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UPDATE: Suspect in robbery of Peoria Walgreens found in Mercer County
UPDATED 5:10 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The man wanted by Peoria Police for a robbery at a Walgreens last month has been taken into custody. Peoria Police say 41-year-old Jeffrey Holbrook was found in Aledo,...
Oct 11, 2024 (Peoria Police Department)
UPDATE: Millions in Florida still without power after Hurricane Milton
UPDATE: 7:47 A.M. FORT PIERCE, Florida (Reuters) -Millions of Floridians were still without electrical power on Friday, more than a day after Hurricane Milton roared across the midsection of the state...
Oct 11, 2024 An aerial view shows streets flooded after Hurricane Milton's landfall, in Siesta Key, Florida, U.S., October 10, 2024. REUTERS/Marco Bello
Blinken says concern in Asia about prospect of Middle East conflicts spreading
VIENTIANE, Laos (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday there was deep concern in Asia about the plight of people in Gaza and conflict in the Middle East and stressed Washing...
Oct 11, 2024 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a press conference during the 44th and 45th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summits in Vientiane, Laos, on October 11, 2024. TANG CHHIN SOTHY/Pool via REUTERS
Peoria Park District expresses "regret" for comments made about Juneteenth celebration at board meeting
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Park District says it is expressing "regret" over comments made during a discussion at its meeting last week. In a statement released Thursday, the park district says it was ...
Oct 10, 2024 (Peoria Park District)
Trump courts auto workers with car loan tax break, China crackdown
DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday proposed making interest on car loans tax-deductible and preventing Chinese automakers from selling vehicles in...
Oct 10, 2024 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., October 10, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial set for May 2025
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean "Diddy" Combs will stand trial on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges starting on May 5, 2025, a U.S. judge decided on Thursday during the hip-hop mogul's third c...
Oct 10, 2024 File photo: Sean "Diddy" Combs sits during a bail hearing in federal court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., September 18, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg/File photo
Bartonville donut shop announces closing
PEORIA Ill. - Owners of a local donut shop announce -- they'll soon be closing their doors, for good. "Big Mike's Donuts and Coffee" in Bartonville, shared a post on Facebook, Thursday, saying the sto...
Oct 10, 2024 (Big Mike's Donuts & Coffee)
Voters consider ballot questions on reproductive health, tax reform, election interference
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Lawmakers in Illinois are asking voters to weigh in on three hot-button issues on their ballots this year: election interference, income taxes and reproduct...
Oct 10, 2024 A sample ballot from Danville depicts the advisory questions that will appear on Illinois ballots this year. (Capitol News Illinois image)
Peoria woman pleads guilty in July death of infant son from apparent overdose
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria woman has pleaded guilty in connection to the apparent overdose death of her infant son from this summer. Court documents show that 19-year-old Zenai Wolford pleaded guilty Thu...
Oct 10, 2024 (Peoria County Jail)
Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert Kennedy, dies at 96
WASHINGTON, 2024 (Reuters) - Ethel Kennedy, a long-time human rights advocate who endured a series of tragedies that included the assassination of her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, and the untimely deat...
Oct 10, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Ethel Kennedy is helped to the church, at the funeral mass for Saoirse Kennedy Hill, granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, in Centerville, Massachusetts, U.S., August 5, 2019. David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
