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Afghan asylum-seeker drives into Munich crowd, hurts 28 in suspected attack
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) -Some 28 people were injured when a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd of people in Munich in what the state premier said was probably an attack on Thu...
Feb 13, 2025 Police work at a car which drove into a crowd in Munich, Germany, February 13, 2025, injuring several people. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
Peoria area only receives a couple inches of snow in Wednesday's storm, Snowfighters work continues
PEORIA, Ill. - Most of the Peoria area only received a couple inches of snow in Wednesday's winter storm. Estimates from the National Weather Service show most of the area received anywhere between 1-...
Feb 13, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Hamas says it is willing to move ahead with Gaza ceasefire
CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Palestinian militant group Hamas signalled on Thursday that a crisis threatening to unravel the Gaza ceasefire deal could be avoided despite uncertainty over the number...
Feb 13, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Palestinians wait to buy bread, amid a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, February 3, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas/File Photo
Man charged on six counts of Residential Burglary in Peoria
UPDATED: 4:55PM PEORIA Ill. - The Springfield man arrested on Tuesday on multiple burglary charges, will remain in jail until his trial. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 34-year-old Ke...
Feb 13, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Kennedy to clear final Senate hurdle in bid for top US health job
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine critic who endorsed President Donald Trump after abandoning his own presidential bid, inched closer to becoming U.S. secretary of Health and Hum...
Feb 13, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President Trump’s nominee to be secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Illinois lawmakers react to Madigan corruption verdict
SPRINGFIELD - Illinois lawmakers voiced a wide range of reactions Wednesday following former House Speaker Michael Madigan's conviction on multiple federal corruption charges. Republicans, who have lo...
Feb 12, 2025 Madigan speaks at an Illinois Democratic County Chairs' Association brunch in Springfield in 2019. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Massey attorneys announce $10 million settlement in wrongful death case
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS - Wednesday would have been Sonya Massey's 37th birthday. Instead, it was the day her family's lawyers announced a $10 million settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit against ...
Feb 12, 2025 Attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the Massey family, speaks at a rally set up to call attention to the police killing of Sonya Massey.
NWS Meteorologist says snowfall lighter than expected for Peoria area
PEORIA Ill. - It seems the snow in Wednesday's forecast is lightening up. Meteorologist Kirk Huttle, with the National Weather Service. This weekend, the Peoria area could see additional snowfall, che...
Feb 12, 2025 Photo by WMBD Radio News T.J. Carson
Madigan guilty of bribery conspiracy as jury returns partial verdict
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Former Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history, has joined the list of Illinois political figu...
Feb 12, 2025 Michael Madigan and Mike McClain are pictured exiting the Dirksen Federal Courthouse the week of Jan. 27. A jury on Wednesday found Madigan guilty on 10 of 23 public corruption counts and not guilty on seven other counts. The jury deadlocked on six counts, all of which pertained to McClain. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
UPDATE: Trump says Putin and Zelenskiy want peace; phone calls kick off talks to end Ukraine war
UPDATED 2/13 4:46 A.M. WASHINGTON/MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -Donald Trump said both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed a desire for peace in separate ph...
Feb 12, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meet at Trump Tower in New York City, U.S., September 27, 2024. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
