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SpaceX launches billionaire's private crew on milestone spacewalk mission
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Four private astronauts blasted into space early on Tuesday in a modified SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, kicking off the company's five-day Polaris Dawn mission, which aims to test ...
Sep 10, 2024 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is prepared for another launch attempt for Polaris Dawn, a private human spaceflight mission, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. September 9, 2024. Two crew members are expected to attempt the first-ever private spacewalk. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
PPS Board approves raises for teachers and safety officers
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Public Schools Board unanimously approved pay raises for nearly a thousand teachers and for campus safety officers on Monday. The school board approved a two-year contract ex...
Sep 10, 2024 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Trump, Harris to clash at debate that could reshape 2024 race
(Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris will meet in their first and perhaps only debate on Tuesday, a clash that could prove pivota...
Sep 10, 2024 Former U.S. President Donald Trump in New York City, U.S. May 30, 2024 and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, U.S., July 22, 2024 in a combination of file photos. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz, Nathan Howard/File Photo
Israel strikes tent camp in Gaza safe zone, dozens reported killed or wounded
AL-MAWASI, Gaza Strip/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli strikes ripped a huge crater, set tents ablaze and buried Palestinian families alive under sand in a safe in a zone in southern Gaza before dawn on Tuesd...
Sep 10, 2024 Palestinians inspect the site following Israeli strikes on a tent camp sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, at the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, September 10, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Manhunt continues in Peoria County for Ohio man accused of child abduction and vehicle theft
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - Peoria County's Sheriff admits that police have run into some "bad luck" in trying to find an Ohio man on the run. Police have been hunting for 45-year-old Victor Farris since We...
Sep 09, 2024 (Woodford County Sheriff's Office via Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Apple debuts iPhone 16 with AI software in American English coming next month
CUPERTINO, California (Reuters) -Apple on Monday unveiled its artificial intelligence-boosted iPhone 16, showing off the long-awaited device hours after Chinese rival Huawei's tri-fold phone began rac...
Sep 09, 2024 The iPhone 16 Pro is seen at an event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California, U.S. September 9, 2024. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo
James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader, dies at 93
LOS ANGELES - American actor James Earl Jones, an imposing stage and screen presence who overcame a childhood stutter to develop a stentorian voice recognized the world over as intergalactic villain D...
Sep 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: 71st Tony Awards – Show – New York City, U.S., 11/06/2017 - James Earl Jones - Tony Lifetime Achievement. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
US charges alleged white supremacist gangsters with trying to incite race war
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors unveiled criminal charges on Monday against two alleged leaders of a white supremacist gang, accusing them of soliciting attacks on Black, Jewish, LGBTQ people a...
Sep 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A security guard walks down the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., July 19, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/File Photo
Man pleads guilty to April 2023 shooting death of woman at Dunlap apartment
PEORIA, Ill. - The man accused in the shooting death of a woman in Dunlap last year is pleading guilty to her murder. Court records indicate a jury trial for Walter Artis' was to begin Monday after pl...
Sep 09, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Farmington teacher's aide pleads not guilty to felony solicitation of a child charge
FARMINGTON, Ill. - A Farmington teacher's aide accused of allegedly soliciting a minor for sex at her home pleaded not guilty Monday morning. 25 News reports 39-year-old Kelli Miller made the plea to ...
Sep 09, 2024 courtroom gavel
