Category Archives: Top Stories
Good news for Parrotheads: New Jimmy Buffett album coming soon
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The final album recorded by late "Margaritaville" singer Jimmy Buffett will be released in November, his record label said on Friday as it released three singles including a co...
Sep 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Jimmy Buffet and wife Jane at the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscars Party in West Hollywood, California February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/File Photo
Mark Meadows fails in bid to move Georgia election case to federal court
(Reuters) -Charges against Donald Trump's onetime chief of staff Mark Meadows over efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election will not be heard in federal court, a sign that simi...
Sep 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks to reporters following a television interview, outside the White House in Washington, U.S. October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Al Drago
Battery manufacturing plant coming to Illinois - with $530M incentive deal
(Capitol News Illinois) - A new battery manufacturing plant is set to open in northern Illinois next year after the state offered more than $330 million in tax incentives to make it happen. Gotion, a ...
Sep 08, 2023 An electric vehicle is pictured charging in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Two arrested after SWAT Team searches South Peoria home
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peoria women have been arrested after a SWAT team paid a visit to a South Peoria home Thursday morning. Peoria Police say the home in question on Smith Street near DuSable had been ...
Sep 08, 2023 Sidney Bell-Young (left) and Yadonyce McDonald (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
"Tonight Show" host accused of creating a "toxic" work environment
NEW YORK (FOX News) - The host of the "Tonight Show" is facing allegations of a toxic work environment by show staffers. FOX News reports an expose by "Rolling Stone" magazine accused Jimmy Fallon of ...
Sep 08, 2023 Edgar Zuniga Jr. / CC
Illini Bluffs to practice reuniting parents with students in an emergency situation. Here's the details
GLASFORD, Ill. - School districts will typically practice drills for emergency situations, such as a fire or a natural disaster. But one Peoria County school district wants to have parents practice wh...
Sep 08, 2023 (Illini Bluffs School District)
Kroger to divest over 400 stores in bid to close $25 billion Albertsons deal
(Reuters) - Kroger said on Friday it would sell over 400 grocery stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers in an effort to get regulatory approval for its nearly $25-billion takeover of smaller rival Albert...
Sep 08, 2023 Kroger logo is displayed in this illustration taken September 5, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
As Biden, Modi meet before G20, US press sidelined
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden headed into a closed-door meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, shortly after arriving in New Delhi for a G20 summit over the weeken...
Sep 08, 2023 A security force personnel stands guard next to a hoarding decorated with flowers on a pavement ahead of the G20 Summit in New Delhi, India, September 8, 2023. REUTERS/Amit Dave
UPDATE: Fire at Caterpillar's Mapleton plant extinguished, spokesperson says
UPDATED 12:21 P.M. MAPLETON, Ill. - No one was hurt after Caterpillar says fire broke out in what they call a "small part" of its Mapleton Foundry. This, despite black smoke could be seen for a time. ...
Sep 08, 2023 (25 News)
UPDATE: Georgia grand jury recommended charging Lindsey Graham, other Trump allies
UPDATED 12:39 P.M. (Reuters) -A Georgia grand jury recommended criminal charges against Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham and other allies of Donald Trump as part of its investigation into effort...
Sep 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts as he holds a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 29, 2023. REUTERS/Lindsay DeDario/File Photo
