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UPDATE: Israel steps up strikes across Gaza, orders new evacuations in north
UPDATED 1:19 P.M. (Reuters) - Israeli strikes intensified across Gaza on Tuesday in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, residents said, and the army ordered fresh evacuations in the north of the e...
Julia Bradley Apr 23, 2024 A Palestinian man sits on the rubble of a house destroyed by Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the northern Gaza Strip, April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Pekin passes tax hikes and fees to help with budget
PEKIN, Ill. -Pekin's City Council on Monday night passed several measures to raise taxes and fees, as the city faces a $12 million deficit. In the upcoming fiscal year, Pekin will be required to compl...
Julia Bradley Apr 23, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: US Senate votes overwhelmingly to advance Ukraine, Israel aid legislation
UPDATED 2:11 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billions of dollars in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan advanced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, heading for a vote on final passage days after the Hou...
Julia Bradley Apr 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: View of the U.S. Capitol prior to a House of Representatives vote on legislation providing $95 billion in security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2024. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo
Drone, rocket attacks targeted US forces in Iraq, US officials say
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria faced two separate rocket and explosive drone attacks in less than 24 hours, Iraqi security sources and U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday, in the f...
TJ Carson Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Military vehicles of U.S. soldiers are seen at Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province, Iraq January 13, 2020. REUTERS/John Davison/File Photo
Only grocery store in Roanoke to shut down. Here's what we know
ROANOKE, Ill. - The only grocery store in a small Woodford County town is no more. 25 News reports the Roanoke IGA Foodliner is closing at the end of the day today Monday. Store owners did not provide...
TJ Carson Apr 22, 2024 (25 News)
Biden unveils $7 billion for rooftop solar in Earth Day message
TRIANGLE, Va. (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Monday celebrated Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in grants for residential solar projects that will power nearly a million low-income households. Th...
TJ Carson Apr 22, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) walk together at an event to commemorate Earth Day during a visit to Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia, U.S., April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Governor visits Peoria to encourage passage of his health insurance reform initiative
PEORIA, Ill. - Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker was joined by state lawmakers and OSF Healthcare leaders in Peoria on Monday to urge passage of one of his health care initiatives. The State House last ...
TJ Carson Apr 22, 2024 Governor J.B. Pritzker speaks at the OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute about the Healthcare Protection Act. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Kroger, Albertsons to sell 166 more stores to gain regulatory approval for $25 billion merger
(Reuters) -Kroger and Albertsons Cos will sell an extra 166 stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers under an amended deal to get regulatory approval for their proposed $25 billion merger, the companies sa...
TJ Carson Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The Albertsons logo is seen on an Albertsons grocery store, as Kroger agrees to buy rival Albertsons in a deal to combine the two supermarket chains, in Rancho Cucamonga, California, U.S., October 14, 2022. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci/File Photo
US aid could buy Kyiv time, but Ukraine needs many more troops
KYIV/NEAR KUPIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -For the exhausted Ukrainian artillery gunners holding off Russian forces near the eastern town of Kupiansk, the U.S. aid package expected to finally pass this we...
TJ Carson Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Servicemen of the 1148th separate artillery brigade of Air Assault Troops of Ukraine fire a M777 howitzer towards Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine April 20, 2024. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Serhii Nuzhnenko via REUTERS/File Photo
Investigation underway after fire destroyed Peoria house Monday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - A house will have to be torn down after a fire Monday morning in Peoria. Peoria Fire says crews responded just before 6:15 A.M. to the area of Brons and Broadway. The first crews on sce...
TJ Carson Apr 22, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
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