Category Archives: Top Stories
Zelenskiy says Trump is in disinformation bubble on Ukraine
(Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hit back on Wednesday at Donald Trump's suggestion that Ukraine was responsible for Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion, saying the U.S. president was...
Feb 19, 2025 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy gives a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 19, 2025, amid the Russian attack on Ukraine. TETIANA DZHAFAROVA/Pool via REUTERS
Investigation leads to large drug bust, guns found in Pekin
PEKIN, Ill. - A man is in custody in Tazewell County after Pekin Police seized over three kilos of cocaine and loaded guns. In a Facebook post, Pekin Police say the arrest concludes a three-month narc...
Feb 19, 2025 (Pekin Police Department--Facebook page)
Pritzker to call for expansion of 4-year degree offerings at some community colleges
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker plans to offer a proposal in his budget address Wednesday that would allow some community colleges to offer four-year baccalaureate degrees...
Feb 19, 2025 The Illinois Community College System headquarters is pictured in downtown Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Families displaced by apartment garage fire in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Just after 10 p.m. Tuesday, Peoria firefighters were sent to a reported fire at the Versailles Hamlet Apartments on W. Loire Court. Fire Battalion Chief Rick Waldron says they found hea...
Feb 19, 2025 Midwest Communications
US, Russia forge ahead on peace talks, without Ukraine
RIYADH (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said on Tuesday it had agreed to hold more talks with Russia on ending the war in Ukraine after an initial meeting that excluded Kyiv, a ...
Feb 18, 2025 U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sits next to U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff during a meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad Al-Aiban, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 18, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool
US judge will not block Elon Musk from firing federal workers, accessing data
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge on Tuesday declined to immediately block Elon Musk's government efficiency department from directing firings of federal workers or accessing databases, but said the case r...
Feb 18, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk listens to U.S. President Donald Trump speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 11, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Two Peoria Men Sentenced to Federal Prison for Firearm Charges
PEORIA Ill. - Two Peoria men have been sentenced to multiple years in federal prison for robbery and firearm offenses. According to the United States Attorney's Office Central District of Illinois, 29...
Feb 18, 2025 (Left: Tyrone Curtis Right: Isaiah Holland)
Committee advances bill to ban vehicle searches based on smell of cannabis
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS. - An Illinois Senate committee advanced a bill on Tuesday that would strictly limit police's ability to search a vehicle after smelling cannabis. The Senate Criminal Law Committ...
Feb 18, 2025 A Senate committee advanced a bill that would end the state’s law requiring cannabis to be transported in an odor-proof container. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Peoria Police looking for suspects in weekend robbery in Peoria
PEORIA Ill. - Peoria Police are actively searching for suspects from a weekend robbery in Peoria. According to officers, just after 1:15am on Saturday, they responded to the Hardees fast-food restaura...
Feb 18, 2025
Eliminating immigrant spending, boosting education funding top Senate Republican budget priorities
SPRINGFIELD - A day ahead of Gov. JB Pritzker's annual budget address Wednesday, Senate Republicans said they want budget negotiations to include cuts to noncitizen spending while bringing in "transpa...
Feb 18, 2025 Senate Republican Leader John Curran, R-Downers Grove, center, speaks at a Statehouse news conference Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, about Gov. JB Pritzker’s upcoming budget address. Joining him were Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Morris, left, and Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet, right. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jade Aubrey)
