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Salvation Army Tree of Lights campaign continues one more month; gold bar donated in one Red Kettle
PEORIA, Ill. – So close, yet, so far away. That might be how the goal of this year’s Peoria Salvation Army Tree of Lights campaign could be described , as it has one more month left, endin...
Dec 30, 2021
Canada’s WestJet cancelling 15% of January flights due to COVID-19 surge
By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada's WestJet Airlines will cancel 15% of scheduled flights in January because the rapidly spreading Omicron variant of COVID-19 has left the airline un...
Dec 30, 2021
Jan. 6 panel urges U.S. high court to deny Trump bid to shield records
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to deny a request by former President Donald Trump to shiel...
Dec 30, 2021
Wind-driven wildfires prompt evacuation order for small Colorado town
DENVER (Reuters) - Wind-driven wildfires prompted an evacuation order on Thursday for the entire town of Superior, Colorado, a community of roughly 13,000 residents, according to Twitter feeds of the ...
Dec 30, 2021
Jana Partners nominates two to TreeHouse’s board
(Reuters) - Hedge fund Jana Partners said on Thursday it nominated two directors to the board of TreeHouse Foods Inc, months after it pushed for changes at the packaged food maker. The private-label f...
Dec 30, 2021
Israel agrees on more aid for El Al Airlines amid COVID travel bans
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's government said on Thursday it would give additional aid to El Al Airlines to help compensate for the reimposition of a COVID-19 entry ban on foreign to...
Dec 30, 2021
U.S. ends case against Jeffrey Epstein’s jail guards
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors decided to end their criminal case against two Manhattan jail guards who admitted to falsifying records on the night the financier Jeffrey Eps...
Dec 30, 2021
Man begins jail sentence for fatal 2020 accident
PEORIA, Ill. – A Chillicothe man charged in an accident almost two years ago that claimed the life of another Chillicothe man is reporting to jail for the crime, but will not be there long. Peor...
Dec 30, 2021
Anti-vax community blasts Trump after pro-shot comments
By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) - Former Republican President Donald Trump's recent comments touting COVID-19 vaccines as safe and a major achievement of his presidency have roiled extreme anti-vaxers, w...
Dec 30, 2021
Hy-Vee adds ‘Retail Security Team’, is hiring officers
WEST DES MOINES, Ia. — Peoria’s two Hy-Vee grocery stores may soon have actual security guards patrolling them. The Iowa-based chain says it’s previously worked with third-party secu...
Dec 30, 2021
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