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US investigators probing whether Boeing 737 MAX panel was properly bolted
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said late on Monday it could not yet tell whether a recovered cabin panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 ...
Jan 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX, which was forced to make an emergency landing with a gap in the fuselage, is seen during its investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Portland, Oregon, U.S. January 7, 2024. NTSB/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Pekin Council welcomes new member
PEKIN, Ill. - Pekin City Council welcomed its newest member Monday night. Chris Onken, a gym teacher and coach at Pekin High School, takes over the seat vacated by Becky Cloyd in November. Onken was s...
Jan 09, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Defendant in Trump case accuses DA, prosecutor of 'improper' relationship
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A co-defendant in former U.S. President Donald Trump's Georgia 2020 election interference case on Monday accused Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the case's speci...
Jan 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump campaigns, in Clinton, Iowa, U.S., January 6, 2024. REUTERS/Cheney Orr/File Photo
UPDATE: Peoria Public Works says main streets drivable while residential street clearing is underway
UPDATED 4:52 P.M. The clearing of residential streets in Peoria is underway. Peoria Public Works Deputy Director Sie Maroon says a break in snowfall Tuesday afternoon allowed crews to start plowing an...
Jan 09, 2024 Peoria snowplow on the streets following the first real snow storm of 2024. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD--TJ Carson)
Peoria metro area expected to receive six inches of snow through Wednesday morning. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - The first winter storm of the season will come to central Illinois Monday night, and it may not be the only system this week. 25 News First Alert Meteorologist Chuck Collins tells WMBD'...
Jan 08, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Biden denounces 'poison' of white supremacy in South Carolina Black church
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday denounced white supremacy and political violence in a direct message to Black voters during a visit to South Carolina aimed at ...
Jan 08, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden gestures as he delivers a speech during a campaign event at the Mother Emanuel AME Church, the site of the 2015 mass shooting, in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., January 8, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Biden will not fire Pentagon chief Austin, Trump calls for removal
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden does not plan to fire Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after his failure to disclose his hospitalization last week, officials said on Monday, as ...
Jan 08, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin looks on during a joint press conference with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at Israel's Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, Israel December 18, 2023. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura/File Photo
Trump says he will attend federal appeals court arguments on presidential immunity
(Reuters) -Donald Trump said he will be attending an appeals court hearing regarding the scope of his presidential immunity in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, in comments in a Truth Social post on Monday....
Jan 08, 2024 Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event, in Clinton, Iowa, U.S., January 6, 2024. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
Local gas prices still falling in the new year, below $3 a gallon
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices continue to fall in the Peoria area. Gasbuddy says the average price at the pump dropped 8.4 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $2.95 a gallon on Monday. Prices in Pe...
Jan 08, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
US investigators retrieve 737 MAX jet panel, Boeing shares sink
SEOUL/LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. officials have recovered a panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines airliner triggering a partial grounding of Boeing's 737 MAX 9 and sending shares in the plane ...
Jan 08, 2024 National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Investigator-in-Charge John Lovell examines the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX, which was forced to make an emergency landing with a gap in the fuselage, in Portland, Oregon, U.S. January 7, 2024. NTSB/Handout via REUTERS.
