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Public Works: Peoria roads continue to improve, but still slick
PEORIA, Ill. - Rain falling Tuesday morning has Peoria's main, arterial streets slushy and drivable. Peoria Public Works' Nick McMillion says residential streets remain icy and slick. Road conditions ...
Jan 23, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
US, British forces carry out new strikes in Yemen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and British forces carried out a fresh round of strikes on Monday in Yemen, targeting a Houthi underground storage site as well as missile and surveillance capabilities use...
Jan 22, 2024 Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4 being preparded to take off. Royal Air Force Typhoon aircraft have conducted precision strike operations against Houthi military targets in response to further attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, in this undated handout image. UK MOD/Handout via REUTERS
Staffing agencies not exempted from antitrust law, state Supreme Court rules
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Staffing agencies - a fast-growing industry that employs nearly a million Illinoisans - are not exempt from the state's antitrust law, the Illinois Supreme ...
Jan 22, 2024 Justice P. Scott Neville wrote the Illinois Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion that staffing agencies are not exempt from the state’s antitrust laws. (Capitol News Illinois illustration)
US Supreme Court lets Border Patrol remove Texas razor-wire fencing - for now
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to temporarily let U.S. Border Patrol agents cut or remove razor-wire fencing that Texas officials placed along part of the Republican-governed stat...
Jan 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Razor and concertina wire, installed by the Texas National Guard, is placed in Shelby Park at the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, U.S., January 16, 2024. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal
Biden, Harris target Trump, Republicans on abortion rights
WASHINGTON/WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday took aim at Republican curbs on abortion rights, a galvanizing issue for Democrats that t...
Jan 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at a virtual event on securing access to reproductive and other health care services at the first meeting of the interagency Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, in Washington, U.S., August 3, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Dexter King, younger son of Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 62
(Reuters) - Dexter Scott King, the younger son of the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died on Monday of prostate cancer, the King Center in Atlanta announce...
Jan 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Dexter Scott King, son of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. answers questions regarding the family rift over the selling of King Center property to National Park Service, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, after the Martin Luther King, Jr. annual commemorative service in Atlanta, Georgia January 16, 2006. REUTERS/Tami Chappell
Teenager injured after multiple shootings reported Sunday evening in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating multiple reported shootings from Sunday evening that led to serious injuries for a 14-year-old boy. A Peoria Police spokeswoman says officers were dispat...
Jan 22, 2024 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 1003 WMBD)
Haley makes final New Hampshire push to slow Trump's momentum
FRANKLIN, N.H. (Reuters) -Donald Trump's last remaining Republican opponent, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, was making a final push on Monday to convince New Hampshire voters to turn out and deli...
Jan 22, 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley holds 16 month-old Arthur Cowette during a campaign stop at T-Bones ahead of the New Hampshire primary election in Concord, New Hampshire, U.S., January 22, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
ADM shares dive 22% as accounting probe launched, CFO placed on leave
(Reuters) -Shares of Archer-Daniels-Midland slid 22% on Monday, the steepest drop in decades, after CFO Vikram Luthar was placed on administrative leave as the company investigates accounting practice...
Jan 22, 2024 Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM) logo is seen displayed in this illustration taken, April 10, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
US Navy declares two SEALs missing in Gulf of Aden as deceased
(Reuters) - Two U.S. Navy SEALs who went missing in the Gulf of Aden earlier this month during a raid on a boat carrying Iranian weapons have not been located following an exhaustive search and their ...
Jan 22, 2024 Carol Pyles / CC
