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Republicans look to New Hampshire after Trump's landslide Iowa win
ATKINSON, New Hampshire (Reuters) -Donald Trump and his Republican opponents kicked off a week of campaigning in New Hampshire on Tuesday ahead of the state's nominating contest, with the ex-president...
Jan 17, 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on stage during a campaign rally ahead of the New Hampshire primary election, in Atkinson, New Hampshire, U.S. January 16, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Shakeup on board of directors for WTVP with mass resignations, including chairman. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - There's a major shakeup involving the Board of Directors of Peoria public television station WTVP. The Peoria Journal Star reports that 11 people, including Chairman Andrew Rand, submit...
Jan 16, 2024 (25 News)
ECHL returns to central Illinois with Bloomington franchise next season
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Professional hockey is coming back to Bloomington. The ECHL's Board of Governors announced on Tuesday the city will be the 30th franchise in the league, starting in the 2024-25 sea...
Jan 16, 2024 (Grossinger Motors Arena)
Teen charged with murder now indicted by county grand jury
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria teenager previously being charged as an adult for murder has now been indicted by a county grand jury. Court records indicate Byron Jarvis, 14, faces two counts of Murder, for ...
Jan 16, 2024 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Police say botched robbery attempt led to fatal shooting
UPDATED 5:24 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - We now know who the victim of Peoria's second homicide of this year was, and what happened that led to his death. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Marcus White...
Jan 16, 2024 (25 News)
EU states give nod to Red Sea mission to deter Houthis -diplomats
BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) -European Union member states have given initial backing to a naval mission to protect ships from attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militia in the Red Sea, European diplom...
Jan 16, 2024 FILE PHOTO: People walk on the beach as a container ship crosses the Gulf of Suez towards the Red Sea before entering the Suez Canal, in El Ain El Sokhna in Suez, east of Cairo, Egypt April 24, 2017. Picture taken April 24, 2017. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo
Donald Trump in court for second defamation trial after Iowa victory
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Fresh off a campaign victory in Iowa, Donald Trump sat in a New York courtroom on Tuesday to defend himself for a second time against charges that he defamed writer E. Jean Carroll...
Jan 16, 2024 E. Jean Carroll, former U.S. President Donald Trump rape accuser, arrives at Manhattan Federal Court for the continuation of the civil case, in New York City, U.S., May 9, 2023. REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado/ File Photo
Peoria Riverfront Museum dedicates Richard Pryor portrait
PEORIA, Ill. - Something that's long overdue. That's how Peoria Riverfront Museum Executive Director John Morris describes the museum-commissioned portrait of late comedian and Peoria native Richard P...
Jan 16, 2024 A portrait of Richard Pryor was dedicated Tuesday at the place that commissioned it, the Peoria Riverfront Museum. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: All four involved in Mackinaw murder-for-hire plot in October of 2021 plead guilty and receive prison terms
UPDATED 4:04 P.M. MACKINAW, Ill. - All four people involved in a murder-for-hire plot in Mackinaw in October of 2021 have all pleaded guilty at a review hearing Tuesday for their roles in it. The plot...
Jan 16, 2024 (25 News October 2021)
UPDATE: U.S. attacks Houthi anti-ship missiles, vessel hit in Red Sea
UPDATED 11:25 A.M. WASHINGTON/DAVOS (Reuters) -The U.S. military carried out a new strike in Yemen on Tuesday against anti-ship ballistic missiles in a Houthi-controlled part of the country as a missi...
Jan 16, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Container ships sail across the Gulf of Suez towards the Red Sea before entering the Suez Canal, in El Ain El Sokhna in Suez, east of Cairo, Egypt, March 17, 2018. Picture taken March 17, 2018. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo
