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Some 80,000 pages of JFK files will be released Tuesday, Trump says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, who has ordered the release of classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, said on Monday that his adm...
Mar 17, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media after attending a board meeting at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 17, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Early voting now gets underway in Peoria County
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County voters now get to join the consolidated election party. Monday is the first day voters in the county can cast an early ballot for the April first elections. Early voting w...
Mar 17, 2025 joaquincorbalan / Depositphotos.com
One driver involved in two-vehicle crash in Peoria arrested on a drug charge
PEORIA, Ill. - One person has been arrested after a two-vehicle crash Friday in Peoria. Peoria Police say 39-year-old Theron Seiber was arrested for Possession of Cannabis. Police say Seiber was the d...
Mar 17, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Peorians celebrate St. Patrick's Day with annual parade through downtown
PEORIA, Ill. - Hundreds lined the streets of downtown Peoria Monday morning to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. The annual parade run by the St. Patrick Society of Peoria weaved its way from Monroe to Mai...
Mar 17, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump vows to hold Iran responsible for Houthi attacks
WASHINGTON/ADEN (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would hold Iran responsible for any attacks carried out by the Houthi group that it backs in Yemen, as his administration expa...
Mar 17, 2025 FILE PHOTO: People gather on the rubble of a house hit by a U.S. strike in Saada, Yemen March 16, 2025. REUTERS/Naif Rahma/File Photo
US Postal Service seeks DOGE's help on retail leases, counterfeit postage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said on Monday he had asked the government efficiency team led by Elon Musk for assistance with a number of issues, including a review of the ...
Mar 17, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy responds to a question during an interview with Reuters at the U.S. Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2022. Picture taken April 20, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File photo
UPDATE: Trump says he and Putin will discuss power plants, land in talks to end Ukraine war
UPDATED 12:56 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he would speak to Russia's Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about ending the Ukraine war, with territorial concessions by Kyiv and c...
Mar 17, 2025 Firefighters work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv, Ukraine March 16, 2025. REUTERS/Maksym Kishka
Trump administration deports Venezuelans despite court order, says judge has no authority
By Nathan Layne, Jack Queen and Helen Coster -The Trump administration has deported alleged members of a Venezuelan gang from the U.S. despite a court order forbidding it from doing so, saying in an e...
Mar 17, 2025 Salvadoran police officers escort alleged members of the Tren de Aragua recently deported by the U.S. government to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, as part of an agreement with the Salvadoran government, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in this handout image obtained March 16, 2025. Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via REUTERS
US death toll from extreme weather over the weekend rises to 36
(Reuters) -Portions of Pennsylvania, New York and Mid-Atlantic and Southeast states were still under a National Weather Service watch for damaging wind and tornadoes, as the death toll from weekend st...
Mar 17, 2025 Debris lies around damaged houses the morning after a tornado touched down in Florissant, Missouri, U.S. March 15, 2025. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant
GasBuddy: Peoria gas prices drop a few cents following national trend
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have fallen 2.5 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.23 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices in Peoria are j...
Mar 17, 2025 Orin Zebest / CC
