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Peoria-based effort to donate emergency vehicles to Ukraine nears two-year anniversary
PEORIA, Ill. - As the war in Ukraine will soon move into its third year of conflict, so does an effort in Peoria to help support Ukrainians on the front lines against Russian forces. US Ambulances for...
Feb 20, 2024 A former AMT ambulance is delivered to Ukraine in 2022. (File-OSF HealthCare)
US Supreme Court wrestles with bid to challenge debit card 'swipe fee' rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday grappled with a North Dakota convenience store's challenge to a government regulation on debit card "swipe fees" - a case that could make i...
Feb 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Bank debit and credit cards are photographed in this illustration picture at an office in Frankfurt, Germany, March 17, 2016. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Three juveniles arrested for various incidents following Monday robbery attempt
PEORIA, Ill. - Three juveniles are in custody after Peoria Police arrested them for an alleged robbery Monday, and pinned two of them to charges in other cases. Peoria Police say it started around noo...
Feb 20, 2024 (File-25 News)
US military drone shot down near Yemen, US officials say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. military Mq-9 drone was shot down near Yemen by Iran-backed militants, two U.S. officials said on Tuesday, the second time such a shoot down has taken place in recent mon...
Feb 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone sits in a hanger at Amari Air Base, Estonia, July 1, 2020. REUTERS/Janis Laizans/File Photo
Peoria man's conviction for 2022 shooting thrown out by appellate court. Read the ruling here
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois appellate court has thrown out a Peoria man's conviction related to a 2022 shooting. The Fourth District Appellate Court ruled last week that now-31-year-old Kevin Boyc...
Feb 20, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois Department of Corrections)
US again vetoes UN action in Israel-Hamas war, blocks ceasefire call
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States on Tuesday again vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, blocking a demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefir...
Feb 20, 2024 Algeria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Sofiane Mimouni speaks before a vote on a U.N. Security Council resolution to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., February 20, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Trump says he'll appeal NY civil fraud verdict
NEW YORK CITY - As Donald Trump's legal team prepares to appeal the $355 million civil fraud ruling against him, there are questions over what exactly is at stake. Trump attorney Alina Habba insists t...
Feb 20, 2024 Matt Johnson / CC
UPDATE: 'We don't anoint kings': Nikki Haley pledges to continue campaign, defying Trump
UPDATED: 11:40 a.m. GREENVILLE, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican candidate Nikki Haley pledged to press ahead with her long-shot presidential bid on Tuesday, saying "we don't anoint kings in this...
Feb 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign visit ahead of the Republican presidential primary election in Camden, South Carolina, U.S. February 19, 2024. REUTERS/Randall Hill
WHO completes second Gaza hospital evacuation amid fighting
GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it had completed a second evacuation mission from Gaza's Nasser Hospital but voiced concern for nearly 150 patients and medics who remai...
Feb 20, 2024 Israeli soldiers operate, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in a location given as Nasser Hospital in Gaza in this picture released on February 18, 2024. Israel Defense Forces/Handout via REUTERS
Family of late Peoria Police Officer donates his union badge
PEORIA, Ill. - A family is honoring their fallen loved one - a retired Police Officer - by remembering what he devoted his career to doing.. "We would like to thank Officer Robert W. Molleck for servi...
Feb 19, 2024 (Peoria Police via Facebook)
