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Gazan hospital damaged in Israel raid, army says weapons seized
CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers raided a hospital in northern Gaza over several days this week, leaving a trail of rubble and upturned earth in the hospital grounds and outside the shattered entran...
Dec 17, 2023 Palestinians inspect damages following an Israeli raid at Kamal Adwan hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the northern Gaza Strip December 16, 2023. REUTERS/Fadi Alwhidifa
Time behind bars for Cardinal Becciu? Not any time soon, experts say
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -None of the six people who received jail sentences at the end of the Vatican's big corruption trial on Saturday will likely be spending time behind bars anytime soon and some p...
Dec 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Cardinal Angelo Becciu arrives at a consistory ceremony to elevate Roman Catholic prelates to the rank of cardinal, at Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, August 27, 2022. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo
Peoria home damaged by fire Saturday morning, cause under investigation
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria home had to be demolished early Saturday morning after a fire on W. Malone. Just before 7 a.m., firefighters found smoke and flames coming from windows on the first and second ...
Dec 16, 2023 D4E / CC
Veterans remembered through Wreaths Across America this weekend
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Wreaths Across America began in 1992, when a holiday wreath-making company from Maine donated extra wreaths to adorn the graves at Arlington National Cemetery. Fox News says in the ...
Dec 16, 2023 SC National Guard
WTVP denied public broadcasting funding pending investigation
PEORIA, Ill. - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is withholding grant money from Peoria public tv station WTVP, pending review of its legal and financial woes. CPB Spokesperson Brendan Daly says...
Dec 16, 2023 (25 News)
Longtime Peoria radio personality set to retire
PEORIA, Ill. - We think we can probably speak for most of our coworkers at Midwest Communications in Peoria when we say we don't want this to happen. But, while he admits it's hard to wrap his head ar...
Dec 15, 2023 Mix 106.9
Israeli armed forces killed 3 hostages by mistake -spokesperson
(Reuters) - The Israeli military mistakenly killed three hostages being held in Gaza by Hamas during an incident which is "under review", a military spokesperson said on Friday. The military said the ...
Dec 15, 2023 People hold signs as they protest following an announcement by Israel's military that they had mistakenly killed three Israeli hostages being held in Gaza by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 15, 2023. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
Giuliani ordered to pay $148 million to Georgia election workers in defamation trial
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Rudy Giuliani must pay more than $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers he defamed through false accusations that they helped rig the 2020 election agains...
Dec 15, 2023 Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives for his defamation lawsuit at the U.S. District Courthouse in Washington, U.S., December 15, 2023. The case was brought by two Fulton County, Georgia election workers after they were harassed following Giuliani's false election claims. REUTERS/Bonnie Cash/ File Photo
Peoria man sentenced to 12 years in prison for 2021 fatal crash in Knox County
GALESBURG, Ill. - A Peoria man will be in prison for the next 12 years after being sentenced for a fatal crash that killed a Mackinaw man. 41-year-old Travis Williams was sentenced on Monday after he ...
Dec 15, 2023 Brian Turner / CC
Dunlap man sentenced to federal prison on weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Dunlap man will spend the next two-and-a-half years in federal prison on gun charges. 29-year-old Donald Yarber was given a 30 month sentence on Wednesday, which is to be followed by ...
Dec 15, 2023 Midwest Communications
