Category Archives: Top Stories
Olympics-IBA to award prize money to Italy's Carini despite loss to Algeria's Khelif
PARIS (Reuters) -The International Boxing Association (IBA) will award Italy's Angela Carini, who lost her welterweight round-of-16 bout against Algerian Imane Khelif at the Paris Olympics in 46 secon...
Aug 02, 2024 Paris 2024 Olympics - Boxing - Women's 66kg - Prelims - Round of 16 - North Paris Arena, Villepinte, France - August 01, 2024. Imane Khelif of Algeria and Angela Carini of Italy in action. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes
Pentagon chief revokes plea deals with three Sept. 11 suspects
(Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday revoked plea deals agreed to earlier this week with the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two acc...
Aug 02, 2024 U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin inspects honor guards during his arrival at Camp Aguinaldo, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 30, 2024. REUTERS/Lisa Marie David
Man sentenced to life in prison for role in 2021 murder of Manual High School student
PEORIA, Ill. - A man will spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in the shooting death of a Manual High School student three years ago. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 22-y...
Aug 02, 2024 22-year-old Gary Irby Mugshot (Peoria County Jail)
Trump 2020 election subversion case to resume following immunity ruling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. criminal case accusing Donald Trump of illegally trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat resumed after a nearly eight-month pause on Friday, with the judge left to ...
Aug 02, 2024 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 31, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Peoria man sentenced after pleading guilty to daughter's death
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man will spend 70 years in prison after pleading guilty to the death of his daughter two years ago. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 27-year-old Shamari William...
Aug 02, 2024 courtroom gavel
One person dead after Marquette Heights house fire
MARQUETTE HEIGHTS, Ill. - One person is dead after a house fire in Marquette Heights Friday morning. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley confirmed the fatality, but did not release any other inform...
Aug 02, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Man stabbed in Peoria Thursday night
PEORIA, Ill. -Police say a man was stabbed in the neck Thursday night in Peoria. Police Spokesperson Semone Roth says officers responded around 7:25 p.m. to the area of S. Livingston and Humboldt Stre...
Aug 02, 2024 (Midwest Communication)
US Secret Service chief says local police warned of gunman at Trump shooting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Secret Service's acting director said on Friday that local police in Pennsylvania warned that there was a man with a gun on a roof before the July 13 attempted assassina...
Aug 02, 2024 Acting Director of the U.S. Secret Service, Ronald L. Rowe, Jr. appears before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the attempted assassination of Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 30, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt
Pentagon tells Israel it will adjust US troops in Middle East
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has informed Israel about current and future changes to U.S. forces in the Middle East, the Pentagon said on Friday, amid threats from Iran a...
Aug 02, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrives at Camp Aguinaldo, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 30, 2024. REUTERS/Lisa Marie David/File Photo
In month since SCOTUS bribery decision, Madigan-related corruption cases forge ahead
Attorneys on both sides of the federal corruption case against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan didn't agree on much this past month, but they are aligned on one thing: they're prepared t...
Aug 02, 2024 Former House Speaker Michael Madigan exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Jan. 3. Attorneys for Madigan and those caught up in related corruption cases argue a U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing the federal bribery statute should result in the dismissal of charges or acquittal of convictions. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
