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Peoria Public Works discusses project to add parking spaces in Warehouse District
PEORIA, Ill. - The city of Peoria will soon start a new project where the main focus will be adding more parking in the Warehouse District. Peoria Public Works leaders held a public hearing Tuesday mo...
May 14, 2024 Peoria City Engineer Andrea Klopfenstein discusses plans to add parking spaces and other improvements on Depot Street in the Warehouse District at a public hearing on May 14th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Florida bus crash kills eight, leaves eight critically injured
(Reuters) - Eight people were killed and eight critically injured when a bus carrying laborers collided with a pickup truck, then overturned in northern Florida on Tuesday, authorities said. The worke...
May 14, 2024 Emergency services attend the scene after a bus carrying laborers to a melon farm overturned in a fatal crash near Dunnellon, Florida, U.S. May 14, 2024. Doug Engle/Ocala Star Banner/USA Today Network via REUTERS
House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson joins Trump in court, echoes criticisms
(Reuters) -The leading Republican in Congress, Mike Johnson, joined Donald Trump at the former president's hush money trial on Tuesday, and echoed his assertions that the four criminal cases against T...
May 14, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks during a press conference with House Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, U.S., May 7, 2024. REUTERS/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades//File Photo
Blinken, in Kyiv, says U.S aid arriving at 'challenging' time for Ukraine
KYIV (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a trip to Kyiv on Tuesday that part of a major U.S. aid package had arrived in Ukraine and that more wa...
May 14, 2024 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky greets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken prior to their meeting in Kyiv on May 14, 2024. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Pool via REUTERS
Man injured in S. Peoria shooting Monday
PEORIA, Ill. - A ShotSpotter alert, indicating 14 rounds were fired, led Peoria Police to a man who'd been shot Monday afternoon. Peoria Police say the man was found on W. Griswold Street just before ...
May 14, 2024
Israeli tanks push into Gaza's Rafah, as displaced civilians flee again
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential districts of the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering after b...
May 14, 2024 Palestinians gather near the remains of a car at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, May 14, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
UPDATE: Judge struggles to find jurors for US Senator Menendez's corruption trial
UPDATED 2:51 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -The judge overseeing U.S. Senator Robert Menendez's corruption trial struggled on Tuesday to find jurors who said they could fairly assess the New Jersey Democrat...
May 14, 2024 U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), arrives at Federal Court, for his bribery trial in connection with an alleged corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen, in New York City, U.S., May 14, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Woodford County to put sanctuary status up for vote again
EUREKA, Ill. - The Public Safety committee of the Woodford County Board has approved a resolution that once again asks the county what it will do with migrants sent from the US-Mexico border if they f...
May 14, 2024 (25 News)
Pekin council votes down home rule referendum
PEKIN, Ill. - Pekin Mayor Mary Burress cast the deciding vote Monday night as the city council voted against putting a referendum on the November ballot that would ask residents whether the city shoul...
May 14, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
As Medicaid redeterminations restart, about 73% of state's recipients remain enrolled
About 73 percent of Illinois' Medicaid recipients remain on the rolls after the first redetermination cycle following the COVID-19 pandemic, while approximately 660,000 recipients have been disenrolle...
May 13, 2024 Credit: Hush Naidoo Jade Photography, unsplash.com
