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Dolly Parton receives $100 million award from Jeff Bezos
(Reuters) - Country music star and philanthropist Dolly Parton received a $100 million prize from the "Bezos Courage & Civility Award" given by Amazon.com founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos, an honor...
Nov 14, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Dolly Parton attends the 57th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., March 7, 2022. REUTERS/Maria Alejandra Cardona/File Photo
Man sentenced to federal prison following April police chase
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man will go to prison for a few years after pleading guilty to a felony weapons-related charge. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Jacobi Turner-Claudin, 29, was sentenced last we...
Nov 14, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Biden and Xi clash over Taiwan in Bali but Cold War fears cool
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping engaged in blunt talks over Taiwan and North Korea on Monday in a three-hour meeting aimed at preventing strain...
Nov 14, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 leaders' summit in Bali, Indonesia, November 14, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
U.S. court extends block on Biden's student loan forgiveness plan
(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court has extended a block on President Joe Biden's administration from fulfilling his plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt at the urging of s...
Nov 14, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A graduating student waits for the start of the Commencement ceremony at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 27, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Gas prices decline in Peoria-Pekin area
PEORIA, Ill. - Don't tell some gas stations in Peoria, but both AAA and GasBuddy.com say the price of gas took a bit of a drop in the last week. AAA's Peoria-Pekin Metro average as of Monday sits at n...
Nov 14, 2022 Mike Mozart / CC
Four University of Idaho students found dead, police investigate as homicides
(Reuters) - Police in northwestern Idaho opened a homicide investigation into the deaths of four University of Idaho students whose bodies were found in a house near campus in an incident that prompte...
Nov 14, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
U.S. Supreme Court rejects StarKist's tuna price-fixing class action appeal
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by StarKist Co, owned by South Korea's Dongwon Industries, to avoid a lawsuit by tuna buyers accusing it of fixing prices. The justic...
Nov 14, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The sun sets on the U.S. Supreme Court building after a stormy day in Washington, U.S., November 11, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis
U.S. Supreme Court again spurns challenge to gun 'bump stock' ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away another challenge to a federal ban imposed under former President Donald Trump on devices called "bump stocks" that enable a semi-aut...
Nov 14, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A bump fire stock that attaches to a semi-automatic rifle to increase the firing rate is seen at Good Guys Gun Shop in Orem, Utah, U.S., October 4, 2017. REUTERS/George Frey/File Photo
Three members of University of Virginia football team slain in shooting, suspect in custody
UPDATED 10:54 A.M. (Reuters) -A suspect in a shooting at the University of Virginia that left three members of the University of Virginia football team dead was in custody on Monday, hours after he al...
Nov 14, 2022 Christopher Darnell Jones in an image released by the University of Virginia police. UVA police/via Twitter
U.S. to sanction military procurement network aiding Russia, Yellen says
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the United States will impose new sanctions on a transnational network of individuals and companies that have been working to p...
Nov 14, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during her interview with Reuters in New Delhi, India, November 11, 2022. REUTERS/Altaf Hussain
