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Peoria looks to bring back food carts, advance industrial park development
PEORIA, Ill. - The City of Peoria is working to bring food carts back to downtown and move forward with a new industrial business park, according to City Manager Patrick Urich. Urich discussed both in...
Mar 10, 2026 (City of Peoria)
Illinois Supreme Court weighs challenge to state gun restriction
Article Summary A Cook County man is challenging a state law that prohibits people convicted of any felony from ever owning or possessing a firearm. The U.S. Supreme Court held in 2022 that gun regula...
Mar 10, 2026 The Illinois Supreme Court is considering a challenge to a state law that prohibits people with any felony conviction from owning or possessing a firearm. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Grand jury indicts two 18-year-olds allegedly involved in violent car chase
PEORIA, Ill. - The two 18-year-olds alleged to have been behind a violent car chase through Peoria last month have been indicted by a grand jury. Daviere Dillard was indicted on Tuesday for Attempt Fi...
Mar 10, 2026 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Israeli strikes hit near Beirut as envoy says disarming Hezbollah could end war
BEIRUT, March 10 (Reuters) - Israel's military pounded the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs with air strikes on Tuesday and its troops pushed deeper into the country's south, as an Israeli envoy sa...
Mar 10, 2026 Smoke rises after an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, Lebanon, March 10, 2026. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Iran fighting back but not stronger than U.S. thought, top U.S. general says
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - Iran is fighting back but is not tougher than the U.S. military expected before the war, the top U.S. general told reporters on Tuesday,...
Mar 10, 2026 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine holds a briefing amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 2, 2026. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
US airport security lines worsen as missed paycheck looms for screeners
By David Shepardson and P.J. Huffstutter WASHINGTON/HOUSTON, March 9 (Reuters) - Rising absences by airport screeners caused a second straight day of longer-than-normal security lines, sparking worrie...
Mar 10, 2026 An airport official directs passengers at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, in Kenner, Louisiana, U.S., March 8, 2026. REUTERS/David Gaffen
Pope Leo fires San Diego bishop accused of stealing $250,000
VATICAN CITY, March 10 (Reuters) - Pope Leo has accepted the resignation of a Catholic bishop in San Diego who was arrested by local authorities on suspicion of stealing $250,000 from his congregation...
Mar 10, 2026 Pope Leo celebrates Mass at the Parish of Saint Mary of the Presentation in Rome, Italy, March 8, 2026. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca
Peoria leaders want more food vendors to return to downtown
By Liz Lape PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - More food vendors could line the streets of Downtown Peoria later this year. City staffers have proposed to city council members that they would like to increase t...
Mar 10, 2026 One of Peoria's local food trucks. (25 News)
US FAA cancels brief groundstop for JetBlue planes
March 10 (Reuters) - A briefly issued groundstop for all JetBlue flights was canceled within an hour on Tuesday by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) after the airline said it had resolved...
Mar 10, 2026 A JetBlue aircraft comes in to land at Long Beach Airport in Long Beach, California, U.S., January 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Democratic US senators demand immediate hearings on Iran war
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - Six Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Monday said they are embarking on an intensified campaign for public hearings on the Iran war, with top Trump admin...
Mar 10, 2026 Smoke continues to rise after a reported strike on fuel tanks in an oil refinery, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
