Category Archives: Top Stories
Pekin approves land deal for medical parts plant, approves final cannabis dispensary
PEKIN, Ill. - Pekin City Council voted unanimously Monday night to sell 67 acres of city-owned land to Singapore-based medical equipment maker Epic. The property at the Riverway Business Park, being s...
Mar 25, 2025
Nazis were treated better than Venezuelans deported by Trump, judge says at hearing
(Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court judge said on Monday that Nazis were given more rights to contest their removal from the United States during World War Two than Venezuelan migrants deported by the Tru...
Mar 25, 2025 Salvadoran police officers escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua recently deported by the U.S. government to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, as part of an agreement with the Salvadoran government, at the San Oscar Arnulfo Romero international airport in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, in this handout image obtained March 16, 2025. Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Pritzker vetoes bill that would have required warehouse workers to know their quotas
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois)- Gov. JB Pritzker issued a rare veto Friday of a bill that would require warehouse workers in Illinois to know quotas they must meet at their jobs. While signing 16...
Mar 25, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at a Rockford stop on his "Standing Up for Illinois” tour on Friday, March 21, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
White House mistakenly shares Yemen war plans with a journalist at The Atlantic
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top Trump administration officials mistakenly disclosed war plans in a messaging group that included a journalist shortly before the U.S. attacked Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis, t...
Mar 24, 2025 U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, U.S. Vice President JD Vance and U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz react as, U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (not pictured), in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 13, 2025.U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, U.S. Vice President JD Vance and U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz react as, U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (not pictured), in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 13, 2025.
U.S. Postal Service chief DeJoy steps down
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who led efforts to restructure the money-losing U.S. Postal Service for nearly five years, has resigned effective immediately, the agency said on ...
Mar 24, 2025
Hyundai, Trump announce $21 billion US investment, new steel plant
WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group announced a $21 billion investment in the United States with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday. The investment includes...
Mar 24, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Hyundai logo is seen during Munich Auto Show, IAA Mobility 2021 in Munich, Germany, September 8, 2021. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo
Peoria County Coroner IDs motorcyclist killed in multi-vehicle crash on Saturday night
The victim of a multi-vehicle crash in Peoria over the weekend has been identified. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says 25-year-old Ian Harvey of East Peoria was operating a motorcycle that was h...
Mar 24, 2025
Five transgender US Armed Forces members ask judge for shield from ban
(Reuters) - Five transgender U.S. military members asked a judge on Monday to block actions against them under President Donald Trump's transgender ban, including administrative leave and exclusion fr...
Mar 24, 2025 U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, June 22, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/File Photo
Bradley University to officially welcome its new president
PEORIA, Ill. - Bradley University will host a welcoming celebration to officially introduce James Shadid as the university's 13th president. The event will take place April 8 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Renai...
Mar 24, 2025 Federal Judge James Shadid, who has served the District of Central Illinois, has been named the new president of Bradley University
(1470 WMBD Radio--Julia Bradley)
Trump takes challenge to judge's federal worker rehiring order to Supreme Court
(Reuters) -President Donald Trump's administration brought its bid to purge the federal workforce to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, challenging a judicial directive to rehire thousands of fired gov...
Mar 24, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 21, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
