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US single-family housing starts plunge in March
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. single-family homebuilding tumbled in March after hefty gains in the prior month, and while demand for housing remains strong, a resurgence in mortgage rates is pushing pot...
Apr 16, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A "sold" sign is seen outside of a recently purchased home in Washington, U.S., July 7, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/File Photo
US House speaker says spending, sanctions bills to come Tuesday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said spending legislation will be released later on Tuesday with lawmakers still hammering out final figures, as the House prepares to vote on fou...
Apr 16, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A view of the U.S. Capitol dome, as Congress faces a deadline on Friday, March 22, to extend funding or face a partial shutdown of the federal government, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 21, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Israeli forces vow response to Iran's attack despite calls for restraint
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israelis awaited word on how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would respond to Iran's first-ever direct attack as international pressure for restraint grew amid fears of an esca...
Apr 16, 2024 Israeli armoured personnel carriers (APC) manoeuvre, near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Israel, April 15, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
UPDATE: Jury selection resumes in Trump's hush money criminal trial
UPDATED: 9:38 A.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) - The second day of jury selection in Donald Trump's historic hush-money trial got underway on Tuesday, as lawyers try to choose a panel of 12 residents of heavil...
Apr 16, 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump walks on the day of his trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, outside Trump Tower, in New York City, U.S. April 16, 2024. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
One person dead after crash in rural Delavan
DELAVAN, Ill. - A woman is dead after a two-vehicle accident in rural Delavan Monday afternoon. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley says the woman was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash just...
Apr 15, 2024
Father sentenced in relation to daughter's drowning death near Eureka last July
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. - A man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to a child endangerment charge relating to the drowning death of his daughter last year. 25 News reports Tyler Toft pleaded guilt...
Apr 15, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Severe weather threat across central Illinois on Tuesday. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Severe weather could cover central Illinois in the evening hours on Tuesday. 25 News First Alert Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins says severe thunderstorms are expected in a couple dif...
Apr 15, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Former Pere Marquette developers sentenced to prison time
UPDATED: 4/16 7:09 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Two former developers of the Pere Marquette Hotel in downtown Peoria, convicted of fraud and money laundering, have now been sentenced to federal prison time for...
Apr 15, 2024 (25 News)
Man arrested after hit-and-run incident early Sunday morning in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A man was taken to a local hospital in serious but stable condition after a hit-and-run incident early Sunday morning in downtown Peoria. Peoria Police say a vehicle was seen driving at...
Apr 15, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
'Rust' armorer sentenced to 18 months in fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin
SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - Hannah Gutierrez, the chief weapons handler for the Western movie "Rust," was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchin...
Apr 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the former armorer at the movie Rust, listens to closing arguments in her trial at First District Court in Santa Fe, N.M on Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2024. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican/Pool via REUTERS
