Category Archives: Top Stories
Washburn pizza restaurant to close after four decade run
WASHBURN, Ill. - The owners of a Washburn pizza restaurant say they're closing the doors for good this month. The last day of nearly four decades in business for Sicily Pizza will be July 14th. In a F...
Jul 01, 2024 (Sicily Pizza Facebook)
Trump ally Steve Bannon begins prison term for contempt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Steve Bannon, an influential Donald Trump ally, reported to prison on Monday to serve a four-month sentence after he was convicted for defying a congressional subpoena from the c...
Jul 01, 2024 Steve Bannon, former top adviser to Donald Trump, speaks with media as he arrives to report to prison at the U.S. federal correctional institution in Danbury, Connecticut, U.S., July 1, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
US to criminally charge Boeing, seek guilty plea, sources say
(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department will criminally charge Boeing with fraud over two fatal crashes and ask the planemaker to plead guilty or face a trial, two people familiar with the matter said ...
Jul 01, 2024 Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun, Washington, D.C., June 18, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
US Supreme Court throws out rulings on state laws regulating social media
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a pair of judicial decisions involving challenges to Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas designed to restrict the power of soci...
Jul 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A person looks at his cell phone as he and others walk along the beach at twilight during the Labour Day long weekend in Ft Myers Beach, Florida August 31, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
UPDATE: US Supreme Court rules Trump has immunity for official, not private acts
UPDATED 10:13 A.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court found on Monday that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for official actions taken as president, but can for private acts, in a landmark ...
Jul 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump waves to supporters during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo
Palestinian militants fire rockets into Israel, tanks advance in Gaza
CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad fired a barrage of rockets into Israel on Monday as fighting raged in Gaza and Israeli tanks advanced deeper in parts of the enclave,...
Jul 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A Palestinian man holds his children as he walks next to buildings destroyed in an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 30, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
New Illinois state laws going into effect on July 1
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Across the country new state laws are taking effect starting Monday. Here in Illinois, a new law will allow undocumented immigrants to get an Illinois driver's license. The state g...
Jul 01, 2024 benkrut / Depositphotos.com
GasBuddy: Peoria gas prices steady ahead of 4th of July
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in Peoria have dropped a little over one cent a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.66 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 gas stations in Peoria. Prices in Pe...
Jul 01, 2024 Orin Zebest / CC
Beryl, earliest Category 4 hurricane on record, hurtles towards Caribbean
(Reuters) -The "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm Hurricane Beryl barrelled across the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday night toward the Caribbean's Windward Islands, where it is expected to bring life-th...
Jul 01, 2024 Men place metal protection on a shop window ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Beryl in Bridgetown, Barbados June 30, 2024. REUTERS/Nigel R Browne
Top Democrats rule out replacing Biden amid calls for him to quit 2024 race
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top Democrats on Sunday ruled out the possibility of replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee after a feeble debate performance and called on party members to focu...
Jul 01, 2024 Burlington County, New Jersey, June 29, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
