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Man arrested in connection to South Peoria shooting death in August 2023
PEORIA, Ill. - The execution of a search warrant Tuesday morning led to the arrest of a homicide from last August in Peoria. Peoria Police say 24-year-old Rashaard Nunn was taken into custody just bef...
Jul 02, 2024
New entertainment center slated for former Round1 location at Northwoods Mall
PEORIA, Ill. - A new entertainment center will be coming to Northwoods Mall in Peoria. 25 News reports Tilted 10 will take over the space left vacant by the closure of Round One in May of last year. T...
Jul 02, 2024 (Facebook/Round 1 Northwoods)
Peoria Park District's new July 3rd event focuses on family fun
PEORIA, Ill. - A newly reimagined event is happening at Peoria's Glen Oak Park on Wednesday, July 3rd, called "The Streets Belong To Me: Glen Oak Park". Peoria Park District's Emily Cahill says there ...
Jul 02, 2024 (Peoria Park District)
UPDATE: Judge delays Trump's hush money sentencing to Sept. 18
UPDATED 2:22 P.M. NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A New York judge on Tuesday delayed Donald Trump's sentencing for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star until...
Jul 02, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event, in Racine, Wisconsin, U.S. June 18, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
US job openings increase; trend still slowing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. job openings rose in May after posting outsized declines in the prior two months, but the trend remained consistent with an easing in labor market conditions that could pave...
Jul 02, 2024 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign with a QR code is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
UPDATE: U.S. Supreme Court won't hear challenge to Illinois' assault weapons ban, for now
UPDATED 3:39 P.M. SPRINGFIELD - The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will not immediately review Illinois' assault weapons ban, leaving the law in place at least until challenges to the law hav...
Jul 02, 2024 The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Illinois’ assault weapons ban on Tuesday, but Justice Clarence Thomas said in a separate statement he is hopeful the high court will hear the case once lower courts have rendered final decisions – and he is skeptical that it will withstand constitutional scrutiny. (Highlights added to an excerpt of Thomas’ statement)
Man found unresponsive at Peoria Co. Jail, later pronounced dead
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - A detainee in the Peoria County Jail is dead after being found unresponsive in a holding cell overnight. Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins says around 12:45 a.m. Tuesday, a cor...
Jul 02, 2024 (File-Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD)
At least 87 people feared dead in stampede at religious event in India, NDTV reports
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -At least 87 people were feared dead in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, broadcaster NDTV reported. The stampede hap...
Jul 02, 2024 Family members react outside the Etah Hospital after a stampede at a religious event in Etah, Uttar Pradesh, India, July 2, 2024. ANI/ Via Reuters TV
Thousands flee their homes as Israeli forces bomb southern Gaza
CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces bombarded several areas of the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday and thousands of Palestinians fled their homes in what could be part of a final push of Israel's int...
Jul 02, 2024 Palestinian children, who fled the eastern part of Khan Younis after they were ordered by Israeli army to evacuate their neighborhoods, ride on a pickup truck loaded with belongings, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 2, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Beryl sets precedent for 'very dangerous hurricane season,' world met agency says
GENEVA (Reuters) - Hurricane Beryl, which has strengthened to a Category 5 storm, is setting the tone for a "very dangerous" hurricane season, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesd...
Jul 02, 2024 Hurricane Beryl is seen from Space, July 1, 2024, in this screengrab obtained from a handout video. International Space Station via X/Handout via REUTERS
