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Peoria Rescue Ministries takes on new name and focus
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Rescue Ministries is now PATHWAY Ministries. The organization's Executive Director John Rocke says the new name aligns with a focus on long-term change, not just emergency servic...
Jan 26, 2024 Peoria Rescue Mission is changing its name to PATHWAY Ministries. This brochure shows the mission's new logo and message. (1470/100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Trump, Carroll press cases in defamation trial, jury begins deliberations
UPDATED 3:10 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump should pay the writer E. Jean Carroll "dearly" for defaming her and denying he raped her, likely in the tens of millions of dollars, Carroll's lawyer...
Jan 26, 2024 Former U.S. President Donald Trump departs for his second civil trial after E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her decades ago, outside a Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., January 26, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
NASA's historic Mars helicopter Ingenuity grounded for good after 72 flights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA said on Thursday its Mars robot helicopter Ingenuity, the first vehicle to achieve powered, controlled flight on another world, has been grounded for good after flying dozen...
Jan 26, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies over Mars in an undated illustration provided by Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Trump, Carroll to wrap up defamation trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The writer E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against Donald Trump is likely headed for a jury on Friday, after lawyers for both sides offer final arguments on how much Trump damaged Carro...
Jan 26, 2024 E. Jean Carroll walks outside Manhattan Federal Court on the day of the second civil trial, after she accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago, in New York City, U.S., January 25, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid
Loyal customer gives Schooners employees a $30K tip.
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. (25 News) - A long-time customer showed incredible generosity to the employees of Schooners in Peoria Heights. The anonymous customer gave each of the 30 employees a $1,000 check ...
Jan 26, 2024 Schooner's sign outside the restaurant on War Memorial Drive in Peoria Heights. (25 News)
Alabama completes first execution using nitrogen gas asphyxiation
(Reuters) - Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said prison officials had killed Kenneth Smith, a convicted murderer, on Thursday evening, completing the first execution using asphyxiation by nitrogen gas, whic...
Jan 26, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Kenneth Eugene Smith, convicted for a murder-for-hire committed in 1988, and who is scheduled to be executed in the U.S. state of Alabama by asphyxiation using pure nitrogen, poses for an undated booking photo at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama, U.S. Alabama Department of Corrections/Handout via REUTERS
Methodist celebrates advanced lung cancer screening technology
PEORIA, Ill. - It's been used by a pulmonologist at Carle Health Methodist Hospital at least 100 times since it was first installed two years ago. It's a first-in-the area device called ION Robotic As...
Jan 25, 2024 ION Robotic Assisted Bronchoscopy -- a form of lung cancer screening -- is demonstrated Thursday, January 25, at Carle Health Methodist Hospital. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Former Trump adviser Navarro gets four months for contempt of Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced on Thursday to four months in prison for contempt of Congress, with a judge scolding him for defying a s...
Jan 25, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Peter Navarro, adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump, faces reporters after he was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, following his trial at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., September 7, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
In Wisconsin, Biden talks $5 billion bridge, highway spending
SUPERIOR, Wisconsin (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden is pushing $5 billion into transportation projects around the country during a visit Thursday to Wisconsin, hoping his cheery economic pitch tak...
Jan 25, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to United Auto Workers members at the UAW's Community Action Program (CAP) legislative conference in Washington, U.S., January 24, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Work begins on another Warehouse District living complex
PEORIA, Ill. - More living options are being worked on in Peoria's Warehouse District. Work has begun to turn the former Chic Manufacturing building near Adams and Maple into 22 luxury condos with bal...
Jan 25, 2024 (25 News)
