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Autopsy conducted on woman found in river last Friday afternoon in Hollis Township
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - The cause of death of a Peoria woman who was found in a river last Friday afternoon has been revealed, but questions around her death remain. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood ...
May 28, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Lawmakers move to pause - then further regulate - carbon dioxide pipeline development
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - After state regulators rebuffed several proposed carbon transport projects over the past year, lawmakers have moved to formally ban new projects until the f...
May 28, 2024 Sen. Laura Fine, D-Glenview, and an aide watch as Sen. Michael Halpin, D-Rock Island, explains why he will vote no on her bill to regulate the carbon capture and sequestration industry. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
T-Mobile to buy US Cellular's wireless operations in $4.4 billion deal
(Reuters) -T-Mobile will buy almost all of regional carrier United States Cellular's wireless operations including customers, stores and 30% of its spectrum assets in a deal valued at $4.4 billion, th...
May 28, 2024 A T-Mobile store is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York, New York, U.S., May 20, 2019. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Gaza officials say Israeli tanks shell evacuation zone near Rafah, Israel denies it
CAIRO (Reuters) - Israel's military denied striking a tent camp west of the city of Rafah on Tuesday after Gaza health authorities said Israeli tank shelling had killed at least 21 people there, in wh...
May 28, 2024 A tank manoeuvres near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Israel, May 27, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
US consumer confidence improves; inflation concerns linger
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. consumer confidence unexpectedly improved in May after deteriorating for three straight months amid optimism about the labor market, but worries about inflation persisted an...
May 28, 2024 People carrying shopping bags walk inside the King of Prussia shopping mall, as shoppers show up early for the Black Friday sales, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, U.S. November 26, 2021. REUTERS/Rachel Wisniewski
UPDATE: Prosecutor says Trump hush money payment undermined 2016 election as trial nears end
UPDATED 3:19 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York prosecutor told jurors that Donald Trump engaged in a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 election and then tried to cover it up, as lawyers made their clos...
May 28, 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures, as his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 continues, at Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. May 28, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/Pool
Violent holiday weekend in the Windy City
CHICAGO, Ill. - It was another violent holiday weekend in Chicago, with at least 39 people shot, 9 killed, including a 5-year-old girl. Fox News reports 5-year-old Reign Ware was sitting in a car arou...
May 28, 2024 fergregory / Depositphotos.com
GasBuddy: Peoria gas prices on the rise again
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in Peoria have gone up 9.3 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.77 a gallon on Tuesday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 gas stations in Peoria. Local prices ar...
May 28, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
UPDATE: Judge declines to bar Trump from making comments about law enforcement
UPDATED 11:14 A.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday refused a request by prosecutors to impose a gag order barring Donald Trump from making inflammatory comments about law enforcement,...
May 28, 2024 Former U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters outside of his criminal trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York, U.S., May 28, 2024. JUSTIN LANE/Pool via REUTERS
Memorial Day ceremonies in Morton and Peoria honor those who served and those who gave it all
MORTON/PEORIA, Ill. - Tazewell County took the time on Memorial Day to honor those from the "Greatest Generation" who are still alive. 14 veterans of World War 2 took the stage at Morton High School's...
May 27, 2024 World War 2 veterans living in Tazewell County shared a stage at Morton High School on Memorial Day. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
