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US job openings slide to three-year low as demand for labor gradually eases
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - U.S. job openings fell to a three-year low in March, while the number of people quitting their jobs declined, signs of easing labor market conditions that over time could aid the...
May 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign with a QR code is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Reservoir Gifted Academy unveils new Outdoor Classroom
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's Reservoir Gifted Academy has a new classroom...outside. On Wednesday, Reservoir Gifted Principal Susan Martin thanked alumni, students and school administrators for their part ...
May 01, 2024 Principal Susan Martin speaking at the ribbon cutting of Reservoir Gifted Academy's new Outdoor Classroom.
(1470/100.3 WMBD--Julia Bradley)
Man injured by glass after shots fired in Peoria's East Bluff Tuesday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Police are investigating a shooting from Tuesday night in Peoria's East Bluff that sent a man to the hospital Peoria Police say ten rounds were fired in the area of the 400-block of Eas...
May 01, 2024
UPDATE: Blinken says US cannot support Rafah assault without humanitarian plan
UPDATED 2:12 P.M. ASHDOD, Israel (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday he has still not seen a plan for Israel's planned offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that...
May 01, 2024 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 1, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool
After 3 years, state poised to enforce law aiming to end lending discrimination
SPRINGFIELD - In 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Community Reinvestment Act, a federal law that sought to wipe away the last vestiges of racial discrimination and redlining in Am...
May 01, 2024 Mario Treto Jr., secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, testifies before the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules in April about the final adoption of rules to implement the 2021 Illinois Community Reinvestment Act. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Comcast drops Bally Sports regional sports networks as agreement not reached
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. - Sports fans looking to watch their favorite teams lost an option to do so overnight Tuesday. In a social media post, Diamond Sports Group announced that Comcast has rejected a pr...
May 01, 2024 An on-screen message replaces Bally Sports Midwest on Comcast cable lineups in the Peoria-area. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene to force vote to oust US House Speaker Johnson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a conservative firebrand, Wednesday on Wednesday called for a vote to oust Republican Mike Johnson as speaker of the U.S. House ...
May 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) yells out at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) as Jeffries introduces newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) after Johnson was elected to be the new Speaker at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 25, 2023. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Area students perform in downtown Peoria during GMB Arts in Education Spring Celebration
PEORIA, Ill. - This time each year, you start seeing a lot of school buses in downtown Peoria...and music coming from the Peoria County Courthouse Plaza. Thousands of students are again performing thi...
May 01, 2024 Students singing at the Peoria County Courthouse Plaza with the Gerald M. Brookhart Arts in Education Spring Celebration.
(GMB Arts in Education Spring Celebration Facebook page)
Wednesday morning fire damages home in East Peoria
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Two animals and a resident were able to escape a house fire in East Peoria Wednesday morning without injury. East Peoria Fire says crews were called to the two-story home just afte...
May 01, 2024 Midwest Communications
Harvey Weinstein expected in New York court after rape conviction overturned
(Reuters) - Harvey Weinstein is due to appear in state court in Manhattan on Wednesday for the first time since New York's highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction last week. The hearing befor...
May 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Harvey Weinstein arrives at New York Criminal Court for another day of jury deliberations in his sexual assault trial in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., February 24, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
