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Coroner identifies victim in fatal Chillicothe accident
PEORIA, Ill. - A Chillicothe woman has been identified as the victim in Friday afternoon's fatal crash in that city. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says an autopsy of Katherine "Katie" Wright, 44...
Will Stevenson Dec 12, 2022 (25 News)
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Michigan State's appeal in Title IX swimming case
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider how strictly to interpret the landmark Title IX civil rights law's protections for gender equality in college sports in a lawsuit chall...
Will Stevenson Dec 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The sun sets on the U.S. Supreme Court building after a stormy day in Washington, U.S., November 11, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis
U.S. Supreme Court takes up second Biden appeal in student debt plan fight
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear President Joe Biden's appeal of a judge's ruling that found his plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt unlawful, taking up the m...
Cooper Banks Dec 12, 2022
Peoria's Family Christmas Sing returns Tuesday
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria tradition is back. The Family Christmas Sing returns after a two-year hiatus at the Peoria Riverfront Museum Tuesday night. "It started in 1947, right after World War II, in t...
Julia Bradley Dec 12, 2022 (Peoria Riverfront Museum Facebook)
U.S. Congress creeps toward deadline to pass $1.5 trillion funding bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress faces a Friday deadline to fund the federal government, as Democrats and Republicans bicker over the details of an expected roughly $1.5 trillion funding bill ...
Julia Bradley Dec 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A Secret Service officer maintains a watch on the 22nd day of a partial government shutdown at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 12, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
A little present at the pump
PEORIA, Ill. -- According to AAA-Illinois, Monday's state average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas was $3.45. Nationally, the price was $3.26. In the Peoria-Pekin metro area, it's a little hi...
Julia Bradley Dec 12, 2022 Mike Mozart / CC
NASA's Orion capsule returns to Earth, capping Artemis I flight around moon
(Reuters) - NASA's Orion capsule barreled through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean on Sunday after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon, winding up the inaugural mission ...
Julia Bradley Dec 12, 2022 U.S. Navy divers attach winch cables to NASA's Orion capsule after being successfully secured by a NASA and U.S. Navy team, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, 11 December 2022. CAROLINE BREHMAN/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. says working on 'next steps' to secure release of Whelan from Russia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Biden administration officials will meet early Monday to discuss next steps in securing the release of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who was jailed in Russia in 2020 on spying...
Julia Bradley Dec 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan stands inside a defendants' cage during his verdict hearing in Moscow, Russia June 15, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
Lockerbie plane bombing suspect taken into U.S. custody
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the United States, Scottish...
Cooper Banks Dec 11, 2022 FILE PHOTO: File photo: Scottish crash investigators at the site of the Lockerbie Pan Am flight 103 bombing in 1988.. Greg Bos/REUTERS
Another PPD gun buy-back ends early with dozens of unwanted firearms collected
PEORIA, Ill. -- Another gun buy-back event in Peoria started and ended fast, with nearly another 90 firearms collected by local police. Peoria Police say people were already lined up by the time the b...
Cooper Banks Dec 11, 2022