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Monster hurricane Milton threatens an already battered Florida
(Reuters) -The Category 4 Hurricane Milton was expected to grow larger on Tuesday as it threatened Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on its way to Florida, where more than a million people were ordered to ev...
Oct 08, 2024 People line up to pay for food and supplies in a supermarket as Hurricane Milton advances, in Cancun, Mexico October 7, 2024. REUTERS/Paola Chiomante
North Carolina changes election rules to help voters hit by hurricane Helene
Reuters) -Election officials in the battleground state of North Carolina approved changes on Monday that aim to make it easier for voters in areas devastated by Hurricane Helene to cast ballots in the...
Oct 07, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A resident enters a FEMA's improvised station to attend claims by local residents affected by floods following the passing of Hurricane Helene, in Marion, North Carolina, U.S., October 5, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
Georgia top court reinstates ban on abortions after six weeks
(Reuters) -Georgia's highest court reinstated a ban on nearly all abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy on Monday while it considers the U.S. state's appeal of last week's ruling by a lower cou...
Oct 07, 2024 A patient exam room sits empty at Alamo Women's Reproductive Services, an abortion clinic that closed its doors following the overturn of Roe v. Wade and plans to reopen in New Mexico and Illinois, in San Antonio, Texas, August 16, 2022. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare/File Photo
Mega Millions To Get MEGA Enhancements in April 2025
PEORIA Ill. - Mega-Millions announces BIGGER jackpots and BETTER odds... The lottery game is launching a series of new improvements next April -- including the first ticket-price change since 2017. Ti...
Oct 07, 2024 (Mega Millions Consortium)
Man arrested near Peoria apartment complex after allegedly found with loaded weapon
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say a man was arrested Friday morning after allegedly being in possession of a stolen weapon. Officers responded just after 10:30 A.M. near the Lexington Hills Apartments ...
Oct 07, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US Supreme Court rebuffs Biden administration on emergency abortions in Texas
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by President Joe Biden's administration to enforce in Texas federal guidance requiring hospitals to perform abortions if ...
Oct 07, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A view of the U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, U.S., July 1, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/File Photo
Nobel prize for medicine goes to U.S. duo for discovery of microRNA
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live,...
Oct 07, 2024 Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Assembly and the Nobel Committee, speaks as Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was announced during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 7, 2024. Christine Olsson/TT News Agency/via REUTERS
Gas prices drop again in Peoria area
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices are still on a downward trend in central Illinois. GasBuddy reports an average of $3.34/g Monday in the Peoria area, down 2.4 cents in the past week. Their average is 23.1 ce...
Oct 07, 2024 Orin Zebest / CC
Israel marks Oct. 7 anniversary under shadow of escalating war
REIM, Israel (Reuters) -Israelis on Monday marked the first anniversary of the devastating Hamas attack that triggered a war which has sparked protest worldwide and risks igniting a far wider conflict...
Oct 07, 2024 A woman reacts as she takes part in a march towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence, to mark one year since the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas, in Jerusalem, October 7, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Man reportedly with shotgun arrested Sunday in Tremont
TREMONT, Ill. - A man reportedly with a shotgun was arrested by Tremont Police Sunday afternoon. Tremont Police says the 38-year-old was spotted in the area of James and Elm at around 4:15 P.M. Police...
Oct 07, 2024
