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Comcast drops Bally Sports regional sports networks as agreement not reached
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. - Sports fans looking to watch their favorite teams lost an option to do so overnight Tuesday. In a social media post, Diamond Sports Group announced that Comcast has rejected a pr...
TJ Carson May 01, 2024 An on-screen message replaces Bally Sports Midwest on Comcast cable lineups in the Peoria-area. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene to force vote to oust US House Speaker Johnson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a conservative firebrand, Wednesday on Wednesday called for a vote to oust Republican Mike Johnson as speaker of the U.S. House ...
TJ Carson May 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) yells out at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) as Jeffries introduces newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) after Johnson was elected to be the new Speaker at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 25, 2023. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Area students perform in downtown Peoria during GMB Arts in Education Spring Celebration
PEORIA, Ill. - This time each year, you start seeing a lot of school buses in downtown Peoria...and music coming from the Peoria County Courthouse Plaza. Thousands of students are again performing thi...
Julia Bradley May 01, 2024 Students singing at the Peoria County Courthouse Plaza with the Gerald M. Brookhart Arts in Education Spring Celebration.
(GMB Arts in Education Spring Celebration Facebook page)
Wednesday morning fire damages home in East Peoria
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Two animals and a resident were able to escape a house fire in East Peoria Wednesday morning without injury. East Peoria Fire says crews were called to the two-story home just afte...
TJ Carson May 01, 2024 Midwest Communications
Harvey Weinstein expected in New York court after rape conviction overturned
(Reuters) - Harvey Weinstein is due to appear in state court in Manhattan on Wednesday for the first time since New York's highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction last week. The hearing befor...
Julia Bradley May 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Harvey Weinstein arrives at New York Criminal Court for another day of jury deliberations in his sexual assault trial in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., February 24, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
Peoria home demolished after fire Tuesday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a home on Tonti Circle on reports of a fire Tuesday night. Fire Battalion Chief Larry Carter says when crews arrived around 8:20 p.m., they found heav...
Julia Bradley May 01, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Police move in to quell clashes at Los Angeles pro-Palestinian campus protest
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Violent clashes erupted early on Wednesday morning on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles between pro-Palestinian protesters and a group of counter-demons...
Julia Bradley May 01, 2024 Demonstrators guard their encampment during a protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 1, 2024. REUTERS/David Swanson
Hamas official says Blinken ceasefire comments are attempt to pressure the group
CAIRO (Reuters) - Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said on Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is blaming the delay of a Gaza ceasefire agreement on the Palestinian group unfairl...
Julia Bradley May 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reacts, as he speaks to the press in front of a truck with humanitarian aid bound for Gaza at the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization in Amman, Jordan, April 30, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/File Photo
UPDATE: Coroner identifies 18-year-old shot and killed in Peoria
UPDATE 9:19 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the young man who was shot and killed Tuesday night in Peoria. Harwood says the victim is 18-year-old MikeQuese Taylo...
Julia Bradley May 01, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UN warns Israel assault on Gaza's Rafah on 'immediate horizon'
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations on Tuesday warned that an Israeli assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip was "on the immediate horizon" and that "incremental" progress by Israel on aid access...
TJ Carson Apr 30, 2024 Humanitarian aid falls through the sky towards the Gaza Strip, after being dropped from an aircraft, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Israel, April 30, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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