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U.S. working to enable Afghanistan charter flights, Blinken says
DOHA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday the United States is working to ensure charter flights carrying U.S. citizens and at-risk Afghans can leave Afghanistan safely. ...
Sep 07, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about Afghanistan during a media briefing at the State Department, in Washington, U.S., September 3, 2021. Olivier Douliery/Pool via REUTERS
Biden to visit NY, NJ to view Hurricane Ida's destruction
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden will visit New York and New Jersey on Tuesday to view the destruction wrought by last week's Hurricane Ida, which has left at least 57 dead and four missing in the east...
Sep 07, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A satellite image shows a rail yard and homes along Huff Avenue submerged in floodwater after torrential rains swept through Manville, New Jersey, U.S., following the passing of Hurricane Ida, September 2, 2021. Satellite image copyright 2021 Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS
Tazewell County honors Underground Railroad conductors
DELAVAN, Ill. -- Tazewell County held a fourth event honoring its involvement with the Underground Railroad on Monday. It was the fourth out of five events honoring local "Freedom Train" conductors. T...
Sep 07, 2021 (25 News)
Taliban claim control of Panjshir, promise formation of government 'soon'
(Reuters) - The Taliban claimed victory on Monday over opposition forces in the Panjshir valley northeast of Kabul, declaring that it completed the Islamist group's takeover of Afghanistan and promisi...
Sep 06, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A truck with National Resistance Front markings is seen on a mountain top near Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan in this still image obtained from an undated video handout. NATIONAL RESISTANCE FRONT OF AFGHANISTAN HANDOUT/Handout via REUTERS
Florida gunman kills 4 including baby, wounds 11-year-old girl
(Reuters) - A self-described survivalist in body armor shot and killed four people, including a woman and her 3-month-old baby boy in her arms, before surrendering to police in central Florida on Sund...
Sep 06, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Homicide victim identified, suspect arrested
UPDATE - PEORIA, Ill. - The suspect in Peoria's 22nd homicide of the year is in custody. Peoria police say Orlando Alexander, 42, turned himself in without incident around 2:32 p.m. Sunday in the 1200...
Sep 05, 2021 Peoria Police Department
Driver arrested, another sought, following alleged street race accident
UPDATE - PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria police are looking for the driver of a vehicle which may be connected to an accident that sent three people to a local hospital with serious to critical injuries. The ac...
Sep 05, 2021 Peoria Police Department
Area health needs assessment being updated
PEORIA, Ill. - The COVID-19 pandemic isn't the only health concern for the health departments in the Tri-County and the area's other medical entities. Monica Hendrickson, administrator of the Peoria C...
Sep 05, 2021 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Percentage of pregnant women vaccinated against COVID-19 'alarmingly low'
PEORIA, Ill. - (OSF HealthCare) - As the delta variant becomes more common, now making up 99% of cases in the U.S., OSF HealthCare frontline doctors are seeing more and more cases of pregnant women ad...
Sep 05, 2021 Supplied photo: OSF HealthCare
Memorial workout at Morton fitness center
MORTON, Ill - (25 News ) - A fitness center in Morton hosted a memorial workout for the 13 service members killed in a suicide bombing at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan. BRelentless Training and Sports ...
Sep 05, 2021 25 News
