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US House Republicans reject Senate deal to restore airport security funding
March 27 (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a bipartisan Senate compromise to end a six-week partial government shutdown, raising the prospect that ...
Mar 27, 2026 Passengers wait in line to access a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security checkpoint inside the domestic terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. March 27, 2026. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer
Trump extends deadline for striking Iranian energy plants to April 7
By Pesha Magid and Steve Holland JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump extended his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face the destruction of its ene...
Mar 27, 2026 A drone view shows damage in a residential neighbourhood, following a night of Iranian missile strikes which injured dozens of Israelis, amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, in Arad, southern Israel March 26, 2026. REUTERS/ Ilan Rosenberg
Savannah Guthrie to return to 'Today' show on April 6, following mother's abduction
WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - Savannah Guthrie is scheduled to return to her job as a co-anchor of NBC's "Today" show on April 6, the network said on Friday, more than two months after her 84-year-...
Mar 27, 2026 A delivery driver drops off yellow flowers at the house of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of U.S. journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, who went missing from her home on February 1, in Tucson, U.S. February 21, 2026. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble
Peoria man pleads not guilty to alleged child sex crimes
By Liz Lape PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - A Peoria man pleaded not guilty to sexually abusing a minor in Peoria County court on Thursday. 61-year-old Alfred Cohoon is accused of criminal sexual abuse invol...
Mar 27, 2026 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Runway reopens at New York's LaGuardia after fatal collision
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - One of two runways that has been closed since Sunday night at LaGuardia Airport after a fatal collision between an Air Canada Express plane and fir...
Mar 27, 2026 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
Update: Senate moves to fund most of Homeland Security after shutdown disrupts airports
Updated at 6:22 a.m. By Anusha Shah, Nolan D. McCaskill and Shivani Tanna March 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Friday that would finance most of the Department of Homeland Securi...
Mar 27, 2026 FILE PHOTO: A Department of Homeland Security officer directs passengers as they wait in long TSA lines amid a funding standoff that has forced 50,000 airport security officers to go without pay, causing delays at airports, at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, U.S., March 25, 2026. REUTERS/Antranik Tavitian
Former WTVP finance director dismissed from lawsuit
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - The former finance director for WTVP has been dismissed from a lawsuit filed by the station and its insurance company. 25 News reports Lin McLaughlin was part of the suit that...
Mar 26, 2026 (25 News)
Business dreams on display at Bradley University's Big Idea Innovation Expo
PEORIA, Ill. - The entrepreneurial hopes and dreams of Bradley students were on display Thursday afternoon. Nearly 20 student-led business ideas were on display at the Big Idea Innovation Expo at the ...
Mar 26, 2026 Abby Rybicki (center) speaks about her product, Flash Frames, at Bradley University's Big Idea Innovation Expo on March 26th, 2026. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Two arrested after alleged East Peoria home invasion and Peoria standoff
UPDATED 8:58 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Two men were arrested in Peoria after an alleged armed home invasion incident in East Peoria. East Peoria Police says 68-year-old Larry Wallace and 37-year-old Gabriel...
Mar 26, 2026
University funding overhaul bill advances in House despite U of I opposition
Article Summary The bill calls for annual increases in university funding of $135 million each year over the next several years, with priority for new money given to schools that are currently the mos...
Mar 26, 2026 Nicholas Jones, left, executive vice president of the University of Illinois System, testifies before a House Committee opposing a bill to overhaul the way Illinois funds public universities. Also testifying in favor of the bill are Southern Illinois University System President Daniel Mahoney, center, and Eastern Illinois University President Jay Gatrell. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
