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Peoria house fire under further investigation
PEORIA Ill. - The Peoria Fire Department is investigating the cause of a house-fire on the 1600 block of North-North Street, that happened Monday afternoon. Crews were called to the home just after 1p...
Nov 04, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Israel officially informs UN of end to relations with Palestinian relief agency
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has officially notified the United Nations that it was cancelling the agreement that regulated its relations with the main U.N. relief organization for Palestinian refugee...
Nov 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A damaged sign is pictured at the headquarters of UNRWA, following an Israeli raid, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, July 12, 2024. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas/File Photo
UPDATE: 22-year-old victim in fatal shooting near Peoria apartment complex identified
UPDATED 6:08 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The victim in a fatal shooting Monday morning in Peoria has been identified. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says 22-year-old Clay Megan suffered a gunshot wound t...
Nov 04, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Boeing workers vote on wage deal that could end strike
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing U.S. West Coast factory workers will hold a vote on an improved contract offer on Monday that could end a seven-week strike and restart jet production at the troubled planem...
Nov 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Boeing factory workers gather on a picket line during the first day of a strike near the entrance of a production facility in Renton, Washington, U.S., September 13, 2024. REUTERS/Matt Mills McKnight/File Photo
Gas prices take a sharp decline in Peoria area
PEORIA, Ill. - The price at the pump in Peoria is falling. GasBuddy reports a $3.26/g average for unleaded in the Peoria area today. The average is 6.4 cents lower than a week ago, 7.9 cents lower tha...
Nov 04, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
U.S music supremo Quincy Jones, who worked with Sinatra and Jackson, dies aged 91
(Reuters) - Quincy Jones, the man known simply as "Q," was a huge influence on American music in his work with artists ranging from Count Basie to Frank Sinatra and reshaped pop music in his collabora...
Nov 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Legendary American producer Quincy Jones poses during a ceremony to rename a concert hall to his name and celebrate his 85th birthday during the opening night of the 52nd Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, June 29, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
Trump and Harris campaigns race to get the vote out on eve of US election
RALEIGH, North Carolina/DETROIT (Reuters) - A presidential election unlike any other in U.S. history enters its last full day on Monday with Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and their campaigns scrambling ...
Nov 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris are seen in a combination of file photographs taken in New York City October 17, 2024 and in Chandler, Arizona, U.S., October 10, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid & Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Israeli attacks kill at least 31 people in Gaza, medics say
CAIRO (Reuters) -At least 31 people were killed during Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medics said, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army has wag...
Nov 03, 2024 Palestinians watch as smoke rises following Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, November 1, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Mustafa
UPDATE: Peoria Police investigating Saturday shooting
UPDATED 11/4 4:30 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have released more details regarding multiple shots fired Saturday night on the South Side. 25 News reports two buildings were hit by gunfire just b...
Nov 03, 2024
Harris campaigns in Michigan, Trump hits eastern battleground states
DETROIT -Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris campaigns in Michigan on Sunday while her Republican rival Donald Trump will stop in three eastern battleground states just two days before Tue...
Nov 03, 2024 Greensboro, North Carolina, November 2, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
