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Time running out for Trump's Republican 2024 rivals as they face off in second debate
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump's rivals are running out of time to halt his march to the 2024 Republican presidential nomination unless one emerges as a clear alternative i...
Sep 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum debate at the first Republican candidates' debate of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. August 23, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Iraq wedding fire kills more than 100 as relatives identify bodies
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A fire ripped through a packed wedding hall in northern Iraq late on Tuesday, killing more than 100 people in a Christian town that had survived Islamic State occupation as aut...
Sep 27, 2023 A view of a site following a fatal fire at a wedding celebration, in the district of Hamdaniya in Iraq's Nineveh province, Iraq, September 27, 2023. REUTERS/Abdullah Rashid
Peoria places limits on tobacco and nicotine sales
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria is putting new limits on tobacco sales, with higher fees and the elimination of unregulated synthetic nicotine. Peoria City Council on Tuesday night approved three measures; one ...
Sep 27, 2023 Lindsay Fox / CC
UPDATE: Biden says government shutdown not inevitable
UPDATED 2:48 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that a government shutdown is not evitable, but that if there is one, a lot of vital work could be impacted in science...
Sep 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Phoenix Awards Dinner at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, U.S., September 23, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Baseball-Orioles' star third baseman Brooks Robinson dies at 86
(Reuters) - Brooks Robinson, a virtuoso third baseman who was known as "The Human Vacuum Cleaner" because of his defensive prowess at the position during a Hall of Fame career spent entirely with Majo...
Sep 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Sep 24, 2022; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Hall of Fame member and former Baltimore Orioles player Brooks Robinson waves to the crowd prior to a game between the Orioles and the Houston Astros at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Mandatory Credit: James A. Pittman-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo
Two arrested on weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria police say they put two people behind bars Monday after one of them was spotted going into a store with a gun. Police say officers noticed Khylee Davis, 22, going into a business...
Sep 26, 2023 Khylee Davis (left) and Ramaj Mathews (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Grand jury charges man accused of fatal hit-and-run
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has indicted a man in connection with a fatal accident about a month ago. The grand jury filed a felony count of Leaving the Scene of an Accident Involving De...
Sep 26, 2023 John Timothy, Jr. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria Police investigating armed robbery from early Tuesday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - An investigation is underway after an armed robbery in Peoria's East Bluff occurring early Tuesday morning. Peoria Police responded to N. Central, in between Arcadia and Republic, just ...
Sep 26, 2023 Midwest Communications
Man arrested, accused of driving a U-Haul through yards while shooting
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is in trouble with the law after he allegedly drove a U-Haul through several areas while firing shots. Peoria Police say Kenneth Threatt, 38, faces a host of charges, inclu...
Sep 26, 2023 Kenneth Threatt (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail August 2023)
Trump is found liable for fraud in New York civil case
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump and his family business were found liable for fraud on Tuesday by a New York judge in state Attorney General Letitia James' civil lawsuit accusing the former U.S. pre...
Sep 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a 2024 presidential campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa, U.S. September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Scott Morgan/File Photo
