Author Archives: TJ Carson
US to criminally charge Boeing, seek guilty plea, sources say
(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department will criminally charge Boeing with fraud over two fatal crashes and ask the planemaker to plead guilty or face a trial, two people familiar with the matter said ...
Jul 01, 2024 Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun, Washington, D.C., June 18, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
US Supreme Court throws out rulings on state laws regulating social media
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a pair of judicial decisions involving challenges to Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas designed to restrict the power of soci...
Jul 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A person looks at his cell phone as he and others walk along the beach at twilight during the Labour Day long weekend in Ft Myers Beach, Florida August 31, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
US Supreme Court declines to keep Trump ally Bannon out of prison
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday denied a request by Steve Bannon, an influential ally of former President Donald Trump, to keep him out of prison while he appeals his convictio...
Jun 28, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Steve Bannon, former advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, attends an event held by the national conservative political movement, ‘Turning Point’ in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., June, 15, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca cook/File Photo
Golf Learning Center and Peoria Zoo improvements approved by Peoria Park District board
PEORIA, Ill. - Multiple Peoria Park District facilities will be receiving improvements over the next year. The park district board approved the projects at their meeting on Wednesday. One of them is a...
Jun 28, 2024 (Peoria Park District)
Circuit court warns of phone scam in Peoria County regarding jury duty
PEORIA, Ill. - The Tenth Judicial Circuit Court is warning about a reported scam in Peoria County regarding missed jury duty. In a statement Friday, the court says there's been reports of people posin...
Jun 28, 2024 courtroom gavel
Pritzker calls SCOTUS emergency abortion ruling 'small respite' as state protections await his signature
Abortion remains legal as an emergency medical procedure in Idaho, for now, after a Thursday U.S. Supreme Court ruling, while a bill that would cement those protections in Illinois law awaits Gov. JB ...
Jun 28, 2024 Rep. Dagmara Avelar, D-Bolingbrook, speaks on the House floor during the 2024 spring legislative session. Avelar sponsored a bill that would codify protections for emergency abortions into state law in response to a Supreme Court case casting doubt on federal protections for the procedure. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Peoria woman sentenced for March 2023 stabbing death
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria woman has learned her fate after pleading guilty to the stabbing death of her boyfriend last year. Heaven Kruzan was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday. She could have f...
Jun 28, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
US Supreme Court curbs federal agency powers, overturning 1984 precedent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a major blow to federal regulatory power on Friday by overturning a 1984 precedent that had given deference to government agencies in interpreting la...
Jun 28, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2024. REUTERS/Will Dunham/File Photo
Biden delivers uneven performance under Trump's barrage of falsehoods at first debate
ATLANTA (Reuters) -Democratic President Joe Biden delivered a shaky performance at Thursday's debate while his Republican rival Donald Trump battered him with a series of often false attacks, as the t...
Jun 27, 2024 Democrat candidate, U.S. President Joe Biden, and Republican candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump, stand at their podiums at the start of a presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., June 27, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Peoria mayor looks ahead in annual State of the City address
PEORIA, Ill. - For Peoria Mayor Rita Ali, the best is yet to come for the city. The sentiment was the theme of her annual State of the City address Thursday night, held at Haven on the Farm in the nor...
Jun 27, 2024 Peoria Mayor Rita Ali gives the State of the City address on June 27th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
