Category Archives: Top Stories
U.S. has sent Israel thousands of 2,000-pound bombs since Oct. 7
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration has sent to Israel large numbers of munitions, including more than 10,000 highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs and thousands of Hellfire missiles, since...
Jun 29, 2024 Near Israel's border with Gaza, May 29, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Cancer victims lose bid to block proposed J&J talc bankruptcy
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday rejected a bid by a group of cancer victims to block Johnson & Johnson from pursuing a proposed bankruptcy settlement of tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging th...
Jun 29, 2024 Bottles of Johnson's baby powder are displayed in a store in New York City, U.S., January 22, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
Trump cites Supreme Court ruling in calling for Jan. 6 'hostages' to be freed
CHESAPEAKE, Virginia (Reuters) - Donald Trump said on Friday that his supporters prosecuted for their actions in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol should be freed, citing a Supreme Court ru...
Jun 29, 2024 Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a campaign event, in Chesapeake, Virginia, U.S. June 28, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
UPDATE: Biden acknowledges age, says he intends to defeat Trump after rough debate
UPDATED 1:12 P.M. RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Friday he intended to defeat Republican rival Donald Trump in the November presidential election, giving no sign that h...
Jun 29, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden gestures during a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., June 28, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
US Supreme Court declines to keep Trump ally Bannon out of prison
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday denied a request by Steve Bannon, an influential ally of former President Donald Trump, to keep him out of prison while he appeals his convictio...
Jun 28, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Steve Bannon, former advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, attends an event held by the national conservative political movement, ‘Turning Point’ in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., June, 15, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca cook/File Photo
Golf Learning Center and Peoria Zoo improvements approved by Peoria Park District board
PEORIA, Ill. - Multiple Peoria Park District facilities will be receiving improvements over the next year. The park district board approved the projects at their meeting on Wednesday. One of them is a...
Jun 28, 2024 (Peoria Park District)
Circuit court warns of phone scam in Peoria County regarding jury duty
PEORIA, Ill. - The Tenth Judicial Circuit Court is warning about a reported scam in Peoria County regarding missed jury duty. In a statement Friday, the court says there's been reports of people posin...
Jun 28, 2024 courtroom gavel
Pritzker calls SCOTUS emergency abortion ruling 'small respite' as state protections await his signature
Abortion remains legal as an emergency medical procedure in Idaho, for now, after a Thursday U.S. Supreme Court ruling, while a bill that would cement those protections in Illinois law awaits Gov. JB ...
Jun 28, 2024 Rep. Dagmara Avelar, D-Bolingbrook, speaks on the House floor during the 2024 spring legislative session. Avelar sponsored a bill that would codify protections for emergency abortions into state law in response to a Supreme Court case casting doubt on federal protections for the procedure. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Peoria woman sentenced for March 2023 stabbing death
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria woman has learned her fate after pleading guilty to the stabbing death of her boyfriend last year. Heaven Kruzan was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday. She could have f...
Jun 28, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
US Supreme Court curbs federal agency powers, overturning 1984 precedent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a major blow to federal regulatory power on Friday by overturning a 1984 precedent that had given deference to government agencies in interpreting la...
Jun 28, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2024. REUTERS/Will Dunham/File Photo
