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Peoria bomb squad helps investigate threat turned hoax at Galesburg store
GALESBURG, Ill. - Peoria Police's bomb squad helped a bomb threat in Galesburg result in an all-clear. Galesburg Police Chief Russ Idle says the bomb threat was reported to one of the city's two Hy-Ve...
Jan 01, 2024 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Israel's Supreme Court strikes down disputed law that limited court oversight
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel's Supreme Court on Monday struck down a highly disputed law passed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government that rolled back some of the high court's po...
Jan 01, 2024 President of the Supreme Court of Israel Esther Hayut and all fifteen justices assemble to hear petitions against the reasonableness standard law in the High Court in Jerusalem, on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. DEBBIE HILL/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Peoria Police investigating early New Years Day shooting
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are looking for suspects after a woman was shot in the foot just after the start of the new year Monday morning. Peoria Police say it happened around 12:10 a.m. near Kerse...
Jan 01, 2024 Midwest Communications
NASCAR Hall of Famer Cale Yarborough dies at age of 84
(Reuters) -Cale Yarborough, who won three consecutive NASCAR Cup championships in a Hall of Fame racing career that included four Daytona 500 wins, died at age 84, NASCAR said on Sunday. The news come...
Jan 01, 2024 Fellow three-time NASCAR champion Cale Yarborough (R) congratulates Jimmie Johnson on his third NASCAR championship during the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards Ceremony in New York December 5, 2008. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
Las Vegas standup comic Shecky Greene dies at 97
(Reuters) - Shecky Greene, a comic legend of the old-school Las Vegas lounge acts who rubbed elbows with yesteryear entertainment greats, died on Sunday, his widow told the media. His wife of 41 years...
Jan 01, 2024 Shecky Greene (The Hollywood Palace via YouTube)
US sinks 3 ships, kills 10 after Houthi Red Sea attack
COPENHAGEN/DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) -U.S. helicopters repelled an attack by Iran-backed Houthi militants on a Maersk container vessel in the Red Sea, sinking three ships and killing 10 militants, accordi...
Jan 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: CMA CGM Louis Bleriot and a Maersk Line container ship pass through the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt July 7, 2021. Picture taken July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Baby born at home now first baby of 2024 at OSF St. Francis
UPDATED 2:12 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. - Believed to be the first baby of 2024 in Peoria has been born, but is receiving some important medical care. OSF Saint Francis Medical Center says Marsaiah Travon McGe...
Jan 01, 2024 Marsaiah Travon McGee, Jr. (OSF HealthCare)
UPDATE: East Peoria grad dies in crash in Wisconsin
UPDATED 1/2 4:25 p.m. AUBURNDALE, Wis. - A graduate of East Peoria High School is dead after a car crash in Wisconsin last week. 25 News through sister station WEAU reports Michael Baugh, 25, died las...
Jan 01, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
First Powerball drawing of 2024 to take place Monday night as jackpot nears one billion dollars
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Someone could have millions of reasons to start the new year on a good note. Monday is the next drawing in the multi-state Powerball lottery game. The estimated jackpot is $810 mil...
Jan 01, 2024 (Powerball)
Ukraine, Russia accuse each other of early New Year's Day attacks
(Reuters) -Ukraine's shelling of the city of Donetsk on Monday killed four people, a Russian-installed official in the eastern region of Ukraine said, while Russia's air attacks on several Ukrainian r...
Jan 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Head of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin attends a news conference in Donetsk, Ukraine February 23, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko/File Photo
