Category Archives: Top Stories
Iran's Guards attack 'espionage centers' in Iraq's Erbil - state media
(Reuters) -Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they attacked espionage centers and "gatherings of anti-Iranian terrorist groups" near Iraq's northern city of Erbil with ballistic missiles, Iranian state ...
Jan 15, 2024 futureatlas.com / CC
Iran seizes oil tanker involved in U.S.-Iran dispute in Gulf of Oman
DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran seized a tanker with Iraqi crude destined for Turkey on Thursday in retaliation for the confiscation last year of the same vessel and its oil by the U.S., Iranian state media rep...
Jan 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: St Nikolas ship X1 oil tanker involved in U.S.-Iran dispute in the Gulf of Oman which state media says was seized is seen in the Tokyo bay, Japan, October 4, 2020, in this handout picture. Daisuke Nimura/Handout via REUTERS
Kroger, Albertsons need more time to close on $25 billion proposed merger
(Reuters) - Grocers Kroger and Albertsons said on Monday that they plan to close the proposed $24.6 billion merger in the first half of Kroger's fiscal 2024 instead of early 2024. The merger, first an...
Jan 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The Kroger supermarket chain's headquarters is shown in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., June 28, 2018. REUTERS/Lisa Baertlein/File Photo
Joyce Randolph, Trixie on classic TV sitcom 'The Honeymooners', dies at 99 - media
(Reuters) - Actress Joyce Randolph, who played the peppy working-class Brooklyn housewife Trixie on "The Honeymooners" and was the last surviving cast member of the seminal 1950s sitcom starring Jacki...
Jan 15, 2024 Joyce Randolph (File-Television Academy Foundation via YouTube)
Peoria Manual must forfeit basketball victories over use of ineligible player
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Manual High School boys' basketball team must forfeit two victories from the current season. The Illinois High School Association says the forfeits are due to the use of an i...
Jan 15, 2024 (Peoria Public Schools)
'We will fight,' Harris says in MLK Day speech, warning of threats to US freedom
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris warned Americans that their freedom is under threat as she commemorated Martin Luther King Jr. Day in early-voting South Carolina ...
Jan 15, 2024 U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks outside the South Carolina State House in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S., January 15, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Wurm
Multiple people hospitalized after carbon monoxide leak at Peoria business Monday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - Multiple people were sent to the hospital after a carbon monoxide leak Monday morning at a Peoria business. 25 News reports that first responders arrived at Philippi-Hagenbuch, Inc. jus...
Jan 15, 2024 Philippi-Hagenbuch, Inc. (25 News)
Local mechanic gives advice on how to keep your car running in winter weather. Here's what he says
PEORIA, Ill. - If it's bone-chilling outside for you, the same can be said for your vehicle, and a local car maintenance expert has tips on keeping it running smoothly. Before you hit the road, Uftrin...
Jan 15, 2024 Matthew Klamert Photos
US Defense Secretary Austin released from hospital -Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital on Monday, two weeks after being hospitalized due to complications from prostate cancer treatment, the Pentagon...
Jan 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attends a welcome ceremony before an annual security meeting with South Korean Defence Minister Shin Won-sik at the Defence Ministry in Seoul, South Korea on November 13, 2023. JUNG YEON-JE/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Gas prices rise in central Illinois in the past week. Here are the prices
PEORIA, Ill. - Temperatures fell in central Illinois in the past week, but the opposite is true for the price of gas in the area. GasBuddy reports an increase of 5.8 cents in the past week for the ave...
Jan 15, 2024 Orin Zebest / CC
