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Runway reopens at New York's LaGuardia after fatal collision
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - One of two runways that has been closed since Sunday night at LaGuardia Airport after a fatal collision between an Air Canada Express plane and fir...
Mar 27, 2026 The wreckage of an Air Canada Express jet that collided with a ground vehicle on Monday at New York's LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York, U.S., March 24, 2026. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Update: Senate moves to fund most of Homeland Security after shutdown disrupts airports
Updated at 6:22 a.m. By Anusha Shah, Nolan D. McCaskill and Shivani Tanna March 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Friday that would finance most of the Department of Homeland Securi...
Mar 27, 2026 FILE PHOTO: A Department of Homeland Security officer directs passengers as they wait in long TSA lines amid a funding standoff that has forced 50,000 airport security officers to go without pay, causing delays at airports, at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, U.S., March 25, 2026. REUTERS/Antranik Tavitian
Former WTVP finance director dismissed from lawsuit
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - The former finance director for WTVP has been dismissed from a lawsuit filed by the station and its insurance company. 25 News reports Lin McLaughlin was part of the suit that...
Mar 26, 2026 (25 News)
Business dreams on display at Bradley University's Big Idea Innovation Expo
PEORIA, Ill. - The entrepreneurial hopes and dreams of Bradley students were on display Thursday afternoon. Nearly 20 student-led business ideas were on display at the Big Idea Innovation Expo at the ...
Mar 26, 2026 Abby Rybicki (center) speaks about her product, Flash Frames, at Bradley University's Big Idea Innovation Expo on March 26th, 2026. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Two arrested after alleged East Peoria home invasion and Peoria standoff
UPDATED 8:58 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Two men were arrested in Peoria after an alleged armed home invasion incident in East Peoria. East Peoria Police says 68-year-old Larry Wallace and 37-year-old Gabriel...
Mar 26, 2026
University funding overhaul bill advances in House despite U of I opposition
Article Summary The bill calls for annual increases in university funding of $135 million each year over the next several years, with priority for new money given to schools that are currently the mos...
Mar 26, 2026 Nicholas Jones, left, executive vice president of the University of Illinois System, testifies before a House Committee opposing a bill to overhaul the way Illinois funds public universities. Also testifying in favor of the bill are Southern Illinois University System President Daniel Mahoney, center, and Eastern Illinois University President Jay Gatrell. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Junk fees, child torture, tipped wage proposals among bills to clear committee
Article Summary Friday marks a House deadline to advance bills out of committee, so lawmakers were scrambling to advance their initiatives. More than 150 bills cleared House committees on Tuesday and ...
Mar 26, 2026 The Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Olympics-Only biological females, determined by gene screening, will be allowed in Games female events
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 26 (Reuters) - Only biological female athletes, whose gender will be determined by a one-time gene-screening test, will now be eligible to take part in female category eve...
Mar 26, 2026 Olympic rings are pictured outside the International Olympic Committee (IOC) during an Executive Board meeting at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 26, 2026. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Illinois House committee advances bill banning immigration detention centers near homes, schools
Article Summary An Illinois House committee advanced a bill that would prohibit the federal government from operating an immigration detention center within 1,500 feet of any home, school, daycare cen...
Mar 26, 2026 House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch presents his bill to limit where federal immigration centers can be placed in Illinois to a House committee on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jenna Schweikert)
Trump urges Iran to act quickly on ceasefire plan
By Parisa Hafezi, Alexander Cornwell and Kanishka Singh DUBAI/TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran on Thursday to "get serious" about a deal to end nearly ...
Mar 26, 2026 A view of a residential building damaged by a strike, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 23, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
