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Nine Sandy Hook families settle liability claims with Remington Arms
(Reuters) - Remington Arms on Tuesday settled liability claims with the families of five adults and four children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, court records showed, the first t...
Feb 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The sign for the new Sandy Hook Elementary School at the end of the drive leading to the school is pictured in Newtown, Connecticut, U.S. July 29, 2016. The officials unveiled the newly constructed school, built to replace the building torn down after a gunman shot dead 20 young children and six educators in a 2012 massacre. REUTERS/Michelle McLoughlin/File Photo
OLYMPICS: Russian teen figure skater Valieva dominates the ice despite doping scandal
BEIJING (Reuters) - Russian teenager Kamila Valieva dominated the ice on Tuesday night, fighting back tears as she completed a skate that put her at the top of the short programme standings. The 15-ye...
Feb 15, 2022 2022 Beijing Olympics - Opening Ceremony - National Stadium, Beijing, China - February 4, 2022. United States of America contingent is seen during the athletes parade at the opening ceremony. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
Fights at Pekin High draws social media attention
PEKIN, Ill. -- School days are being disrupted in a Tazewell County high school, as dozens of fights have broken out, with videos posted to social media. Students tell news partner 25 News, the fights...
Feb 15, 2022
Trudeau invokes emergency powers to starve protesting Canadian trucker of funds
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is planning to impose emergency measures not used for more than 50 years to cut off funding for truckers responsible for nationwide protests that have gridlocked the nation's...
Feb 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A person waves a Canadian flag in front of banners in support of truckers, as truckers and supporters continue to protest the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mandates, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 14, 2022. REUTERS/Lars Hagberg/File Photo
Biden says Russian attack on Ukraine still possible
UPDATE: 3:21 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden urged Russia to step back from the brink of war on Tuesday and said reports that Russia has withdrawn some forces from the Ukraine border h...
Feb 15, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in Russia and Ukraine from the White House in Washington, U.S., February 15, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Trump's longtime accounting firm cuts ties, cannot stand behind statements - filing
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The accounting firm that handled Donald Trump's company's financial statements dropped it as a client and said it could no longer stand behind a decade of statements, a court fili...
Feb 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past 40 Wall Street, also known as the Trump Building, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 19, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Judge to dismiss Sarah Palin case against N.Y. Times regardless of jury verdict
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge said on Monday he will throw out Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, after concluding that an editorial in the newspaper did not maliciously l...
Feb 14, 2022 Sarah Palin, 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor, looks on as New York Times' James Bennet is embraced by his attorneys David Axelrod and Jay Brown after Palin lost her defamation lawsuit trial against the New York Times, at the United States Courthouse in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., February 14, 2022 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Peoria man arrested after numerous drugs and a gun allegedly found in home
PEORIA, Ill. - A federal search warrant was used, in part, to arrest a Peoria man on what Peoria Police only say was "numerous drug and weapon offenses." Officials say Peoria Police and the Drug Enfor...
Feb 14, 2022 (2020 Peoria County Jail Photo)
Mental health "co-response" model in place for Peoria Police; state legislation proposed
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are doing something other police departments in Illinois are trying, in hopes it will get some legislative support in Springfield. A mental health counselor will be part o...
Feb 14, 2022 (25 News)
Principal: Threat made to Pekin Junior High not credible
PEKIN, Ill. - A social media-based threat made to a school in Pekin has been determined to be not credible. That's according to Edison Junior High Principal William Heisel. He tells our news partner 2...
Feb 14, 2022 (25 News)
