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Israeli forces intensify strikes on Rafah in southern Gaza
DOHA/TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Israeli forces bombed areas in the southern border city of Rafah where more than half of Gaza's population is sheltering on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netan...
Feb 08, 2024 Israeli tanks manoeuvre near the northern Gaza Strip border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Israel, February 7, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
UPDATE: Five US Marines confirmed dead in helicopter crash near San Diego
Updated at 7:41 a.m. (Reuters) -Five U.S. Marines were confirmed dead after their helicopter crashed in a remote area outside of San Diego while on a training flight during a fierce winter storm, the ...
Feb 08, 2024 Rescue crews assist with search efforts for a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter with five crew members aboard that went missing overnight, in southeast of Pine Valley, San Diego, California, U.S., February 7, 2024, in this screen grab taken from a social media video. Cal Fire/San Diego County Fire/via REUTERS
Threat to Bartonville schools found not credible. Here's what we know
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - Parents of Limestone Community High School and Oak Grove Elementary School students were alerted Wednesday night of an online threat that Bartonville Police have now determined was...
Feb 08, 2024 (File-25 News)
NFL-No known threats but Super Bowl security is tight - Mayorkas
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - There are no known threats to Sunday's Super Bowl in Las Vegas but security will be tight, officials told a press conference on Wednesday which played out at the same time someon...
Feb 07, 2024 U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks at a news conference about security for the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. February 7, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino
Day in court postponed for former lawmaker who checked into hospital on eve of corruption trial
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - On what was supposed to be the third morning of a weeklong corruption trial of former State Sen. Sam McCann, the onetime third-party candidate for governor ...
Feb 07, 2024 The Paul Findley Federal Courthouse in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
US Senate defeats border deal, but Ukraine, Israel aid may survive
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday defeated a bipartisan effort to bolster border security that had taken months to negotiate, but said they could still approve aid for ...
Feb 07, 2024 U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) holds up a challenge coin given to her by a border patrol officer during the weekly Democratic Caucus lunch press conference at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., February 6, 2024. REUTERS/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades
OSF HealthCare close to opening new cancer institute at St. Francis Peoria campus
PEORIA, Ill. - The new OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute will start taking its first patients later this month. The $237 million facility features proton therapy and brachytherapy to treat cancer, along...
Feb 07, 2024 Dr. James McGee, head of Radiation Oncology at OSF Healthcare, stands in front of the new proton therapy machine at the OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: One person injured after Peoria house fire Wednesday afternoon
UPDATED 5:24 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - One person was treated for injuries after a fire in Peoria's North Valley Wednesday afternoon. Peoria Fire crews arrived on scene around 1:30 p.m. at Northeast Perry n...
Feb 07, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATED: Man convicted of 2022 West Peoria double homicide
UPDATED 3:26 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A Mississippi man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted in the shooting deaths of his wife and stepson in September 2022. 35-year-old Rickey ...
Feb 07, 2024 Rickey Payne enters a Peoria County courtroom Wednesday prior to learning he was found guilty of two counts of murder in a September, 2022 double homicide in West Peoria. (TJ Carson, 1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Israel's Netanyahu rejects Gaza ceasefire offer, pledges to defeat Hamas
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday rejected a proposal for a Gaza war truce by Hamas, saying victory was within reach and only total defeat of the movement th...
Feb 07, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 7, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/Pool
