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Nearly 200 more Palestinians killed as Israel forges on with Gaza assault
CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of fleeing Palestinians sought shelter on Friday as Israeli tanks pushed through the central Gaza Strip, with nearly 200 people reported killed in the past 24 h...
Dec 29, 2023 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip December 29, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Fraudulent credit card readers found at West Peoria business. Here's what we know
WEST PEORIA, Ill. - Fraudulent credit card readers have been found at a West Peoria business. The Peoria County Sheriff's Office reports deputies were called Thursday to Haddad's Grocery Store after t...
Dec 29, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Peoria Police plans to upgrade radios, and encrypt scanner traffic. Here's why
PEORIA, Ill. - It may soon become harder for you - and us - to follow along with Peoria Police activity. More than three-million dollars has been set aside in the city budget for the police department...
Dec 29, 2023 Police scanners and other communication radios can be seen in use at WMBD News' Traffic One center. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Exclusive-Drugmakers set to raise U.S. prices on at least 500 drugs in January
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Drugmakers including Pfizer, Sanofi and Takeda Pharmaceutical plan to raise prices in the United States on more than 500 drugs in early January, according to data analyzed by healt...
Dec 29, 2023 Illustration photo shows various medicine pills in their original packaging in Brussels, Belgium August 9, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Illustration/File Photo
Swatting attacks on lawmakers increasing in the past week
NAPLES, Fla. (FOX News) - Lawmakers have been the target of "swatting" at their homes in the past week. Swatting involves targeting an individual by calling in a false police report for a violent crim...
Dec 29, 2023 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
Farewell, Randy Rundle
PEORIA, Ill. - Many of us who have been in radio for some period of time remember how we got in to it - and, how people tried to talk us out of it. For Randy Rundle at our station Mix 106.9, it was th...
Dec 29, 2023 Randy Rundle, in white, laughs with guests Friday morning on his last day before retirement from Mix 106.9. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Maine elections official disqualifies Trump from presidential primary ballot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Maine on Thursday disqualified Donald Trump from the state ballot in next year's U.S. presidential primary election, becoming the second state to bar the former president for his...
Dec 29, 2023 Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, U.S. December 19, 2023. REUTERS/Scott Morgan
UPDATE: Russia's biggest air attack of war kills 31 in Ukraine, officials say
UPDATED 12:45 P.M. KYIV (Reuters) -Russia unleashed its biggest air attack of the war on Ukraine on Friday, killing 31 civilians, wounding more than 160 others and hitting cities and infrastructure ac...
Dec 29, 2023 Firefighters work at a site of a warehouse heavily damaged duringa Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine December 29, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
France, Germany, UK and US condemn Iran's increase in uranium enrichment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -France, Germany, Britain and the United States on Thursday condemned an increase by Iran in the production rate of highly enriched uranium of up to 60% purity, close to the level...
Dec 29, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The Iranian flag flutters in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) organisation's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, June 5, 2023. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo
UPDATE: Baby saved from Gaza rubble after mother killed in Israeli strike
UPDATED 8:22 a.m. GAZA (Reuters) - The rescuers in orange vests shouted as they reached a baby girl still alive in the rubble of an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip's Rafah city after yet another ...
Dec 29, 2023 Palestinian girl Mariam Abu Akel and her brother Hamed, who were rescued from under the rubble of a house hit by an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, receive medical attention inside an ambulance, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 29, 2023. REUTERS/Arafat Barbakh
