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Cyber Monday sales expected to slow as shoppers see fewer deals
(Reuters) - U.S. retailers are estimated to generate online sales of up to $11.3 billion on Cyber Monday, a decline in growth from a year earlier as fewer discounts and limited choices due to global s...
Nov 29, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Amazon packages are transported by conveyor belts inside of an Amazon fulfillment center on Cyber Monday in Robbinsville, New Jersey, U.S., December 2, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
Biden told it will take two weeks to have definitive data on Omicron variant
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. infectious disease official, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told President Joe Biden on Sunday it will take about two weeks to have definitive information on the new coronaviru...
Nov 29, 2021 FILE PHOTO: People enter the baggage claim area from the international arrivals terminal as the U.S. reopens air and land borders to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccinated travellers for the first time since the COVID-19 restrictions were imposed, at Sea-Tac Airport in Seattle, Washington, U.S. November 8, 2021. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson
One man shot, another stabbed, in Farmington incident
FARMINGTON, Ill. - Two men have been hospitalized after a stabbing and shooting in rural Farmington early Saturday morning. The Fulton County Sheriff's Department says deputies found one male with gun...
Nov 28, 2021 Midwest Communications
Thanksgiving night fire victim suffered severe burns: coroner
UPDATE - Saturday 8:33 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. - A man who was killed in a Peoria house fire Thanksgiving night suffered smoke inhalation and burns, according to the Peoria County coroner. An autopsy was co...
Nov 27, 2021 Midwest Communications
Autopsy results on Arizona jogger struck and killed in Chillicothe
UPDATE PEORIA, Ill. - Autopsy results have been released after a jogger was struck and killed in Chillicothe Friday. The Peoria County coroner says Jonah Koponen, 23, of Phoenix, Arizona suffered seve...
Nov 27, 2021 Midwest Communications
Homicide suspect arrested, victim's autopsy results released
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria police have arrested a suspect in connection with a Thanksgiving Day homicide. Police spokesperson Simone Roth says Martarius McGee, 24, turned himself in at the Peoria Police De...
Nov 27, 2021
South Side Mission asking for support on "Giving Tuesday"
PEORIA, Ill. -- We all know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but what about Giving Tuesday? Rich Draeger, Development Manager with Peoria's Southside Mission, says for non-profit organizations, Gi...
Nov 27, 2021 (South Side Mission)
Crash overnight sends juvenile to the hospital
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called just after 10:30 p.m. Friday to a single-vehicle crash at the intersection of W. Third and Sand Street. PPD said the vehicle hit a parked car and ended up in ...
Nov 27, 2021 (25 News)
Peoria high-rise evacuated after fire Friday
PEORIA, Ill. -- Residents of a high-rise senior living facility in Peoria had to be evacuated Friday after fire broke out in their building. Emergency crews responded just before 4 p.m. Friday to the ...
Nov 27, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim, whose work transformed musical theater, dead at 91
(Reuters) -Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who helped American musical theater evolve beyond pure entertainment and reach new artistic heights with such works as "West Side Story," "I...
Nov 27, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Stephen Sondheim poses as he arrives at a special screening of the DreamWorks Pictures film "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California December 5, 2007. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
