Category Archives: Top Stories
Netflix back up for most users in US after outage, Downdetector shows
(Reuters) -Video streaming platform Netflix was back up on Saturday after an outage that lasted roughly six hours in the United States, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downd...
Nov 16, 2024 Netflix logo is pictured at a premiere for the 4th and final season of the television series "The Umbrella Academy" in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 5, 2024. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo
G7 confirms pledge to impose severe costs on Russia for Ukraine war
ROME (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies on Saturday reiterated a pledge to keep imposing severe costs on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, through sanctions, export con...
Nov 16, 2024 A general view of an empty room with the round table for a working session at a G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting, at the City Hall in Muenster, Germany November 4, 2022. Bernd Lauter/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Illinois Democrats brace for second Trump administration amid return to Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - During Donald Trump's first term as president, Gov. JB Pritzker and Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly spent much of their time enacting laws and po...
Nov 15, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks to reporters this week, taking several questions about what type of policies he will propose to address the impending administration of President Donald Trump. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Trump picks North Dakota Governor Burgum for interior secretary
PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday that North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, a wealthy former software company executive, will be his pick for interior secreta...
Nov 15, 2024 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as Doug Burgum, Governor of North Dakota, and House Speaker Mike Johnson look on, on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 17, 2024. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo
Peoria cuts ribbon on completed Glen Avenue reconstruction project
PEORIA, Ill. - For the second time this week, the city of Peoria has cut the ribbon on a completed road construction project. At Concordia Lutheran School on Friday, city leaders officially completed ...
Nov 15, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties drought conditions
PEORIA Ill. - Despite all the rain we've recently seen locally, Peoria -- Tazewell -- and Woodford counties are still in the midst of a moderate drought to abnormally dry conditions. According to the ...
Nov 15, 2024 (NOAA/National Weather Service/USDA)
'Make it a federal court suit': Jurors hear wiretap of McClain describing subcontracts alleged to be bribes
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - For nearly eight years, former Chicago Ald. Frank Olivo had a monthly ritual. The retired politician would sign an invoice for $4,000 - always identical but for the d...
Nov 15, 2024 Fidel Marquez, a former Commonwealth Edison executive-turned-cooperating witness, leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse with his attorney on Tuesday, Nov. 12, after his fifth day of testimony in the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Trump picks ex-congressman Doug Collins for veterans affairs secretary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he intends to nominate former Representative Doug Collins for secretary of veterans affairs. "We must take care of our brave me...
Nov 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) attends a campaign event for Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump in Macon, Georgia U.S., November 3, 2024. REUTERS/Megan Varner/File Photo
Peoria-based organization continues sending ambulances to war-torn Ukraine
PEORIA, Ill. - To date, 83 ambulances, fire trucks and SUVs have been sent to Ukraine through donations to U.S. Ambulances for Ukraine. The organization is headed up by OSF HealthCare's VP of Governme...
Nov 15, 2024 (Courtesy of US Ambulances for Ukraine.org)
Judge weighs whether to acquit ex-AT&T boss after hung jury in corruption case
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Paul La Schiazza, the ex-boss of AT&T Illinois accused of bribing a powerful politician, could be a free man next month. After three hours of oral arguments on Th...
Nov 15, 2024 Former AT&T Illinois President Paul La Schiazza exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse during his September trial that ended in a mistrial. A jury eventually deadlocked in deciding whether La Schiazza was guilty of bribing longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan via a no-work contract for the speaker’s political ally. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
