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UPDATE: Navalny aide confirms his death, unclear where his body is in Arctic Russian region
UPDATED 7:42 a.m. KHARP, Russia (Reuters) -Alexei Navalny's spokeswoman confirmed on Saturday that Russia's most prominent opposition leader was dead but said it was unclear where his body had been ta...
Feb 17, 2024 A woman (L) wearing a protective mask and sunglasses, believed to be Lyudmila Navalnaya, the mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, is accompanied into a car as she leaves the IK-3 penal colony, where her son served his jail term and where he died the day before, according to prison authorities, in the settlement of Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets Region, Russia February 17, 2024, in this still image taken from video. REUTERS TV via REUTERS
Biden calls toxic train derailment in Ohio town 'an act of greed'
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden criticized railroad operator Norfolk Southern on Friday during a trip to East Palestine, Ohio a year after a toxic derailment of the company's train plunged the sm...
Feb 16, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a visit to East Palestine for the first time since a fiery derailment of a Norfolk Southern train a year ago released more than a million gallons of hazardous materials and pollutants, in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S., February 16, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Man to be charged in shooting, fatal car accident
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County State's Attorney is filing charges against a man for shooting a gun and causing two accidents, one of them proved to be fatal. Jodi Hoos' office says Vanda Terrell, 51...
Feb 16, 2024 Vanda Terrell (2-3-24 photo-1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Former Peoria City Council member Lester Bergsten passes away
PEORIA, Ill. - A former engineer at Caterpillar perhaps best known for his decades on the Peoria City Council has died. The Davison-Fulton-Woolsey-Wilton Funeral Home says Lester Bergsten died last Sa...
Feb 16, 2024 Lester Bergsten (Davison-Fulton-Woolsey-Wilton Funeral Home)
Judge grants receivership over two more Petersen homes
URBANA, Ill. - Two more senior living facilities operated by Peoria-based Petersen Healthcare are operated by them no more. Court documents filed earlier this week in Central District federal court in...
Feb 16, 2024 (Petersen Health Care)
Alexander's Steakhouse to close Springfield location only
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - What could be considered a mainstay here in Peoria just couldn't make it in the state capitol. Social media posts from Alexander's Steakhouse in Springfield say the restaurant ther...
Feb 16, 2024 (Alexander's Steakhouse)
UPDATE: Trump hit with $354.9 million penalty, 3-year ban in NY civil fraud case
UPDATED 5:21 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump must pay $354.9 million in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth to dupe lenders, a New York judge ruled on Friday, handing the former...
Feb 16, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Justice Arthur Engoron of the state Supreme Court listen to opening arguments from his lawyer Alina Habba (not seen), during the trial of Trump, his adult sons, the Trump Organization and others in a civil fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James, at a Manhattan courthouse, in New York City, U.S., October 2, 2023 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg/File Photo
Biden says 'Putin and his thugs' caused Navalny's death
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for Alexei Navalny's death and warned there could be consequences, saying he was "not surprised" but "o...
Feb 16, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks after it was reported Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin's most formidable domestic opponent, fell unconscious and died at the "Polar Wolf" Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade jail term, during brief remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 16, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Two juveniles charged in Kansas City Super Bowl rally shooting
(Reuters) -Two juveniles were charged in a Kansas City family court in the deadly mass shooting that sparked chaos at a rally celebrating the Chiefs Super Bowl victory, authorities said on Friday. One...
Feb 16, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Police officers detain a person outside of Union Station following a shooting near an outdoor celebration of the NFL champion Chiefs' Super Bowl victory, in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. February 14, 2024 in this screen grab obtained from social media video. Alyssa Contreras/via REUTERS/File Photo
NWS: Peoria area receives high end of forecast snowfall
LINCOLN, Ill. - A good-sized portion of the Peoria area got what could be considered the high end of the projected snowfall Friday. The National Weather Service says Peoria got roughly three inches of...
Feb 16, 2024 A Peoria County Highway Department snow plow works to clear roads in the Dunlap area during a winter storm on January 9th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
