Category Archives: Top Stories
UPDATE: Peoria Riverfront Museum receives largest educational gift in its history
UPDATED 1:40 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Students across central Illinois will benefit from the largest educational gift the Peoria Riverfront Museum has ever received. The museum announced the gift of $1 mil...
Sep 12, 2023 (Peoria Riverfront Museum via Facebook)
Police arrest one after drugs, guns, ammo found in home by SWAT Team
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have arrested a man after a search of a home turned up suspected drugs and stolen guns. Peoria police say Darnell Payton, 41, faces charges of Possession of a Weapon by a ...
Sep 12, 2023 (Peoria Police via Facebook)
Escaped Pennsylvania murderer shot at by homeowner while stealing rifle
(Reuters) - A convicted murderer who broke out of a Pennsylvania prison two weeks ago snatched a rifle from the garage of a homeowner, who then opened fire on him as he fled, authorities said on Tuesd...
Sep 12, 2023 Escaped convict Danelo Cavalcante, 34, a Brazilian who escaped from Chester County Prison where he was awaiting transfer to a state prison to serve a life sentence for killing his ex-girlfriend, is seen clean shaven and wearing a hooded sweatshirt, black baseball cap, green prison pants and white shoes, in stills from security camera video near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, U.S. September 9, 2023. Pennsylvania State Police/Handout via REUTERS/File photo
Top US House Republican McCarthy calls for Biden impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday called for an impeachment inquiry into Democratic President Joe Biden encouraged by his party's right ...
Sep 12, 2023 U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) holds a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. May 31, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File photo
US says Google cheated and tried to hide its efforts to dominate search
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States argued on Tuesday that Google did not play by the rules in its efforts to keep its dominance in online search, paying $10 billion to ensure that smaller rivals ...
Sep 12, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured at Google's European Engineering Center in Zurich, Switzerland July 19, 2018 REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo/File Photo
Shutdown risk looms as US Congress faces spending, impeachment brawl
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives returns this week for an expected political brawl over spending cuts and impeachment that could paralyze the Republican-controlled chamber, as ...
Sep 12, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A U.S. Capitol Police Officer walks a K-9 dog in front of the Capitol amid talks over government funding, as the threat of an October government shutdown looms on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 6, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson/File Photo
Jussie Smollett could be headed back to jail
CHICAGO, Ill. - An Illinois appellate judge will hear arguments from both sides on Tuesday to decide whether disgraced actor Jussie Smollett should be sent back to the Cook County jail to serve the re...
Sep 12, 2023 Midwest Communications
Family escapes fire overnight in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria fire crews were called overnight to a residential fire in the area of E. McClure and N. Indiana. Fire Battalion Chief Scott Strum said the call came in around 11:40 p.m. Monday. ...
Sep 12, 2023 Midwest Communications
Morocco quake toll likely to rise with rescuers yet to reach some remote villages
TALAT N'YAAQOUB, Morocco (Reuters) -Many survivors of Morocco's most powerful earthquake in over a century were struggling in makeshift shelters on Tuesday after a fourth night outside, with rescuers ...
Sep 12, 2023 Emergency crews work, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Amizmiz, Morocco, September 10, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho Doce TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Pennsylvania fugitive now believed to be armed and dangerous
EAST NANTMEAL, Pa. - Pennsylvania authorities early Tuesday morning said fugitive Danelo Cavalcante, who remains on the run after he escaped prison nearly two weeks ago, is now armed. Pennsylvania Sta...
Sep 12, 2023 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
