8:30 A.M. 4/25 SOUTH PEKIN, Ill. - The suspect accused in a double homicide in South Pekin from early Thursday morning has been identified. Tazewell County Sheriff Jeffrey Lower says 21-year-...
Apr 24, 2025 (Tazewell County Sheriff's Office)
Dollar rally unravels as investors shrug off Trump U-turns
LONDON (Reuters) -The dollar staged a broad retreat on Thursday, as investor gloom over the lack of any real progress towards defusing the U.S./China trade war reasserted itself following a brief inte...
Apr 24, 2025 U.S. dollar banknotes are seen in this illustration taken March 19, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Crowds queue to pay final respects to Pope Francis at the Vatican
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - St. Peter's Basilica opened its doors again on Thursday after a brief closure in the early hours to welcome crowds of worshippers from around the world lining up to pay their ...
Apr 24, 2025 A nun sits on side of the road as faithful queue to enter St. Peter's Basilica to pay respect as Pope Francis lies in state, as seen from Rome, Italy, April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
State reports first measles case in southern Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Department of Public Health confirmed Wednesday afternoon the first case of measles in the state. The measles diagnosis involving an adult in f...
Apr 24, 2025 The first case of measles in Illinois has been confirmed since an outbreak of more than 800 cases first was reported in New Mexico and Texas earlier this year. (CDC via Unsplash.com)
Peoria County looking into adding RV park at Wildlife Prairie Park
PEORIA, Ill. - An RV park could be coming to Wildlife Prairie Park. The Peoria County Land Use Committee on Monday forwarded a recommendation to the full board of allowing a Special Use permit for 40 ...
Apr 24, 2025 (Wildlife Prairie Park Facebook)
Jury in Sen. Emil Jones III bribery trial indicates possible deadlock
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - The jury considering state Sen. Emil Jones III's federal corruption trial indicated late Wednesday that it may be deadlocked on two of the three counts Jones is charg...
Apr 24, 2025 The jury considering state Sen. Emil Jones III’s federal corruption trial may be deadlocked on two of the three counts against the senator, according to a note jurors sent the judge late Wednesday, April 23, after 18 hours of deliberations. The judge indicated she will instruct the jury on Thursday to keep trying. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Trump and Zelenskiy clash again and US warns it could abandon Ukraine talks
WASHINGTON/LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy clashed again on Wednesday on efforts to end the three-year-old war in Ukraine, with the U.S...
Apr 23, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a press conference, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2025. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Photo
Former Reditus Labs CEO pleas guilty in two cases
PEORIA, Ill. - The former CEO of Reditus Labs has entered plea deals in two pending cases. 25 News reports Aaron Rossi has pleaded guilty to one count each of healthcare fraud and wire fraud in his fe...
Apr 23, 2025 (25 News)
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin announces he will not seek re-election
CHICAGO, Ill. - U.S. Senator Dick Durbin will not seek another term in office. The Democrat announced in a video on Wednesday that his current term, his 5th in the Senate that expires in 2026, will be...
Apr 23, 2025 U.S Senator Dick Durbin speaks in front of the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research against proposed cuts by the Trump administration to the facility. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Judges extend Venezuela deportation blocks, question Trump's use of wartime law
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Two U.S. judges on Tuesday extended temporary blocks on some deportations of Venezuelan migrants and signaled that President Donald Trump's invocation of a 1798 law historically us...
Apr 23, 2025 A drone view of detainees at the the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, the facility where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S., April 22, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake
