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Trump says he will appeal historic conviction
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump said on Friday he would appeal the guilty verdict that made him the first U.S. president convicted of a crime, though he will have to wait until after his sentencing o...
May 31, 2024 New York City, U.S., May 31, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
UPDATE: Woman from Normal identified as victim in fatal Interstate 74 crash near East Peoria
UPDATED 3:38 P.M. EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A 32-year-old female from Normal has been identified as the victim in the fatal crash on Interstate 74 Friday morning near Pinecrest. Tazewell County Coroner Char...
May 31, 2024 Traffic on eastbound I-74 near the Washington Street exit was shut down Friday morning after a crash involving a semi and another vehicle. --(IDOT Camera)
US imposes visa restrictions on Chinese, Hong Kong officials, State Dept says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is imposing new visa restrictions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials over guilty verdicts in the National Security Law trial of pro-democracy organizers in Hong...
May 31, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. and Chinese flags are seen in this illustration taken, April 24, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Multi-vehicle crashes shut down eastbound I-74 Thursday night
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - Illinois State Police responded to a four-vehicle crash on I-74 near Morton Thursday night near Dee-Mac Road involving a semi and three cars. The accident happened around 8:52 ...
May 31, 2024 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Ban on 'captive audience' meetings, AI regulations among 466 bills to pass this session in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A bill banning what unions refer to as employer-sponsored "captive audience" meetings about religion and politics has cleared both chambers of the General A...
May 31, 2024 The Illinois Capitol dome is pictured through the trees in Springfield. Lawmakers adjourned their spring session this week after passing 466 bills this year. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Last two suspects wanted for Peoria Heights shooting incident arrested
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Police say all three suspects wanted for a shooting incident at a Peoria Heights gas station have now been arrested. The post on the Peoria Heights Police Department's Facebook ...
May 31, 2024 (Peoria Heights Police)
Peorian faces possible life sentence for 2021 fatal shooting
PEORIA, Ill. - A second man has been convicted for a 2021 shooting that took the life of a 17-year-old Peoria Manual High School student. A Peoria County jury deliberated around an hour to find 22-yea...
May 31, 2024 22-year-old Gary Irby Mugshot (Peoria County Jail)
Peoria Heights starts process to hire full-time firefighters
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - The Peoria Heights Fire Department is looking for a few good men and women. Chief Dan Decker says applications are now available for full-time firefighter positions within the f...
May 30, 2024 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Biden allows Ukraine to use US-supplied arms to strike inside Russia near Kharkiv area, say US officials
WASHINGTON/PRAGUE (Reuters) -President Joe Biden has quietly allowed Kyiv to fire U.S.-supplied weapons at targets inside Russia but only near the border with the area around Ukraine's northern city o...
May 30, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about student protests at U.S. universities, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, during brief remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 2, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
UPDATE: Jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts at hush money trial
UPDATED 4:56 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime on Thursday when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a pa...
May 30, 2024 Former President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan Criminal Court, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. Seth Wenig/Pool via REUTERS
