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Illinois State Trooper struck by moving vehicle, pronounced dead
ILLINOIS - An Illinois State trooper is dead -- after being struck by a moving vehicle Monday night, on I-55 NORTH. It occurred just before 9:45pm -- near Channahon. Trooper Clay Carns was outside of ...
Dec 24, 2024 (Illinois State Police)
Trump previews combative foreign policy with threats to Panama, Greenland
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Donald Trump's surprise threat to retake control of the Panama Canal and his expansionist declaration that the United States should own Greenland signals that the ...
Dec 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump gestures at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., December 22, 2024. REUTERS/Cheney Orr/File Photo
Honda, Nissan aim to merge by 2026 in historic pivot
TOKYO (Reuters) - Honda and Nissan are in talks to merge by 2026, they said on Monday, a historic pivot for Japan's auto industry that underlines the threat Chinese EV makers now pose to the world's l...
Dec 23, 2024 Makoto Uchida, Director, Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO of Nissan Motor Corporation, and Toshihiro Mibe, Director, President and Representative Executive Officer of Honda, walk following a joint press conference on their merger talks, in Tokyo, Japan, December 23, 2024. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Teenager arrested in Peoria for allegedly possessing firearm
PEORIA Ill. - A teenager was arrested over the weekend in Peoria, for possessing a firearm under the legal age. On Saturday, just after 9:00pm, Peoria Police conducted a traffic stop in the 500 block ...
Dec 23, 2024
Mother and daughter die in fiery I-74 crash early Sunday morning near Brimfield
BRIMFIELD, Ill. - A mother and daughter from Ohio died in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 74 near Brimfield early Sunday morning. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says 41-year-old Leila Mohama...
Dec 23, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Nearly 300 new Illinois laws take effect in 2025
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year's Day, 293 new state laws will take effect. Those include some of the defining bills of...
Dec 23, 2024 Nearly 300 new laws will take effect in Illinois in 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
US House report finds Matt Gaetz paid thousands for sex and drugs, media reports say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House Ethics Committee has found that former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for drugs and sex, including with a 17-year-old gi...
Dec 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks ahead of a visit by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump during the AmericaFest 2024 conference sponsored by conservative group Turning Point in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. December 22, 2024. REUTERS/Cheney Orr/File Photo
Trump threatens to retake control of Panama Canal
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump threatened to reassert U.S. control over the Panama Canal on Sunday, accusing Panama of charging excessive rates to use the Central Ame...
Dec 23, 2024 Panama Canal, August 12, 2024. REUTERS/Enea Lebrun
Peoria gas prices fall slightly, state prices increase
PEORIA, Ill. - The price at the pump in the Peoria area has dipped slightly before the presents are unwrapped. GasBuddy reports an average of $3.14/g for unleaded on Monday, down 2.1 cents in the past...
Dec 23, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
UPDATE: Suspect in UnitedHealth CEO's killing pleads not guilty to murder, terrorism charges
UPDATED 8:40 A.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, pleaded not guilty on Monday to ...
Dec 23, 2024 Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson, walks on the day of an arraignment hearing, at New York Supreme Court in New York City, U.S. December 23, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
