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State watchdog uncovers at least $7.2M in PPP fraud by state employees
CHICAGO - A state watchdog has identified at least $7.2 million in fraudulent claims and more than 275 instances of misconduct by state employees accused of bilking a federal program designed to help ...
Nov 26, 2024 Documents from OEIG cases. (Image by Amalia Huot-Marchand for Capitol News Illinois)
Two injured after crash involving train in Peoria County
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - Two people suffered non-life threatening injuries after a train versus vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon. Illinois State Police say the crash happened just after 12:30 P.M. at Illi...
Nov 26, 2024 Midwest Communications
Netanyahu says he is ready to implement Israel-Lebanon ceasefire
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he was ready to implement a ceasefire deal with Lebanon and would respond forcefully to any violation by Hezbollah...
Nov 26, 2024 Israeli soldiers visit the site where a house was damaged, after Israel's military reported projectiles crossing over to Israel from Lebanon, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, November 26, 2024. REUTERS/Ayal Margolin
'You shouldn't be talking like that': Madigan scolded alderman-turned-FBI mole for bringing up 'quid pro quo'
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Then-Chicago Ald. Danny Solis had already been cooperating with the FBI for a little more than a year in June 2017 when he received an unexpected voicemail from...
Nov 26, 2024 Then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan captured in a video Chicago Ald. Danny Solis secretly recorded at the direction of the FBI at the speaker’s law offices in July 2017. (Video screenshot from government exhibits shown Nov. 25, 2024)
Russia strikes Ukraine's critical infrastructure in war's largest drone attack
KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces staged their largest ever drone attack on Ukraine overnight, cutting power to much of the western region of Ternopil and damaging residential buildings in Kyiv region, U...
Nov 26, 2024 People take shelter inside a metro station during a Russian missile attack, amid Russia's attacks on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 26, 2024. REUTERS/Alina Smutko
Rivian gets $6.6 billion conditional loan approval to build Georgia EV plant
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Rivian said on Monday it has received conditional approval for a loan of up to $6.6 billion from the U.S. Department of Energy to build the electric vehicle maker's production...
Nov 26, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Electric truck maker Rivian unveils R2 SUV during an event in Laguna Beach, California, U.S. March 7, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Judge tosses Trump 2020 election case after prosecutors' request
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed the federal criminal case accusing Donald Trump of attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat after prosecutors moved to drop that prosecuti...
Nov 26, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith are seen in a combination of file photos in Washington, U.S., in 2023. REUTERS/Tasos Katopodis, Kevin Wurm/File Photo
Tips for holiday travelers as new U.S. consumer protections kick in
NEW YORK - If you thought last year's holiday travel was insane, well, buckle your seatbelt. AAA projects 79.9 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from their home over Thanksgiving, an incr...
Nov 26, 2024 FILE PHOTO: People walk to their flight gates ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. November 22, 2023. REUTERS/Vincent Alban/File Photo
Plans for downtown Peoria hotel and apartments scrapped
PEORIA, Ill. - The empty Sully's and Illinois Central College buildings off SW Adams Street in downtown Peoria will stay empty after plans to redevelop the block fizzled out. City leaders say the plan...
Nov 26, 2024 (25 News)
Israel expected to approve ceasefire with Hezbollah, Israeli official says
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Israel looks set to approve a U.S. plan for a ceasefire with Lebanon's Hezbollah on Tuesday, a senior Israeli official said, clearing the way for an end to the conflict tha...
Nov 26, 2024 Civil defence members clear a road at a damaged site, in the aftermath of Israeli strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Lebanon November 26, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Yassin
