Author Archives: TJ Carson
Democrats tap gaming cash cow to help fill state budget gap
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - In order to boost infrastructure spending and avoid a projected fiscal cliff facing the state in the next couple of years, Democrats who control state gover...
Jun 04, 2024 Sports betting has become popular among Illinoisans since the market launched in 2020. But the state has also benefitted from taxing sportsbooks, netting nearly $415 million so far – a figure that’s set to rise even higher under a tax hike Democrats pushed through the General Assembly last week. (Unsplash.com photo by Amit Lahav)
Trump, RNC raise $141 million in May, boosted by guilty verdict
(Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee said on Monday they had raised $141 million in May, nearly doubling the prior month's haul t...
Jun 03, 2024 Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Crotona Park in the Bronx borough of New York City, U.S., May 23, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
Fauci denies suppressing COVID lab leak theory before US House panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci strongly denied suppressing the theory that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in China, telling lawmakers he never ...
Jun 03, 2024 While refusing to call him "doctor", U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) asks questions of Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical adviser to President Biden, during a hearing for the House Oversight and Reform Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 3, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Man arrested after early Saturday morning after allegedly taking child from Peoria home
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police arrested a man early Saturday morning on charges including home invasion and child abduction. Police responded to the Jeth Court Homes just after 5:00 A.M. on reports of a...
Jun 03, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
UPDATE: No date set for Netanyahu's address to US Congress, Israel says
UPDATED 5:14 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -No date has been set for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, his office and congressional sourc...
Jun 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the opening ceremony marking Israel's national Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem May 5, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo
Four more Israeli hostages died in Gaza captivity, Israel's military says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Israeli military said on Monday that four more of the Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7 have died in captivity and that their bodies are being held by the Islamist ...
Jun 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Pictures of hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7 attack by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza, are seen next to an Israeli flag on a building under construction, in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 31, 2024. REUTERS/Marko Djurica/File Photo
Peoria man sentenced for role in September 2020 murder
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man was sentenced to more than two decades in prison for his role in a murder nearly four years ago. 25 News reports 23-year-old Talya Zolicoffer was sentenced to 24 years in p...
Jun 03, 2024 courtroom gavel
Victim in fatal Interstate 74 crash Friday morning in East Peoria identified
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The identity of the victim in Friday morning's fatal crash on Interstate 74 in East Peoria is now known. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley says 32-year-old Lauren Martin of No...
Jun 03, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Speaker of the House likes chances of flipping Illinois' 17th Congressional District in November
PEORIA, Ill. - U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson believes Illinois' 17th Congressional District is in play in 2024. Retired judge Joe McGraw of Rockford is looking to unseat incumbent Democrat Er...
Jun 03, 2024 Retired judge Joe McGraw (left) stands next to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (center) during a press conference in Peoria on June 1st, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Speaker of the House visits Peoria to rally Republicans ahead of November elections
PEORIA, Ill. - The Speaker of the House says he's visited more than 110 cities and communities since taking the job in October, and added Peoria to the list Saturday night. Republican Mike Johnson of ...
Jun 01, 2024 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) speaks to media before his appearance at the Peoria and Tazewell Counties Lincoln Day Dinner on June 1st, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
