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Total non-farm jobs in Peoria area flat in December, unemployment rate rises
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State officials are touting an increased number of jobs in Illinois in the year-over-year period ending in December. That wasn't in the case in Peoria. Federal data supplied throug...
Jan 25, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Man pleads not guilty to early-January murder
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has pleaded not guilty for allegedly committing the city's first homicide of the year. Court records indicate David Stone, 39, made the plea at an arraignment hearing Thurs...
Jan 25, 2024 David Stone (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
State education board to seek $653M increase in upcoming budget year
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois State Board of Education endorsed a budget request Wednesday that includes a $653 million increase in funding for PreK-12 public schools. It's ...
Jan 25, 2024 State Superintendent of Education Tony Sanders, left, and Illinois State Board of Education Chair Stephen Isoye speak at the board’s regular meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 24. The state board approved its fiscal year 2025 budget request to the General Assembly, which asks for an increase of more than $650 million from the current fiscal year. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
UK and US sanction senior Houthis over Red Sea shipping attacks
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Britain and the United States on Thursday said they had imposed coordinated sanctions on four key Houthi figures for their roles in supporting or directing attacks on comm...
Jan 25, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A cargo ship boat model is seen in front of "Red Sea" words in this illustration taken January 9, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Girlfriend of Joliet murder suspect arrested. Here's what we know
JOLIET, Ill. - The girlfriend of the man who murdered seven of his family members in Joliet earlier this week has been arrested. Fox News says 21-year-old Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton has been charged ...
Jan 25, 2024 Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Will County Jail)
UPDATE: Trump denies Carroll's sexual abuse claims as defamation trial nears end
UPDATED 2:57 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's testimony in the writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation case ended almost immediately after it began, as the former U.S. president stood by his earli...
Jan 25, 2024 Former U.S. President Donald Trump watches footage of himself giving a video deposition during the second civil trial where Carroll accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago, at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City, U.S., January 25, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Feud over southern border continues between White House and Texas Governor Abbott
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Joe Biden is facing pushback from Texas for his southern border policy. The Biden administration gave Texas a deadline of Friday to allow federal agents back into a 2.5 mi...
Jan 25, 2024 An Army National Guard soldier patrols the banks of the Rio Grande at a crossing point for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, U.S., January 8, 2024. Jay Janner/American-Statesman/USA Today Network/ File Photo
State reports COVID-19 outbreak at veterans home
(Capitol News Illinois) - Health experts warn respiratory illnesses are still circulating, even as numbers trend down after a brief post-holiday surge. Outbreaks of COVID-19, Flu, and RSV have been re...
Jan 24, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Bradley University receives grant funding for building improvements on campus
PEORIA, Ill. - Bradley University is receiving grant money for improvements to two buildings on campus. The university announced on Wednesday it has received more than $14.8 million in capital grants ...
Jan 24, 2024 (File-25 News)
Exclusive-US, Iraq to initiate talks on end of US-led military coalition
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -The United States and Iraq are set to initiate talks on the end of a U.S.-led international military coalition in Iraq and how to replace it with bilateral relations, four sources s...
Jan 24, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein attends a trilateral meeting with counterparts of Egypt and Jordan, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo, Egypt, August 15, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
