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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
Peoria home demolished after fire Tuesday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a home on Tonti Circle on reports of a fire Tuesday night. Fire Battalion Chief Larry Carter says when crews arrived around 8:20 p.m., they found heav...
May 01, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Police move in to quell clashes at Los Angeles pro-Palestinian campus protest
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Violent clashes erupted early on Wednesday morning on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles between pro-Palestinian protesters and a group of counter-demons...
May 01, 2024 Demonstrators guard their encampment during a protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 1, 2024. REUTERS/David Swanson
Hamas official says Blinken ceasefire comments are attempt to pressure the group
CAIRO (Reuters) - Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said on Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is blaming the delay of a Gaza ceasefire agreement on the Palestinian group unfairl...
May 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reacts, as he speaks to the press in front of a truck with humanitarian aid bound for Gaza at the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization in Amman, Jordan, April 30, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/File Photo
UPDATE: Coroner identifies 18-year-old shot and killed in Peoria
UPDATE 9:19 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the young man who was shot and killed Tuesday night in Peoria. Harwood says the victim is 18-year-old MikeQuese Taylo...
May 01, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UN warns Israel assault on Gaza's Rafah on 'immediate horizon'
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations on Tuesday warned that an Israeli assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip was "on the immediate horizon" and that "incremental" progress by Israel on aid access...
Apr 30, 2024 Humanitarian aid falls through the sky towards the Gaza Strip, after being dropped from an aircraft, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Israel, April 30, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
Columbia University threatens to expel protesters occupying building
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Columbia University officials threatened to expel activists on Tuesday after they seized and occupied an academic building as the standoff between administrators and student protes...
Apr 30, 2024 A student protester parades a Palestinian flag outside the entrance to Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University, in New York, U.S., April 30, 2024. Mary Altaffer/Pool via REUTERS
Biden administration takes step to make marijuana use a less serious crime
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday moved to make marijuana use a less serious federal crime, taking a step to reclassify the drug out of a category that includes heroin in a...
Apr 30, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A worker organizes cannabis flowers before the opening of the first legal recreational marijuana dispensary located in the East Village in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., December 29, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Rivermen announce plans for parade and celebration for President's Cup champions
PEORIA, Ill. - Plans for a party for the Southern Professional Hockey League champions Peoria Rivermen have been made. A championship parade will take place Friday at 5:30 P.M. The parade will start a...
Apr 30, 2024 (Peoria Rivermen)
