Category Archives: Top Stories
US Rep. Cuellar hit with bribery charges tied to Azerbaijan, Mexican bank
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted for allegedly accepting close to $600,000 in bribes in two schemes meant to benefit an Azerbaijani state-owned energ...
May 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) questions Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on the DHS budget request on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2024. REUTERS/Michael A. McCoy/File Photo
Democrats flex muscle to kick off final month of session as revenues remain on track
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - With about three weeks to go before the Illinois General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn its spring legislative session, supermajority Democrats showed the...
May 03, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at the Illinois Retail Merchants Association and Illinois Manufacturers’ Association business day in Springfield on Wednesday, May 1. At another event this week, he said “I feel pretty good about where we are” when asked about the state’s April revenue performance. (Capitol News Illinois phot by Jerry Nowicki)
Biden expands health insurance access for DACA immigrants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden's administration will allow certain immigrants illegally brought to the U.S. as children access to federally run health insurance, the White House said on Fri...
May 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Immigrants and activists hold placards in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy ahead of a hearing on a revised version of the DACA program outside a federal courthouse in Houston, Texas, U.S., June 1, 2023. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Woman arrested after Thursday afternoon stabbing in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A woman was arrested after a stabbing incident at a business in Peoria Thursday afternoon. Peoria Police responded just before 5:15 P.M. to the business in the area of Sheridan and Ridg...
May 03, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Law enforcement community honors fallen officers at Illinois Capitol
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Six fallen police officers were honored at an annual memorial service outside the State Capitol Thursday. The Illinois Police Officers Memorial occurs annua...
May 03, 2024 Uniformed officers honor the families of their fallen colleagues during the annual Police Officers Memorial on the Illinois State Capitol grounds Thursday in Springfield. Six fallen officers were honored at the ceremony. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
UPDATE: Former Trump aide Hope Hicks testifies he told her to deny Stormy Daniels affair
UPDATED 3:24 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Hope Hicks, a former top aide to Donald Trump, testified on Friday that he told her in the final days of the 2016 presidential election to deny that he had a sexu...
May 03, 2024 Hope Hicks, a former top aide to former U.S. President Donald Trump, reacts while being cross examined by defense lawyer Emil Bove during Trump's criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. May 3, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Washington alderman to run for mayor
WASHINGTON, Ill. - A Washington alderman plans to announce on Friday his intentions to run for mayor, while current Mayor Gary Manier is still undecided whether he wants another term. Mike Brownfield ...
May 03, 2024 (City of Washington)
Resident displaced by fire overnight in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called early Friday morning to a home on N. Indiana on reports of smoke in the basement. Fire Battalion Chief Tom Stimeling says just after 12:30 a.m., crews fo...
May 03, 2024 D4E / CC
Fresh chaos, arrests on US college campuses as police flatten camp at UCLA
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Police forcibly removed scores of defiant pro-Palestinian protesters at several colleges on Thursday, including taking down an encampment at UCLA in a jarring scene that undersc...
May 03, 2024 Police officers scuffle with protesters trying to block vehicles taking detained students, who had been occupying the Portland State University Library building, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Portland, Oregon, U.S., May 2, 2024. REUTERS/Jan Sonnenmair
Trump trial hears Michael Cohen was 'despondent' he was denied a government post
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's longtime fixer Michael Cohen was upset not to be offered a top job in Trump's administration after the Republican businessman-turned-politician won the 2016 preside...
May 03, 2024 Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings in his criminal trial at the New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York, Thursday, May, 2, 2024. Doug Mills/Pool via REUTERS
