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UPDATE: UAW strike enters fourth day, no resolution in sight
UPDATED 2:42 P.M. (Reuters) -Talks between the United Auto Workers and the Detroit Three automakers continued on Monday as a strike by auto workers over pay dragged on for a fourth day with little sig...
Sep 18, 2023 Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, walks the picket line with striking United Auto Workers members outside the Ford Motor Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan U.S., September 17, 2023. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
House Republicans eye short-term spending deal as shutdown looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -With a possible partial government shutdown looming in two weeks, House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Sunday said he would bring a defense spending bill to a vote ...
Sep 18, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol Building is seen in Washington, U.S., August 31, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Wurm/File Photo
Storm Lee makes landfall in Canada, downing trees and knocking out power
LOCKEPORT, Nova Scotia (Reuters) -Lee made landfall as a post-tropical cyclone packing hurricane-force winds in a far western part of Canada's Nova Scotia province on Saturday, flooding roads, downing...
Sep 17, 2023 People take photographs of water flooding after Hurricane Lee was downgraded to a Post Tropical Storm and started to impact, in Lockeport, Nova Scotia, Canada, September 16, 2023. REUTERS/John Morris
Illinois health officials looking to combat a trio of respiratory viruses this fall
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois public health officials are hoping to minimize the chances of what they call a "tri-demic." The season for respiratory virus; such as COVID-19, RSV, and the flu, is near. ...
Sep 17, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
US auto workers strike against Detroit Three enters third day
(Reuters) - The United Auto Workers strike against the Detroit Three automakers is set to enter its third day Sunday with no immediate resolution on the horizon. On Saturday, negotiators for the Unite...
Sep 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: United Auto Workers members hold up strike signs across from the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, U.S., September 15, 2023. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
North Korea's Kim heads home after week-long visit to Russia
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was heading home by train on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported, after a week-long visit to Russia that included talks with President Vladimir Puti...
Sep 17, 2023 Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toast, as he visits Vladivostok, Russia, September 16, 2023 released by the Korean Central News Agency on September 17, 2023. KCNA via REUTERS
One person taken to hospital after being extracted from vehicle following early Sunday morning crash
PEORIA, Ill. - One person had to be extracted from a vehicle via the "Jaws of Life" after a crash in Peoria early Sunday morning. Peoria Fire says the crash occurred at around 3:12 A.M. in the area of...
Sep 17, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
UAW, automakers resume talks as US strike stretches into second day
(Reuters) -Talks between the United Auto Workers and the Detroit Three automakers resumed on Saturday, a day after the union initiated the most ambitious U.S. industrial labor action in decades with s...
Sep 16, 2023 United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain and UAW members march in the street in support of striking UAW members in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. September 15, 2023. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
Lee weakens to post-tropical cyclone as it nears New England and Canada
SHELBURNE, NOVA SCOTIA (Reuters) -After churning for more than a week over the Atlantic Ocean, Lee turned into a post-tropical cyclone as the weather system closed in on New England and Atlantic Canad...
Sep 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A composite image shows Hurricane Lee churning towards the Caribbean after intensifying into a major storm, September 8, 2023. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Handout REUTERS
UPDATE: New 'Welcome to Peoria' sign installed at city's south entrance
UPDATED 3:47 P.M. 9/19/23 PEORIA, Ill. - If you come into Peoria from the south, you'll see a brand new sign greeting you. The city's Public Works Department says it's installed a new six feet tall, f...
Sep 16, 2023 (City of Peoria)
