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Israel orders people in more areas of Gaza's Rafah to evacuate
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel called on Saturday for Palestinians in more areas of Gaza's southern city of Rafah to evacuate and head to what it calls an expanded humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi, in a f...
May 11, 2024 May 11, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Prosecutors urge 40 years in prison for attacker of Pelosi's husband
(Reuters) - The man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home and clubbed her husband with a hammer should serve 40 years in prison for his conviction on federal offenses that amoun...
May 11, 2024 Courtroom deputy Ada Means reads the guilty verdict to convict David Wayne DePape of a hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a federal court in San Francisco, California, U.S., November 16, 2023, in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Vicki Behringer/File Photo
Labor-backed bill banning 'captive audience' meetings awaits House action
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - With two weeks left before the General Assembly's spring session is set to adjourn, negotiations continue on a labor union-backed initiative that would allo...
May 10, 2024 Sen. Robert Peters, D-Chicago, listens to questions from his Republican colleagues about the union-dubbed “Worker’s Freedom of Speech Act.” It advanced out of the Senate 38-18 last week and awaits action in the House. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Hamas says Gaza ceasefire efforts are back at square one
CAIRO (Reuters) -The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Friday efforts to agree to a ceasefire for the Gaza Strip were back at square one after Israel effectively rejected a proposal by internat...
May 10, 2024 May 9, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
OSF Healthcare planning merger with hospital in Dixon
PEORIA, Ill. - OSF Healthcare has entered into negotiations with Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital in Dixon, with a merger between the two entities anticipated. OSF announced Friday that a term sheet has...
May 10, 2024 (Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital)
Dozens arrested at Penn, MIT in latest crackdowns on Gaza protests
(Reuters) - Police dismantled encampments and arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania on Friday morning, in the la...
May 10, 2024 Police detain pro-Palestinian protesters as they block the entrance to the Stata Center parking garage at MIT while demanding the university divest from Israel, among other demands, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. May 9, 2024. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi
Victim in car vs. pedestrian crash on Route 24 in East Peoria identified
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - The identity of the person who died in a car versus pedestrian crash early Wednesday morning on Route 24 in East Peoria has been identified. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Han...
May 10, 2024
UN General Assembly backs Palestinian bid for membership
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member by recognizing it as qualified to join and recommending the...
May 10, 2024 FILE PHOTO: An extreme wide angle lens shows the United Nations General Assembly chamber from a viewing booth looking into the chamber at the U.N. Headquarters in New York, September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Eric Thayer/File Photo
Friday morning house fire in Peoria's East Bluff under investigation
PEORIA, Ill. - A fire in Peoria's East Bluff early Friday morning is under investigation. Peoria Fire crews arrived at the home between Archer and McClure near Wisconsin Ave. just after 4:30 A.M. to f...
May 10, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
A year from the deadline, Giannoulias suggests getting REAL ID now
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A year from now, if you're booking a flight and don't have a REAL ID, you'll need to bring another form of ID with you to the airport, or you'll have to make a trip to the DMV. Ill...
May 10, 2024 (Illinois Secretary of State)
