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Dunlap High School student killed in crash Saturday night
PEORIA, Ill. - A Dunlap High School Senior was killed in a crash late Saturday night in Peoria. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says 18-year-old Nevaeh Mitchell, of Princeville, was northbound on ...
May 06, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Peoria gas prices up slightly. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in Peoria have gone up three cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.76 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices in Peoria are just o...
May 06, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
UPDATE: Judge fines Trump again in criminal trial, warns of jail time
UPDATE 8:44 A.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal trial said on Monday he would hold the former president in contempt of court for a 10th time for violating a gag order...
May 06, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former President Donald Trump speaks with the media at Manhattan Supreme Court during the proceedings in his criminal trial at the New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York, Friday, May, 3, 2024. Curtis Means/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Dozens arrested in weekend of protests on U.S. campuses
(Reuters) -Police on Saturday arrested at least 25 pro-Palestinian protesters and cleared an encampment at the University of Virginia, the university said in a statement, as U.S. campuses braced for m...
May 05, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A coalition of University of Michigan students camp in the Diag to pressure the university to divest its endowment from companies that support Israel or could profit from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, on the University of Michigan college campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
Center For Prevention of Abuse hosting two-day conference on childhood trauma
PEORIA, Ill. - In April, Peoria's Center for Prevention of Abuse promoted Child Abuse Prevention and Sexual Assault Awareness month. Later this week, they're hosting a two-day conference on childhood ...
May 05, 2024
UAW workers ratify labor deal with Daimler Truck
(Reuters) -Members of the United Auto Workers on Saturday ratified a new labor contract with Daimler Truck that includes at least a 25% general wage increase over the four-year deal. The vote was 94.5...
May 05, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A person wearing a T-shirt that has "UAW member" written on it is pictured as the result of a vote comes in favour of the hourly factory workers at Volkswagen's assembly plant to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, during a watch party in Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S., April 19, 2024. REUTERS/Seth Herald/File Photo
Russia puts Ukraine's Zelenskiy on wanted list
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and put him on a wanted list, the state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, an announcement Ukra...
May 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a joint press conference with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 29, 2024. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo
Biden gives Katie Ledecky, Michelle Yeoh the Medal of Freedom
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A winner of seven Olympic gold medals, a leader of the Mississippi civil rights struggle and a pioneer of television's tabloid talk show genre are part of this year's class of Pr...
May 04, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Phil Donahue during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 3, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Peoria Rivermen and fans come together to celebrate team's 2024 President's Cup championship
PEORIA, Ill. - Players and fans of the Peoria Rivermen came together to celebrate the team's second Southern Professional Hockey League title in three years. The Rivermen won the President's Cup on Su...
May 03, 2024 Members of the Peoria Rivermen ride a fire truck on Jefferson St. during the parade for the 2023-24 SPHL President's Cup champions. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UN agencies prepare for Rafah incursion, warn of 'slaughter'
GENEVA (Reuters) -An Israeli incursion in Rafah would put the lives of hundreds of thousands of Gazans at risk and be a huge blow to the aid operations of the entire enclave, the U.N. humanitarian off...
May 03, 2024 Mourners react next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 3, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
