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UPDATE: UAW, Stellantis reach tentative deal to end strike, Illinois plant may reopen -sources
UPDATED 12:07 P.M. (Reuters) -United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement with Stellantis on Saturday, a deal that is pending approval from the union's top leaders and includes reopening the aut...
Oct 28, 2023 File photo: A general view of Stellantis' Belvidere Assembly Plant, in Belvidere, Illinois, U.S., June 27, 2023. REUTERS/Bianca Flowers/File photo
National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is Saturday, with special drop-off locations throughout the area. Here's where
PEORIA, Ill. - There are ways you can do it all year, but Saturday, authorities are making an annual special effort to make sure what's in your medicine cabinet is safe. Saturday is "National Prescrip...
Oct 28, 2023 Eric Hunsaker / CC
Gaza under blackout as Israel reports 'good progress' in war against Hamas
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Gaza was largely cut off from the outside world on Saturday after Israel expanded air and ground operations and suggested its long-promised ground offensive against the Hamas mili...
Oct 28, 2023 A child walks at the site of an Israeli air strike on a house, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 27, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Teen shot in leg Friday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say a teen is hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after a shooting Friday night. Police say the 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg after 6:00 P.M. on West Ann...
Oct 28, 2023 Midwest Communications
Russia says Israel's Gaza bombardment is against international law
(Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Israel's bombardment of Gaza runs counter to international law and risks creating a catastrophe that could last decades. Lavrov made th...
Oct 28, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Smoke is rising after an Israeli strike on Gaza seen from a viewpoint in Southern Israel October 24, 2023. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura/File Photo
UPDATE: U.S. army reservist suspected in Lewiston, Maine, shootings found dead, likely suicide
UPDATED 6:39 A.M. 10/28/23 LEWISTON, Maine (Reuters) - A U.S. Army reservist accused of spraying a bowling alley and bar with gunfire in Lewiston, Maine, killing 18 people, was found dead after a 48-h...
Oct 27, 2023 A man identified as a suspect by police points what appears to be a semiautomatic rifle, in Lewiston, Maine, U.S., October 25, 2023. Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office via Facebook/Handout via REUTERS
Maine shooting victims: Pipefitter who loved wrestling, father and son at bowling league
LEWISTON, Maine (Reuters) -A father and son out for a night of bowling, a bar manager at his place of work and a pipefitter playing in a cornhole tournament were among those killed when a gunman opene...
Oct 27, 2023 Law enforcement members work at the site of a deadly mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, U.S. October 26, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
NCAA eliminates path to postseason that Bradley Braves used in 2022-23 season. Here's what we know
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The 2022-23 Bradley Braves' men's basketball campaign was rewarded with an automatic bid to the National Invitational Tournament, based on the regular season Missouri Valley Confe...
Oct 27, 2023 (TJ Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
First week of veto session wraps up with little legislative movement
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Lawmakers are heading back to their districts after three days of legislative session in Springfield this week that saw little movement on several major ini...
Oct 27, 2023 Supporters of the Invest in Kids scholarship tax credit program rally in the Capitol rotunda this week in an effort to persuade lawmakers to extend the program before its scheduled end-of-year expiration. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Sam Bankman-Fried acknowledges 'mistakes' but testifies he did not defraud anyone
NEW YORK -Sam Bankman-Fried, testifying in his own defense at his fraud trial on Friday, acknowledged that a "lot of people got hurt" when the FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded collapsed, but sai...
Oct 27, 2023 FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is questioned by Assistant U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon as he testifies in his fraud trial over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, at federal court in New York City, U.S., October 26, 2023, in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
