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Israeli warplanes hit Lebanon again as Hezbollah takes aim at central Israel
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel unleashed more airstrikes on Lebanon on Wednesday and Hezbollah militants fired salvoes of rockets into Israel in the heaviest exchanges between the arch-foes in a ...
Sep 25, 2024 Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system operates for interceptions as rockets are launched from Lebanon towards Israel, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Haifa, Israel, September 24, 2024. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
US accuses Visa of monopolizing debit card swipes
(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Justice sued Visa for alleged antitrust violations on Tuesday, accusing one of the world's largest payment networks of suppressing competition by threatening merchant...
Sep 24, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Visa credit and debit cards are seen in this picture illustration taken August 2, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo
NFL-Hall of Fame quarterback Favre says he has Parkinson's Disease
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre said during a U.S. congressional hearing on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. Once one of the brightest stars in the...
Sep 24, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Sep 20, 2020; Tampa, Florida, USA; Brett Favre in attendance during the first half between the Carolina Panthers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo
Peoria Humane Society announces 28th annual "Bark in the Park"
PEORIA Ill. - We're just days away from the 28th consecutive "Bark in the Park" in Peoria Heights. This annual fundraiser is put on by the Peoria Humane Society -- at Tower Park -- and is their bigges...
Sep 24, 2024 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
Illinois Supreme Court rulings address FOID seizures, hospital room privacy
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Supreme Court last week vacated a lower court ruling and reinstated a statute that authorizes the state to revoke a person's Firearm Owners Identific...
Sep 24, 2024 A statue is pictured outside of the Illinois Supreme Court chamber. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
At UN for last time, Biden seeks to calm Mideast tension
NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden addressed world leaders at the United Nations for the final time on Tuesday, declaring that Russia's war in Ukraine has failed and that a diplomatic soluti...
Sep 24, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 24, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar
What do we need to know about Covid-19 now?
PEORIA, Ill. - As we move into Fall, are Covid-19 numbers on the rise? Dr. Brian Curtis, with OSF HealthCare in Peoria, says not necessarily. He says the virus has definitely hit an endemic phase. "We...
Sep 24, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Israel kills Hezbollah commander in airstrike on Beirut
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -An Israeli airstrike on Beirut killed a senior Hezbollah commander on Tuesday as cross-border rocket attacks by both sides increased fears of a full-fledged war in the Midd...
Sep 24, 2024 A view shows the damage at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon September 24, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Oil firms evacuating US Gulf of Mexico staff as major hurricane looms
HOUSTON (Reuters) -U.S. oil producers were scrambling on Monday to evacuate staff from Gulf of Mexico oil production platforms as the second major hurricane in two weeks was predicted to tear through ...
Sep 24, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A worker climbs up to the next level of Chevron's Petronius oil platform, located 100 miles (161 km) off the coast of New Orleans, in the Gulf of Mexico June 3, 2008. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi/File photo
Pekin student facing consequences after comments about a gun
PEKIN, Ill. - A student at Rankin School in Pekin is facing discipline after making a potentially threatening comment. School administrators of the K-8 school learned last Thursday that a student had ...
Sep 24, 2024 (25 News)
