WCMY New Obituaries
Donna Jean (Stevens) Girard, 78, of Ottawa
Donna Jean (Stevens) Girard, 78, of Ottawa, passed away Friday, November 28, 2025 at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria. A visitation will be held on Wednesday, December 10, at Ottawa Funeral Home from 4:00pm until 7:00pm. A funeral ceremony will be held on Thursday, December 11, at 11:00am at the funeral home. B...
Dec 03, 2025
Patti Spence, 70, of Ottawa
Patti Spence, 70, of Ottawa, passed away Monday, December 1, 2025 at her home surrounded by her loving family. Cremation rites have been entrusted to Ottawa Funeral Home. Patti was born February 24, 1955 in Ottawa, IL, to Peter and Angelina (Mulinazzi) Tassoni. She attended George P. Hills Elementary School and then Ot...
Dec 02, 2025
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Ian Forsyth/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Online shoppers set a record high on Thanksgiving, paving the way for gangbusters performance on Black Friday, Adobe data showed.Digital spending on Thanksgiving jumped 5% from a year earlier, totaling $6.4 billio...
Nov 28, 2025
Gas prices near lowest level in 4 years ahead of Thanksgiving
Michael Godek/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Gas prices stand close to their lowest level in four years as tens of millions of people prepare to travel over the Thanksgiving holiday.The national average for a gallon of gas on Monday tallied at $3.07, which ...
Nov 25, 2025
Nvidia defies AI bubble fears but some analysts remain worried
Win McNamee/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Blockbuster earnings from chip giant Nvidia this week appeared to rebuke concerns about an artificial-intelligence bubble, briefly ending a days-long slump in the stock market."It's fair to say that Nvidia's result...
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