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TikTok bill still facing uncertain future in the Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C. - TikTok is sending an army of users to bombard senators with phone calls as they consider a House bill that could ban the app. A senate source tells FOX News that their office receiv...
Mar 18, 2024 angela n. / CC
Peoria gas prices nearly unchanged this week
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have risen 0.7 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.57 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Peoria's prices are 13....
Mar 18, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
Israeli troops raid Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital
JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli troops raided the compound of Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital early on Monday in an operation that Palestinian health authorities said caused multiple casualties and set of...
Mar 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises as displaced Palestinians take shelter at Al Shifa hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, November 8, 2023. REUTERS/Doaa Rouqa/File Photo
Trump eyeing Paul Manafort for 2024 campaign role, Washington Post reports
(Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is expected to include Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager he pardoned, as a campaign adviser later this year, the Washington Post rep...
Mar 18, 2024 Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump, departs after a hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington, DC, U.S., April 19, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Man dead after rural Pekin crash
PEKIN, Ill. - A man is dead after a crash Sunday afternoon in rural Tazewell County. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley says the single-vehicle crash happened around 2:30 p.m. near Pekin at the in...
Mar 17, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Bradley Braves Men's Basketball to play in NIT Wednesday night. Here's details and ticket info
UPDATED 10:20 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The Bradley Braves men's basketball team has officially punched its ticket to the National Invitation Tournament. The Braves received a 3-seed Sunday night, and will ...
Mar 17, 2024 (Bradley University)
Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade weaves its way through downtown Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - On a chilly and windy Sunday afternoon, hundreds lined the streets of downtown Peoria to celebrate being Irish. The annual St. Patrick's Day Parade by the St. Patrick Society of Peoria ...
Mar 17, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Bailey vs. Bost congressional race among GOP primaries to watch
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The March 19 primaries in Illinois may seem anticlimactic to those who are only interested in presidential politics. Democratic President Joe Biden and Repu...
Mar 17, 2024 Former state Sen. and failed GOP governor candidate Darren Bailey is pictured at his election night party in 2022. He is running for Congress in Illinois’ 12th District against incumbent Mike Bost. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Diversity, judicial appointments at issue in 1st District Supreme Court race
(Capitol News Illinois) - The race for one of the seven Illinois Supreme Court seats pits an appointed incumbent against a second-time candidate as the two Democrats vie for their party's nomination n...
Mar 17, 2024 Supreme Court Justice Joy Cunningham, left, and Appellate Court Justice Jesse Reyes, right, are vying for the Democratic nomination for the 1st District Supreme Court seat currently held by Cunningham. She was appointed to the seat when former Chief Justice Anne Burke retired in 2022. (Capitol News Illinois photo and illustration; Cunningham image from joyforjustice.com; Reyes image from justicereyes.com)
UNICEF says essential aid container looted at Haiti port
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The U.N. children's agency said on Saturday one of its aid containers at Haiti's main port, stocked with "essential items for maternal, neonatal and child survival," was loo...
Mar 17, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A satellite image shows shipping containers used to block access to heavy cranes, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 14, 2024, in this handout image. Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
