Category Archives: Top Stories
Israeli tanks retreat from central Gaza camp, medics say 30 killed
CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli military strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians overnight in the Gaza Strip, most of them in the Nuseirat camp at the center of the enclave, medics said on Friday, after som...
Nov 29, 2024 FILE PHOTO: People move the body of a Palestinian at a hospital after an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, November 29, 2024. REUTERS/Khamis Said/File Photo
Retailers ready Black Friday offers as they face shorter selling season, cautious shoppers
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -From Taylor Swift's new Eras Tour book priced at $39.99 and sold only at Target, to a $50.99 Jessica Simpson puffer coat at Walmart, marked down from $84.99, retailers in Eu...
Nov 29, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A shopper walks past an advertisement for Black Friday sales displayed in a store window at Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 27, 2024. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo
Arson suspected in Thanksgiving Day fire in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a garage in the 900 block of W. Macqueen Avenue on reports of a fire on Thursday. Crews arrived just before 4:15 p.m., finding the garage on fire in t...
Nov 29, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Peoria's ready for 137th Santa Claus Parade Friday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's Santa Claus Parade, the longest-running holiday parade of its kind in the nation, steps off Friday morning downtown for the 137th time at 9:15 a.m. Bundle up...because it will ...
Nov 29, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Five Democratic US lawmakers receive bomb threats at home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five Democratic U.S. lawmakers from Connecticut on Thursday said they were targeted with bomb threats at their homes, but no explosive devices had been found, according to socia...
Nov 29, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) gestures as he speaks during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats, in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 15, 2021. Al Drago/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Israel says ceasefire with Hezbollah violated, fires on south Lebanon
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israel said on Thursday that its ceasefire with Hezbollah was breached hours after Lebanese security sources said Israeli tanks attacked six areas of southern Lebanon, calling into ...
Nov 28, 2024 A man walks past rubble of destroyed buildings which was previously a market area, in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatieh, on the second day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon November 28, 2024. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Peoria's Liberty Steel factory announces layoffs ahead of holidays
PEORIA Ill. - Just one day before the Thanksgiving holiday -- workers at Peoria's Liberty Steel learned they will be out of a job for at least the next two months -- and definitely through the holiday...
Nov 27, 2024 (25 News)
Trump administration picks targeted with bomb threats and swatting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Several of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet and administration picks were targeted this week with actions including bomb threats and "swatting," a spokesperson for the tran...
Nov 27, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech during a tour of the Double Eagle Energy Oil Rig in Midland, Texas, U.S., July 29, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
The next school reform push in Illinois: testing and accountability
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Education officials from five statewide organizations are pushing for fundamental changes in the way student achievement is measured each year and how schoo...
Nov 27, 2024 (Capitol News Illinois File Photo)
Man arrested in connection to Monday shooting in Peoria, ordered to remain in jail
UPDATED: 3:44PM PEORIA Ill. - The man arrested in connection to a shooting in Peoria on Monday -- will stay in jail until his arraignment hearing. According to Peoria County State's Attorney, Jodi Hoo...
Nov 27, 2024 (Jaylan Russell mug shot)
