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Biden executive order reinforces background checks for gun buyers
UPDATED 2:12 P.M. (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Tuesday that reinforced background checks for gun buyers in what the White House is promoting as the most comprehens...
Mar 14, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden embraces Jackie Hegarty, a Sandy Hook school shooting survivor during the 10th Annual National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence in Washington, U.S. December 7, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Peoria-area Catholic okay to eat meat this Friday during Lent
PEORIA, Ill. - Good news for Peoria-area Catholics -- you can eat meat this Friday. While not every Catholic Diocese does it, the Catholic Diocese of Peoria says given past practices, Bishop Louis Tyl...
Mar 14, 2023 (Catholic Diocese of Peoria via YouTube)
Tech execs race to save startups from 'extinction' after SVB collapse
PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - Technology executives, prominent venture capitalists and founders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman raced this weekend to keep alive companies caught up in the collapse...
Mar 14, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The main entrance of Silicon Valley Bank is pictured in Menlo Park, California, U.S. March 10, 2023. REUTERS/Michaela Vatcheva
Fire deemed arson, but 'mental health crisis' to blame
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Firefighters say a small fire Monday afternoon was arson, but not what you typically think of. Firefighters went to a home near Starr and Folkers for the fire, where officials sa...
Mar 13, 2023 (25 News)
Man gets prison for shooting, police standoff
PEORIA, Ill. - He no longer faces Attempted Murder charges, but a Peoria man will go to prison for most of the next two decades after a shooting incident and standoff with police a year and a half ago...
Mar 13, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail October 2021)
Pritzker signs measure guaranteeing five days paid leave for Illinoisans
UPDATED 4:23 P.M. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 208 into law Monday, ensuring at least 40 hours of paid leave for Illinois workers. Effective Jan. 1, ...
Mar 13, 2023 (State of Illinois)
Biden administration approves massive Willow oil project in Alaska
LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration is approving a scaled-back version of ConocoPhillips' $7 billion oil and gas drilling Willow project in Alaska, the U.S. Department of Interi...
Mar 13, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A polar bear keeps close to her young along the Beaufort Sea coast in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska in a March 6, 2007 REUTERS/Susanne Miller/USFWS/handout/File Photo
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen set to testify before grand jury
(Reuters) -Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, is expected to testify on Monday afternoon before a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments he has said he orchestrated...
Mar 13, 2023 Michael Cohen, former attorney for former U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives to the New York Courthouse in New York City, U.S., March 13, 2023. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Metamora wins state championship in basketball
METAMORA, Ill. - For the first time in school history, Metamora is a state champion in basketball. The boys basketball team achieved that feat Saturday evening by defeating Chicago Simeon in the IHSA ...
Mar 13, 2023 (Metamora High School Boys Basketball via Twitter)
Bill aims to guarantee youth sentenced to life in prison a chance at parole after 40 years
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois lawmakers advanced a bill last week that would effectively abolish life sentences for any incarcerated individual who was under the age of 21 when ...
Mar 13, 2023 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
