Category Archives: Top Stories
Caterpillar shares fall on equipment demand concerns despite earnings beat
(Reuters) -Caterpillar reported a double-digit rise in profit on Tuesday, beating Wall Street estimates on solid construction equipment sales in North America, but its shares slid in early trading on ...
Nov 01, 2023 A Caterpillar 777 autonomous mining truck is displayed during CES 2023, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 6, 2023. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/ File Photo
Biden kicks off rural America tour in Minnesota
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will tout $5 billion in new investments benefiting rural Americans during a visit on Wednesday to a family farm in Minnesota, the first stop in what the...
Nov 01, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden visits a family farm in Kankakee, Illinois, U.S., May 11, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
First evacuees leave Gaza as Israeli offensive intensifies
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A first group of injured evacuees from Gaza crossed into Egypt on Wednesday under a Qatari-mediated deal, Egyptian local media and a source at the border said, as Israeli for...
Nov 01, 2023 Palestinians search for casualties at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Fadi Whadi
Washington intersection considered dangerous will get a rebuild
WASHINGTON, Ill. - A long-planned safety improvement is officially coming for a road in Washington that has seen a considerable number of vehicle accidents - some of them fatal. Nofsinger Road will be...
Oct 31, 2023 (25 News)
UPDATE: US House Republicans' Israel-only aid bill opposed in Senate, by Biden
UPDATED: 8:32 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. senators from both parties voiced doubts on Tuesday about House Republicans' plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel by cutting Internal Revenue Se...
Oct 31, 2023 Palestinians search for casualties at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Anas al-Shareef
Israel strikes dense Gaza camp, says it kills Hamas commander
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli airstrikes hit a densely populated refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing at least 50 Palestinians and a Hamas commander, and medics struggled to treat th...
Oct 31, 2023 Palestinians search for casualties at the site of Israeli strikes on a residential building, in the central Gaza Strip October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot
US jury finds realtors liable for inflating commissions, awards $1.78 billion damages
(Reuters) -A U.S. jury on Tuesday found the National Association of Realtors and some residential brokerages, including units of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, liable to pay $1.78 billion in dam...
Oct 31, 2023 Townhomes line a street in Fairfax, on the morning the National Association of Realtors issues its Pending Home Sales for February report, in Virginia March 27, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing /File Photo
Walmart to upgrade 1,400 stores with $9 billion investment
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. retail chain Walmart on Monday said it is investing more than $9 billion over a two-year period to upgrade and modernize some U.S. stores with improved layouts, expanded prod...
Oct 31, 2023 FILE PHOTO: View of Walmart's newly remodeled Supercenter, in Teterboro, New Jersey, U.S., June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Siddharth Cavale/File Photo
UPDATE: Man faces charges for shooting of Illinois State Trooper in Springfield
UPDATED 6:11 P.M. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Chicago man described as a person of interest in the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend there, is now facing attempted murder charges for the shooting of an Il...
Oct 31, 2023 An Illinois State Police squad car is pictured in a file photo. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Peoria Fire Chief suggests homeowners keep up maintenance on chimneys as cold weather arrives
PEORIA, Ill. - In the wake of fire damaging a chimney in Peoria's East Bluff from the past weekend, the head of Peoria's Fire Department is offering advice to prevent a similar fate from occurring in ...
Oct 31, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
