Category Archives: Top Stories
AMC Theatres announces record-breaking Thanksgiving
PEORIA Ill. - A nation-wide movie theater chain announces record-breaking attendance numbers, over the Thanksgiving Holiday period. Representatives of AMC Theatres tell us they've seen several company...
Dec 05, 2024 (Courtesy of AMC Theatres)
Illinois Commerce Commission makes decision on Illinois American Water general rate increase
PEORIA Ill. - The Illinois Commerce Commission cut portions of Illinois American Water's rate increase request for water and sewer services, Thursday. The decision from the ICC reduces Illinois Americ...
Dec 05, 2024 Illinois American Water
Magnitude 7 earthquake strikes off California coast
(Reuters) -A magnitude 7 earthquake hit off the northern California coast on Thursday, prompting a tsunami warning for a large stretch of the California and Oregon coasts, officials said. The tsunami ...
Dec 05, 2024 The location of 7.0 magnitude earthquake 39 miles off the coast of California. via USGS
Amnesty report says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Amnesty International accused the state of Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza war in a report published on Thursday, an allegation Israel angrily deni...
Dec 05, 2024 Palestinians search for belongings at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip December 4, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
Two dead in Peoria Heights house fire
UPDATED: 4:55PM PEORIA HEIGHTS Ill. - Two people are dead, due to a house fire in Peoria Heights early this afternoon, according to 25News and Peoria County Coroner, Jamie Harwood. Peoria Heights Fire...
Dec 05, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Manhunt underway in New York for killer of UnitedHealth's Brian Thompson
NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City police were searching on Thursday for the man who killed UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson in a brazen attack outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel before fleeing int...
Dec 05, 2024 People walk next to a poster outside the Hilton hotel near the scene where the CEO of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson was shot dead in Midtown Manhattan, in New York City, U.S., December 5, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Republican Senator Ernst does not yet back Trump Pentagon pick Hegseth
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Joni Ernst, a combat veteran and sexual assault survivor, said on Thursday she is not yet ready to back Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense, d...
Dec 05, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) speaks with reporters following the Senate Republicans weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 6, 2024. REUTERS/Bonnie Cash/File Photo
No injuries after Thursday morning fire in Deer Creek
DEER CREEK, Ill. - A shed was destroyed after a fire Thursday morning in Deer Creek. 25 News reports the fire was reported at around 8:30 A.M. on Lakeland Road. Morton Fire says the homeowner was home...
Dec 05, 2024 (25 News)
Jurors see list of Madigan's job recommendations given to newly elected Gov. Pritzker
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - In the weeks following now-Gov. JB Pritzker's November 2018 victory over one-term Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan busied...
Dec 05, 2024 Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s handwritten notes from a meeting with Governor-elect JB Pritzker in December 2018. The notes were shown as evidence in the former speaker’s corruption trial Wednesday, six years to the day after he wrote them. (Screenshot from court documents)
Amnesty report says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Amnesty International accused the state of Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza war in a report published on Thursday, an allegation Israel angrily deni...
Dec 05, 2024 Palestinians search for belongings at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip December 4, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
