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LaHood endorses Donald Trump for president
PEORIA, Ill. - Republican Congressman Darrin LaHood, who now represents Illinois' 16th District, officially announced on Saturday that he has endorsed Donald Trump in the Republican primary for Presid...
Jan 13, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Snowfighters dealing with blowing and drifting snow following Friday's snowstorm
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Snowfighters spent most of the overnight plowing and treating the residential streets before returning to the main routes. Peoria Public Works Deputy Director Sie Maroon says blo...
Jan 13, 2024 Peoria snowplow on the streets following the first real snow storm of 2024. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD--TJ Carson)
Man pleads not guilty to shooting death of Peoria teen in Bloomington
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - The Georgia man accused of shooting and killing a Peoria teen at a house party in Bloomington is pleading not guilty. Tomiyale Anderson, 20, has made that plea in McLean County Cir...
Jan 12, 2024 Tomiyale Anderson (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/McLean County Jail)
Invoking Jesus, Republicans brace for Iowa caucuses in record cold
URBANDALE/DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Even Jesus could lend a hand when Iowans face frigid weather conditions to pick their Republican presidential nominee on Monday, set to be a record cold caucus n...
Jan 12, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis leaves a campaign event in Ankeny, Iowa, U.S., January 12, 2024. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Blizzard strikes US Midwest, cancelling flights and disrupting presidential campaign
CHICAGO (Reuters) -Tens of millions of Americans were in the pathway of dangerous and damaging weather conditions as snowstorms moved across the Northwest and Midwest, flooding threatened the East Coa...
Jan 12, 2024 Workers remove snow from the sidewalk after a blizzard left several inches of snow in Ankeny, Iowa, U.S., January 12, 2024. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer
More migrants arrive in Chicago as city tries to shelter them during frigid winter blast
CHICAGO, Ill. - Frigid temperatures is not stopping the flow of migrants from the United States southern border into Chicago. FOX News reports that, as of Wednesday night, 324 people are being housed ...
Jan 12, 2024 Harald Deischinger / CC
US FAA to boost oversight of Boeing, sees more manufacturing issues
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it will intensify oversight of Boeing after a panel broke off a new jet in mid-flight, and the agency's chief Mike Whitak...
Jan 12, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX, which was forced to make an emergency landing with a gap in the fuselage, is seen during its investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Portland, Oregon, U.S. January 7, 2024. NTSB/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
UPDATE: Biden says confident in Pentagon's Austin despite judgment lapse
UPDATED 3:48 P.M. EMMAUS, Pa. (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday that he has confidence in Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin despite what Biden agreed was a lapse in judgment by the Pent...
Jan 12, 2024 U.S. President-elect Joe Biden announces nominees and appointees to his presidential administration during a news conference at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., December 11, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar/ File Photo
US to seek death penalty against white supremacist Buffalo shooter
NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors will seek the death penalty against the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in 2022, marking the first time the Bide...
Jan 12, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Tops gunman Payton Gendron is escorted out of the courtroom after he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for domestic terrorism motivated by hate and each of the 10 counts of first-degree murder by Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan, in Buffalo, NY, U.S., February 15, 2023. Derek Gee/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Illinois proposal calls for expanding vote-by-mail
URBANA, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - As the 2024 election season draws near, voters in Illinois will once again choose whether they want to cast their ballots in person or by mail. But one lawmaker ...
Jan 12, 2024 Democratic state Reps. Maurice West, of Rockford, and Carol Ammons, of Urbana, discuss Ammons’ proposal to expand voting by mail in Illinois during a meeting Wednesday of the House Ethics and Elections Committee. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
