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UPDATE: Teenage girl suffers leg injury after reported shooting in Peoria
UPDATED 5:23 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A teenage girl suffered non-life-threatening injuries after reportedly being shot early Thursday morning in South Peoria. Peoria Police say 56 shots were fired in four...
Jun 13, 2024
With high temperatures over the next few days, Peoria opens Cooling Centers
PEORIA, Ill. - With temperatures in the 90s over the next few days, and heat indices even higher, the City of Peoria is opening Cooling Centers for people who need to get out of the excessive heat. Th...
Jun 13, 2024 rfphoto / Depositphotos.com
US producer prices unexpectedly fall in May
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. producer prices unexpectedly fell in May amid lower energy costs, another indication that inflation was subsiding after surging in the first quarter. The producer price ind...
Jun 13, 2024 People buy presents around Times Square, New York, U.S., December 25, 2023. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
Microsoft president to testify before House panel over security lapses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft President Brad Smith will testify before a House of Representatives panel on homeland security on Thursday, fielding questions about the company's security practices a...
Jun 13, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks during a Reuters Newsmaker event in New York, U.S., September 13, 2019. REUTERS/Gary He/File Photo
Biden will urge G7 leaders to push Hamas to back ceasefire deal - White House's Sullivan
BARI, Italy (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will urge fellow leaders of Group of Seven nations to support ceasefire negotiations and encourage Hamas to accept a proposal backed by Israel, White H...
Jun 13, 2024 Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, U.S. President Joe Biden, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and President of the European Council Charles Michel pose for a family photo on the first day of the G7 summit at the Borgo Egnazia resort, in Savelletri, Italy June 13, 2024. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
Collins: Threat of severe storms Thursday evening
PEORIA, Ill. - There is a threat of severe storms for the Peoria area Thursday evening. 25 News First Alert Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins says a line of severe thunderstorms will approach the Illi...
Jun 13, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Elections board urged to dismiss complaint that Bailey illegally coordinated in 2022 campaign
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A hearing officer is recommending the Illinois State Board of Elections dismiss a complaint that alleged conservative radio host and political operative Dan...
Jun 12, 2024 Former GOP governor candidate Darren Bailey (right) and conservative political operative Dan Proft are pictured during an April hearing before the Illinois State Board of Elections. A hearing officer has recommended the board dismiss a complaint that the pair illegally colluded in the 2022 election. (Capitol News Illinois photos by Andrew Adams)
Republican-controlled US House votes to hold attorney general in contempt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for refusing to turn over audio recordings of a sp...
Jun 12, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) questions U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland during a House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice” in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden/File Photo
Biden administration touts quick Baltimore channel reopening
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This week's reopening of Baltimore's main shipping channel - less than three months after the Key Bridge collapse - was due to expertise gained from a COVID-era task force, a hi...
Jun 12, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A small boat cruises past the clean-up operations at the Francis Scott Key Bridge as the main shipping channel prepares to fully reopen, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., June 10, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Communities, commission push Pritzker admin for more prison plan details
JOLIET, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Jimmy Soto spent more than 42 years wrongfully imprisoned in Illinois Department of Corrections facilities. In 2020, he was moved to the "F-House" at Stateville ...
Jun 12, 2024 Jimmy Soto, who spent more than 42 years wrongfully incarcerated in state prisons, speaks to the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability at a public hearing in Joliet Tuesday. Soto said he recently discovered the drinking water at Stateville contaminated his blood with lead, causing him to be prediabetic. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Dilpreet Raju)
