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Interim head of WTVP named
PEORIA, Ill. - The parent organization of Peoria Public Television Station WTVP has named a temporary leader. The board of Illinois Valley Telecommunications Corporation says Julie Sanders has been na...
Oct 04, 2023 Julie Sanders (WTVP)
Family farm CEO to run for local State Senate seat
GRIDLEY, Ill. - The mayor of Washington will likely have opposition in his bid to run for a seat in the Illinois Senate in next year's election. Livingston County resident Mike Kirkton has announced h...
Oct 04, 2023 (Mike Kirkton for Senate via Facebook)
Sam Bankman-Fried's wealth was 'built on lies,' prosecutor says at trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sam Bankman-Fried's wealth and power was "built on lies," a U.S. prosecutor said on Wednesday in opening statements for his trial on charges of stealing billions of dollars from cu...
Oct 04, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Indicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at the United States Courthouse in New York City, U.S., July 26, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky/File Photo
Man injured after hit-and-run accident Tuesday evening in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A man was taken to the hospital after a hit-and-run accident Tuesday evening in Central Peoria. Peoria Police says officers were sent to the area of Forrest Hill and Gale around 8:19 P....
Oct 04, 2023 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
UPDATE: Judge chides Donald Trump lawyer's 'ridiculous' questioning in civil fraud trial
UPDATED 1:11 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge overseeing Donald Trump's civil fraud trial pounded his fists in frustration with the former U.S. president's lawyers on Wednesday for what he described ...
Oct 04, 2023 Judge Arthur Engoron is seen in the courtroom before the start of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial at the State Supreme Court building in New York, U.S. October 4, 2023. Mary Altaffer/Pool via REUTERS
US private payrolls gains smallest in more than 2-1/2 years, ADP report shows
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. private employers added the fewest workers in more than 2-1/2 years in September, with large establishments shedding jobs, but that likely exaggerates the pace of slowdown i...
Oct 04, 2023 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign with a QR code is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
UPDATE: Biden announces $9 billion more in student debt relief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that his administration has approved an additional $9 billion in student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers. Biden has said he wil...
Oct 04, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about student debt in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 4, 2023.REUTERS/Leah Millis
Mason Co. man identified as Mapleton drowning victim
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - A Mason County man has been identified as the fisherman who drowned in a Mapleton lake earlier this week. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood on Tuesday identified the man as 59-...
Oct 04, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Five injured in shooting at Morgan State University
BALTIMORE, Md. - Officials say at least five people were wounded Tuesday evening, none of them critically, in a shooting at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. The shooting happened as stu...
Oct 04, 2023 Tony Webster / CC
UPDATE: Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan bid to fill top job in leaderless US House
UPDATED 1:35 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The race to replace ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy took shape on Wednesday as Steve Scalise, the chamber's No.2 Republican, and Jim Jordan, a leading antag...
Oct 04, 2023 House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a prime contender in the race to be the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, arrives for a meeting with the Texas Republican House delegation the morning after former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted from the position of Speaker by a House vote, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. October 4, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
