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US schools cancel recess, skylines vanish behind Canada wildfire smoke
NEW YORK (Reuters) -More than a dozen U.S. states were under air-quality alerts on Wednesday as smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires wafted south, casting a dull gray pallor over city skylines an...
Jun 07, 2023 The Manhattan skyline is seen covered in haze and smoke, in New York, June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky
Wildfire smoke from Canada disrupts New York flights
(Reuters) - Some flights into the New York City area on Wednesday were delayed and some briefly halted because of reduced visibility from wildfire smoke from Canada. The Federal Aviation Administratio...
Jun 07, 2023 A New York Waterway ferry travels on the Hudson River shortly after sunrise, as haze and smoke caused by wildfires in Canada hang over the Manhattan skyline, in New York City, New York, U.S., June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Walls coming down at former Heddington Oaks for conversion to youth mental health facility
Thompson says there's only a limited number of beds for mental health treatment at Methodist and Proctor Hospitals, and only a few at each for youth, leading to thousands being sent away every year. I...
Jun 07, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
New festival in Pekin celebrates the community's volunteers
PEKIN, Ill. - Thousands of volunteers in the Pekin area serve in a variety of roles. And the city will now have a festival to honor them. The first Pekin Community Picnic and Volunteer Celebration wil...
Jun 07, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Embattled CEO Chris Licht out at CNN
(Reuters) -CNN Chairman and Chief Executive Chris Licht has stepped down from the media company, effective immediately, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery said on Wednesday. The company said that a...
Jun 07, 2023 Chris Licht arrives for the Time 100 Gala celebrating Time magazine's 100 most influential people people in the world in New York, U.S., June 8, 2022. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
UPDATE: Surgery on Pope Francis was without complications, Vatican says
UPDATED 12:13 P.M. ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis underwent a three-hour surgery in a Rome hospital on Wednesday to repair a hernia most likely caused by scars from an operation in 2021, and the Vatican...
Jun 07, 2023 Pope Francis greets a nun during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
Peoria Public Library, union workers head to mediation after months of no new contract
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public Library and the union that represents its workers will start mediation Wednesday after months without an agreement. AFSCME Local 3464, which represents the library worker...
Jun 07, 2023 (Peoria Public Library via Facebook)
UPDATE: Ex-US Vice President Mike Pence launches 2024 election bid, attacks Trump over Jan.6
UPDATED 2:13 P.M. (Reuters) - Former Vice President Mike Pence, who once served Donald Trump loyally, on Wednesday announced he would challenge his former boss for the Republican presidential nominati...
Jun 07, 2023 Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is greeted by supporters as he arrives with his wife Karen to make a U.S. presidential campaign announcement kicking off his race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination at a Future Farmers of America "enrichment center" in Ankeny, Iowa, U.S. June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Gunman shoots two dead, wounds five others at Virginia high school graduation
(Reuters) -A man armed with four handguns killed two people and wounded five others when he fired into a crowd outside a high school graduation ceremony in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday, police said....
Jun 07, 2023 Law enforcement officers investigate at the scene after a gunman opened fire in a park as high school graduates and their families emerged from a theater where commencement exercises had just concluded, in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. June 6, 2023 in this picture obtained from social media. Clark Frierson/Instagram @by.esign/via REUTERS
First-time 'Park-a-Palooza' on Peoria's riverfront starting Thursday
PEORIA, Ill. - A big celebration is coming to Peoria in just a few days. The Peoria Park District is hosting its first-ever "Park-a-Palooza" along the Peoria Riverfront starting this Thursday, featuri...
Jun 06, 2023 (Peoria Park District via Facebook)
