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Biden administration takes step to make marijuana use a less serious crime
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday moved to make marijuana use a less serious federal crime, taking a step to reclassify the drug out of a category that includes heroin in a...
TJ Carson Apr 30, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A worker organizes cannabis flowers before the opening of the first legal recreational marijuana dispensary located in the East Village in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., December 29, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Rivermen announce plans for parade and celebration for President's Cup champions
PEORIA, Ill. - Plans for a party for the Southern Professional Hockey League champions Peoria Rivermen have been made. A championship parade will take place Friday at 5:30 P.M. The parade will start a...
TJ Carson Apr 30, 2024 (Peoria Rivermen)
Two injured after crash Tuesday morning in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Two people were sent to the hospital after a two-vehicle crash Tuesday morning in Peoria. Peoria Fire says the crash happened in the area of University and War Memorial just before 8:00...
TJ Carson Apr 30, 2024 Midwest Communications
US House Democrats won't support motion to eject Speaker Mike Johnson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House Democrats will not support a proposed motion to eject Republican Speaker Mike Johnson if it comes to a vote, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in a statement on Tue...
TJ Carson Apr 30, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-LA) arrives at a news conference at Columbia University in response to demonstrators protesting in support of Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 24, 2024.REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado/File Photo
Election officials to weigh whether Darren Bailey and GOP operative Dan Proft illegally coordinated
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A year and a half after Republican Darren Bailey lost his campaign to challenge Gov. JB Pritzker, state election officials are weighing whether he illegally col...
TJ Carson Apr 30, 2024 Conservative political operative Dan Proft (left) listens to testimony from former Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey (right) in a hearing over allegations that the two illegally coordinated messaging campaigns in 2022. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Peoria man who died in traffic crash in Iowa Sunday night identified
SCOTT COUNTY, Iowa - The Peoria man who was the victim in a fatal accident in Iowa Sunday night has been identified. The Scott County Sheriff's Office says Eric Fraelle, 52, was pronounced dead at the...
TJ Carson Apr 30, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Walmart to shut all health clinics in US over lack of profitability
(Reuters) -Walmart said on Tuesday it will close all 51 of its health centers and shut its virtual health care operations, saying it could not see it as a sustainable business model to continue. "Heal...
Julia Bradley Apr 30, 2024 Shopping trolley is seen in front of Walmart logo in this illustration, July 24, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
UPDATE: Judge fines Trump $9,000, threatens jail for contempt in hush money trial
UPDATED 1:39 P.M. (Reuters) -The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial fined the former U.S. president $9,000 for contempt of court on Tuesday and said he would consider jailing hi...
Julia Bradley Apr 30, 2024 Former U.S. President Donald Trump chats with his son Eric Trump during his criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. April 30, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Driver hospitalized after crash on I-74 Monday night. Here's what we know
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. - On Monday night, the Woodford County Sheriff's Office received multiple calls of a car going off I-74 and into a lake. Sheriff Matthew Smith said an eastbound vehicle on I-74 a...
Julia Bradley Apr 30, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Netanyahu vows again to storm Rafah as Israel awaits Hamas reply to truce proposal
UPDATED 2:54 P.M. JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday to go ahead with a long-promised assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, whatever the respo...
Julia Bradley Apr 30, 2024 A pro-Israeli counter protestor holds up a sign as demonstrators gather outside of Columbia University to demand a ceasefire and the end of Israeli attacks on Gaza, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, during a protest in New York, U.S., April 20, 2024. REUTERS/Adam Gray/File Photo