Category Archives: Top Stories
Multiple promotions within Morton Police Department includes new Chief of Police
MORTON, Ill. - Multiple promotions have occurred in the Morton Police Department, one of which is a new police chief. Shawn Darche was sworn in as the new Chief of Police Tuesday. He was appointed to ...
Jan 04, 2024 (Morton Police Department)
UPDATE: Sixth-grade student killed in Iowa school shooting, sheriff says
UPDATED 3:44 P.M. PERRY, Iowa (Reuters) -A sixth-grader was killed on Thursday morning and five other people wounded when a 17-year-old student opened fire at an Iowa school on the first day of classe...
Jan 04, 2024 Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante speaks to the media following a shooting at Perry High School in Perry, Iowa, U.S., January 4, 2024. REUTERS/Scott Morgan
US weekly jobless claims fall more than expected
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, suggesting that labor market conditions remain fairly tight. Initial claim...
Jan 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Signage for a job fair is seen on 5th Avenue after the release of the jobs report in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
UPDATE: U.S. strike kills militia leader blamed for Iraq attacks - U.S. official
Updated 9:18 a.m. BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military carried out a retaliatory strike in Baghdad on Thursday that killed a militia leader it blames for recent attacks on U.S. personnel, ...
Jan 04, 2024 Members of an Iraqi Shi'ite armed group stand guard after an attack by a drone strike on an Iran-backed militia headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq January 4, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
Epstein accuser says Prince Andrew groped her, documents show
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A woman who has said she was victimized by late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Britain's Prince Andrew put his hand on her breast at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse in 2001, accor...
Jan 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Israel focuses assault on southern Gaza amid concern over spread of war
BEIRUT/CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli shelling killed 14 Palestinians on Thursday in Khan Younis in a southern coastal area of the Gaza Strip packed with people who had fled attacks in other parts of t...
Jan 04, 2024 Israeli army tanks manoeuvre near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Israel, January 3, 2024. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
Madigan trial delayed until October for SCOTUS review of bribery statute
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan won't be spending his 82nd birthday in a federal courtroom this spring after a judge on Wednesday granted his requ...
Jan 03, 2024 Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago Wednesday afternoon. A judge granted Madigan’s motion to delay his bribery and racketeering trial from April 1 to October 8, after the U.S. Supreme Court’s review of another bribery case. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
US Justice Dept sues Texas over immigration law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it filed a lawsuit against Texas to challenge an immigration law called Senate Bill 4, which the DOJ described as "clearly unconsti...
Jan 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Migrants, most from Venezuela, stand near razor wire while surrendering to authorities after wading across the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico, in Eagle Pass, Texas, U.S. October 5, 2023. REUTERS/Adrees Latif/File Photo
Governor names new DCFS director
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The troubled state agency charged with the protection of abused and neglected children will have new leadership in the new year. Gov. JB Pritzker announced ...
Jan 03, 2024 Heidi Mueller, who previously served as the state’s director of the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice, was named director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services on Wednesday. (Capitol News Illinois file photo; Mueller image from the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice)
Man gets prison time after pleading guilty to child porn charge
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is going to prison after he pleaded guilty to the single count of Dissemination of Child Pornography a grand jury charged him with last year. Peoria County Court records st...
Jan 03, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
