Author Archives: TJ Carson
Rivian posts sharp fall in quarterly deliveries as soft demand weighs
(Reuters) - Rivian reported a 36% decline in first-quarter deliveries on Wednesday, as the electric-vehicle maker grapples with weak demand, sending its shares down nearly 6%. EV makers have been batt...
Apr 02, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Workers assemble second-generation R1 vehicles at electric auto maker Rivian's manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois, U.S. June 21, 2024. REUTERS/Joel Angel Juarez/File Photo
Peoria voters stay course with mayor and council, Washington voters elect new mayor in consolidated elections
PEORIA, Ill. - Incumbents in the city of Peoria had a good night at the ballot box on Tuesday. Mayor Rita Ali won a second term over challenger, at-large councilman John Kelly, by a 60-40% vote margin...
Apr 01, 2025
Shadid officially begins job as Bradley University president
PEORIA, Ill. - A new age of leadership officially begins Tuesday at Bradley University. Tuesday marks the first official day of James Shadid as president of the university, the 13th in Bradley's 128-y...
Apr 01, 2025 Federal Judge James Shadid, who has served the District of Central Illinois, has been named the new president of Bradley University
(1470 WMBD Radio--Julia Bradley)
Trump begins mass layoffs at FDA, CDC, other US health agencies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration began mass layoffs of 10,000 staffers at U.S. health agencies on Tuesday, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation, with security guards...
Apr 01, 2025 Employees of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) queue outside the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building, after it was reported that the Trump administration fired staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the Food and Drug Administration, as it embarked on its plan to cut 10,000 jobs at HHS, in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 1, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Election Day turnout steady through the early afternoon
PEORIA/WASHINGTON/MORTON, Ill. - Voters across central Illinois are making their voices heard in Tuesday's consolidated elections. Votes will be cast in a wide range of races, including for mayors, ci...
Apr 01, 2025 A sign indicates one of the polling locations in Morton, at Community United Church of Christ, on Election Day 2025. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione, Bondi says
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting and killing the CEO of UnitedHe...
Apr 01, 2025 Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson, appears in Manhattan Supreme Court on New York state murder and terrorism charges in New York City, U.S., February 21, 2025. Curtis Means/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Man detained for weekend shooting at Peoria apartment complex that injured one person
PEORIA, Ill. - A man accused of a shooting at a Peoria apartment complex that injured another man from the past weekend will remain in jail. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 26-year-ol...
Mar 31, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Demolition of former Peoria Labor Temple building underway
PEORIA, Ill. - The first steps to a new men's shelter for the Peoria Salvation Army are now underway. The new 19,000 square foot building will sit at the corner of Spalding and Jefferson in downtown P...
Mar 31, 2025 Crews demolish the former AFL-CIO Labor Temple building in downtown Peoria to make way for a new men's shelter for the Peoria Salvation Army. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Union sues to block Trump from ending collective bargaining for many federal workers
(Reuters) -A union that represents 150,000 U.S. government employees filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block President Donald Trump from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of the ab...
Mar 31, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Denise Davis, a retired federal employee and NTEU union member, looks on as her great grandsons' Deondre and Montrell Griffin hold a sign during a rally across the street from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters, in support of the civil service in the wake of mass firings, and organized by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. March 15, 2025. REUTERS/Chase Castor/File Photo
Three of four missing US Army soldiers found dead in Lithuania
VILNIUS (Reuters) -Three of the four U.S. Army soldiers who went missing in Lithuania last week when their vehicle sunk in a peat bog have been found dead at the site, while the search for the remaini...
Mar 31, 2025 Diggers operate at the site of a rescue operation at Pabrade training ground, where a U.S. military vehicle has gone missing, in Lithuania, March 28, 2025. REUTERS/Janis Laizans
