Category Archives: Top Stories
Drought conditions continue across central Illinois
PEORIA, Ill. - Drought conditions continue to persist across central Illinois. The latest update released Thursday shows abnormally dry conditions in all of Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford, Marshall, and S...
Oct 03, 2024 (National Weather Service)
NATO chief Rutte visits Ukraine in first trip in new role
KYIV (Reuters) - NATO chief Mark Rutte discussed the war in Ukraine and Kyiv's "victory plan" with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday after arriving in the Ukrainian capital on his first offici...
Oct 03, 2024 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte attend a press conference, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
US weekly jobless claims rise moderately
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits rose marginally last week, but Hurricane Helene's rampage in the U.S. Southeast and strikes at Boeing a...
Oct 03, 2024 An employee hiring sign with a QR code is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Gaza and a ceasefire slip out of focus as Lebanon conflict rages
CAIRO (Reuters) - Palestinians fear the crisis in Lebanon is diverting the world's attention from Gaza, where Israeli strikes killed dozens more people this week, and diminishing already dim prospects...
Oct 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Palestinians inspect the site of Israeli strikes on houses, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 2, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo
Ship queue grows at US ports as dockworker strike enters third day
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Long lines of container ships queued up outside major U.S. ports on Thursday as the biggest dockworker strike in nearly half a century entered its third day preventing unloading a...
Oct 03, 2024 Containers are stacked at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal (PMT), as port workers from the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) participate in a strike, in Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S., October 2, 2024. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
UPDATE: Victim in fatal South Peoria house fire identified
UPDATED 5:35 P.M. - An 81-year-old man was the victim in a fire Wednesday night in South Peoria. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Raul Rosas was pronounced dead at the scene of the fire just b...
Oct 03, 2024 Midwest Communications
Pritzker touts Illinois' economic development at data center groundbreaking
AURORA, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A Texas-based company broke ground on a new data center in Aurora on Wednesday, the latest in a boom of data storage facility developments in northern Illinois. ...
Oct 02, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker pictured earlier this year (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Thousands in North Carolina still without water days after Helene's destruction
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of North Carolina residents remained without running water on Wednesday, six days after Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida and carved a destru...
Oct 02, 2024 Sabra English pauses to survey a mud-strewn living room in her father's badly flooded home following Hurricane Helene, in Barnardsville, North Carolina, U.S. October 2, 2024. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake
US prosecutors show new details of Trump's bid to overturn election loss
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors said Donald Trump was acting outside the scope of his duties as president when he pressured state officials and then-Vice President Mike Pence to try to overturn...
Oct 02, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to hold a campaign rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S., September 21, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Arrests made in connection to fatal shooting of child at Peoria apartment complex
PEORIA, Ill. - Two people have been arrested in connection to the Sunday night fatal shooting of a 10-year-old in Peoria. Peoria Police say 33-year-old Maurice Sargent was identified as the suspect in...
Oct 02, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
