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US says fine warranted in Southwest Airlines holiday meltdown
(Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Department told Southwest Airlines a civil fine is warranted over the airline's December meltdown that led to 16,700 flight cancellations and the disruption of 2 mil...
Oct 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A Southwest plane is shown at the gate at Kahului Airport in Kahului, Maui, Hawaii, U.S., August 16, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Man convicted of murder for Peoria 2018 shooting death
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man who was already imprisoned at the time of his arrest has been convicted of murder. Peoria County Court records indicate Lionell Harris, 31, was found guilty Friday night by...
Oct 30, 2023 Lionell Harris (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail April 2022)
Soderstrom Castle's ready to entertain with "Addams Family" Halloween
PEORIA, Ill. - If you love the "Addams Family", Soderstrom Castle on Grandview Drive is the place to be on Halloween night in Peoria Heights. An impressive sound and light show began at the Castle ove...
Oct 30, 2023 Soderstrom Castle on Grandview Drive lit up for Halloween. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD--Julia Bradley)
UPDATE: Illinois man pleads not guilty in fatal stabbing of Muslim boy
UPDATED 2:47 P.M. (Reuters) - An Illinois man charged with murder and hate crimes for stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy to death and wounding his mother pleaded not guilty before a judge on Monday at a...
Oct 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Wadea Al-Fayoume, 6, a Muslim boy who according to police was stabbed to death in an attack that targeted him and his mother for their religion and as a response to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, poses in an undated family photograph obtained by Reuters on October 15, 2023. CAIR/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
White House unveils wide-ranging action to mitigate AI risks
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will take wider-ranging action on artificial intelligence (AI) on Monday by seeking to increase safety while protecting consumers, workers, and minority groups fro...
Oct 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters are placed on computer motherboard in this illustration taken, June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo
UPDATE: UAW reaches deal with GM, ending strike against Detroit automakers
UPDATED 5:49 P.M. (Reuters) - General Motors and the United Auto Workers (UAW) said they struck a tentative deal on Monday that will end the union's unprecedented six-week campaign of coordinated stri...
Oct 30, 2023 Union members picket General Motors (GM) which is in the midst of a tentative deal being reached with the United Auto Workers (UAW), which expanded its strike over the weekend to the General Motors (GM) engine plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, U.S. October 30, 2023. REUTERS/Seth Herald
Peoria area gas prices drop again this week
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Average gas prices in Peoria have dropped 7.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.44 a gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices...
Oct 30, 2023 Mike Mozart / CC
UAW-Ford deal nets union big wins on wages, benefits, investments
DETROIT (Reuters) -United Auto Workers leaders approved a tentative deal on Sunday with Ford that includes a pay hike of at least 30% for full-time workers and could more than double pay for others, i...
Oct 30, 2023 United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain joins UAW members who are on a strike, on the picket line at the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, U.S., September 15, 2023. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
'Friends' creators say Matthew Perry's death 'seems impossible'
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Family, friends and fellow celebrities on Sunday mourned the loss of Matthew Perry, the wise-cracking co-star of the 1990s hit television sitcom "Friends," a day after the actor...
Oct 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The cast of "Friends" appears in the photo room at the 54th annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles September 22, 2002. From the left are David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox Arquette, Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Fierce clashes in Gaza as Israeli forces expand ground offensive
GAZA (Reuters) -Palestinians in Gaza reported fierce air and artillery strikes early on Monday as Israeli troops backed by tanks pressed into the enclave with a ground assault that prompted more inter...
Oct 30, 2023 Palestinians check the damage at the site of Israeli strikes on houses, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 29, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
