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Bill targets zoning laws that block homes for adults with disabilities
Article Summary Local zoning rules can create barriers for organizations seeking to provide community integrated living arrangements for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. A Hous...
Mar 31, 2026 Clear skies above an Envision Unlimited community integrated living arrangement, a group home for adults with disabilities, in the Chicago area. (Medill Illinois News Bureau, Photo by Rebecka Pieder)
US Supreme Court rejects Colorado's ban on LGBT 'conversion' talk therapy
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a Colorado law that banned psychotherapists from using "conversion" talk therapy intended to change a LGBT minor's sexual or...
Mar 31, 2026 U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 20, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
US is confronting Russia, China where necessary over Iran, says Hegseth
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - The United States is well aware of what China and Russia are doing to help Iran and are confronting those efforts where necessary, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...
Mar 31, 2026 U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a briefing held with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine (not pictured), amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 31, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
US pump prices hit $4 a gallon as Iran war wreaks havoc on global energy supply
By Nicole Jao NEW YORK, March 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. national average retail price of gasoline crossed $4 a gallon for the first time in more than three years on Monday, data from price tracking serv...
Mar 31, 2026 A gas station mechanic holds a nozzle connected to a gas pump as a gasoline drips out in Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S., March 7, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
LaGuardia controller staffing may have violated procedures on night of collision, document shows
By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK, March 31 (Reuters) - Air traffic controller staffing at LaGuardia airport on the night an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck may have violated the facility's proc...
Mar 31, 2026 FILE PHOTO: The wreckage of an Air Canada Express jet that collided with a ground vehicle on Monday at New York's LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York, U.S., March 24, 2026. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Garage fire causes $60K damage and injures firefighter in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters responded to a detached garage fire on Monday evening that resulted in $60,000 damage and displacing three residents. Battalion Chief Cornell Brooks said crews arriv...
Mar 31, 2026 1470&100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Peoria firefighters rescue dog from fire Monday evening
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters responded to a fire near Monroe and Spring Streets Monday evening that caused roughly $20,000 damage. Battalion Chief Larry Carter said crews arrived around 5:40 p.m...
Mar 31, 2026 (Midwest Communications)
Attack on Michigan synagogue was Hezbollah-inspired 'act of terrorism,' FBI says
WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - The FBI said on Monday that an attack on the largest Jewish temple in Michigan earlier this month was an "act of terrorism" inspired by Hezbollah. Ayman Ghazali, a 41-...
Mar 30, 2026 FILE PHOTO: Parents who pulled out their kids from the Temple Israel Synagogue stand near police after the Michigan State Police reported an active shooting incident there, in West Bloomfield, Michigan, U.S., March 12, 2026. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
Peoria County Sheriff's K9 Freya helps end police chase
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - The Peoria County Sheriff's Office is giving high praise to one of their K-9 units after a police chase on Saturday. The sheriff office says a deputy spotted a man on an unregist...
Mar 30, 2026 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Man pleads guilty for role in 2024 East Bluff shooting that injured teenager
PEORIA, Ill. - A man will spend 12 years in prison for his role in a shooting outside a market in Peoria's East Bluff nearly two years ago. That's after 20-year-old Jaylan Russell pleaded guilty Monda...
Mar 30, 2026 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
