Category Archives: Top Stories
Surgeons in New York announce world's first eye transplant
(Reuters) - Surgeons in New York have performed the first-ever whole-eye transplant in a human, they announced on Thursday, an accomplishment being hailed as a breakthrough even though the patient has...
Nov 10, 2023 Aaron James of Hot Springs, Arkansas, poses with Dr. Eduardo D. Rodriguez after he underwent surgery for the world’s first whole-eye transplant as part of a partial face transplant at NYU Langone in an undated photograph. NYU Langone Health/Handout via REUTERS
US voices concern over killing of Palestinians as Gaza death toll tops 11,000
GAZA (Reuters) -The United States on Friday expressed growing concern about the rising Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip where health officials said the number killed in a five-week-old Israeli...
Nov 10, 2023 Smoke rises over Gaza as seen from southern Israel, November 10, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
County Board approves developing master plan for jail renovations
PEORIA, Ill. - A master plan will be developed that will identify and prioritize needs for renovation projects at the Peoria County Jail. The Peoria County Board Thursday approved a $275,000 contract ...
Nov 10, 2023 (File-Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD)
Fire chief: Arsons on the rise in Peoria, but so are arrests
PEORIA, Ill. - Arson fires are on the rise this year in Peoria. The Peoria Fire Department says there have been more than 150 of them so far in 2023, a five percent increase over last year, and leavin...
Nov 10, 2023 Midwest Communications
Lawmakers decline to extend private school scholarship tax credit program
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois lawmakers adjourned their fall veto session Thursday afternoon without renewing a controversial program that provided indirect state support for st...
Nov 10, 2023 Supporters of the Invest in Kids scholarship program for private schools rally outside the Illinois House of
Representatives chamber on Tuesday. Lawmakers adjourned their fall veto session Thursday without
voting to renew the program, meaning it will expire on Dec. 31. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew
Adams)
Illinois lawmakers approve plan to allow small-scale nuclear development
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Lawmakers on Thursday approved a proposal that would allow companies to develop new nuclear power generation in Illinois for the first time since 1987. Hous...
Nov 10, 2023 Rep. Lance Yednock, D-Ottawa, and Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Morris, watch as the final vote is counted for their bill that would partially lift the state’s moratorium on nuclear reactor construction. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Biden to register for South Carolina primary, seen as first test of re-election strength
(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden's re-election campaign on Friday will register for the South Carolina Democratic primary, the party's first official clash and an early enthusiasm test for a presid...
Nov 10, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks to United Auto Workers (UAW) union members in Belvidere, Illinois, U.S., November 9, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
US House Republicans aim to release shutdown-averting measure Saturday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives expect to release a stopgap spending measure on Saturday, aimed at averting a partial government shutdown by keeping fe...
Nov 10, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Newly-elected U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) walks from his office to the House floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 26, 2023.REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/File Photo
Former US astronaut Frank Borman dies at 95
(Reuters) - Former U.S. astronaut Frank Borman, who made history by commanding the first manned flight to circle the moon and later piloted Eastern Airlines as chairman in severe economic turbulence, ...
Nov 10, 2023 NASA astronaut Frank Borman in an undated photo. Borman served as the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the world. Courtesy NASA/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Palestinian officials say Israeli air strikes hit Gaza hospitals
GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli air strikes hit Gaza's biggest hospital, the Al Shifa, on Friday, killing one person and wounding others sheltering there, Palestinian officials said, one of several hospitals ...
Nov 10, 2023 Palestinians stand on the street after an Israeli raid, in Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, November 9, 2023. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
