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PARIS OLYMPICS 2024: What you need to know right now
PARIS (Reuters) -Athletics kicks into gear at the Olympics on Friday, while home crowd favorite Leon Marchand goes for his fourth swimming title of the Paris Games and French judo great Teddy Riner ey...
Aug 02, 2024 Paris 2024 Olympics - Swimming - Men's 200m Individual Medley Semifinal 2 - Paris La Defense Arena, Nanterre, France - August 01, 2024. Leon Marchand of France in action. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
Disc golfers from around the world visit central Illinois for Ledgestone Open
EUREKA, Ill. - Disc golfers from around the world will converge on central Illinois this weekend as they take part in one of the most prestigious tournaments in the country. From Thursday through Sund...
Aug 01, 2024 Professional disc golfer Nathan Queen tees off on the famous 'Water Tower Hole' at the Lake Eureka Temp course during the 2024 Ledgestone Insurance Open. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Minor injuries after crash involving Peoria Police cruiser Thursday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - Two people were treated at a local hospital for minor injuries after a crash involving a Peoria Police cruiser early Thursday morning. Peoria Police say it happened at around 3:30 A.M. ...
Aug 01, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Police arrest two people, one on multiple warrants, Wednesday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say two people were arrested Wednesday night on multiple charges and warrants. Officers observed a wanted suspect, identified as 26-year-old Kennie Young, just before 9:00...
Aug 01, 2024 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Olympics-Gymnastics-Biles clinches sixth Olympic gold at all-around final
PARIS(Reuters) - Simone Biles clinched her sixth Olympic gold medal in front of an ecstatic crowd at the Paris Games on Thursday, reasserting her status as the number one all around gymnast three year...
Aug 01, 2024 Paris 2024 Olympics - Artistic Gymnastics - Women's All-Around Victory Ceremony - Bercy Arena, Paris, France - August 01, 2024. Gold medallist Simone Biles of United States celebrates on the podium with bronze medallist Sunisa Lee of United States. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Trump loses appeal of gag order in hush money criminal case
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York state appeals court on Thursday rejected Donald Trump's challenge to a gag order in his hush money criminal case, where the former U.S. president was convicted in May o...
Aug 01, 2024 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump closes his eyes during a panel of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. July 31, 2024. REUTERS/Vincent Alban/File Photo
OSF HealthCare's Bob Anderson announcing retirement
PEORIA, Ill. - OSF HealthCare is announcing the retirement of Central Region CEO Bob Anderson early next year. OSF says Anderson has been instrumental in designing and constructing several projects on...
Aug 01, 2024 (OSF HealthCare)
UPDATE: Americans Gershkovich and Whelan, Russian assassin, freed in biggest post-Cold War prisoner swap
UPDATED 11:10 A.M. MOSCOW/ANKARA (Reuters) - Jailed U.S. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were among two dozen detainees from the United States, Russia and ...
Aug 01, 2024 A combination picture shows former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who was detained and accused of espionage, as he speaks inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing to consider an appeal to extend his detention, in Moscow, Russia June 20, 2019, and "The Wall Street Journal" reporter Evan Gershkovich, who stands trial on spying charges, inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing in Yekaterinburg, Russia June 26, 2024. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov and Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo
US weekly jobless claims rise to 11-month high
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits increased to an 11-month high last week, suggesting some softening in the labor market, though claims te...
Aug 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: People wait in line to enter the Nassau County Mega Job Fair at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York October 7, 2014. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Under new law, Illinois employers can't force workers to sit through anti-union meetings
Pritzker signs 'Worker Freedom of Speech Act' at organized labor convention ROSEMONT (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at curtailing the practice of "cap...
Aug 01, 2024 After signing legislation aimed at curtailing the practice of what sponsors dubbed “captive audience meetings,” in which workers are required to listen to their employer’s religious or political views, Gov. JB Pritzker poses with the bill at the Illinois AFL-CIO's biennial convention in Rosemont on Wednesday. Pritzker is flanked by AFL-CIO's national president Liz Shuler and the state organization’s president Tim Drea (left) and state Rep. Marcus Evans, D-Chicago (right), along with other proponents of the bill. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
