Author Archives: TJ Carson
Peoria Public Works discusses project to add parking spaces in Warehouse District
PEORIA, Ill. - The city of Peoria will soon start a new project where the main focus will be adding more parking in the Warehouse District. Peoria Public Works leaders held a public hearing Tuesday mo...
May 14, 2024 Peoria City Engineer Andrea Klopfenstein discusses plans to add parking spaces and other improvements on Depot Street in the Warehouse District at a public hearing on May 14th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
As Medicaid redeterminations restart, about 73% of state's recipients remain enrolled
About 73 percent of Illinois' Medicaid recipients remain on the rolls after the first redetermination cycle following the COVID-19 pandemic, while approximately 660,000 recipients have been disenrolle...
May 13, 2024 Credit: Hush Naidoo Jade Photography, unsplash.com
UN says Gaza death toll still over 35,000 but not all bodies identified
UNITED NATIONS/GENEVA (Reuters) - The death toll in the Gaza Strip from the Israel-Hamas war is still more than 35,000, but the enclave's Ministry of Health has updated its breakdown of the fatalities...
May 13, 2024 An Israeli tank holds a position as smoke rises in Gaza, near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Israel, May 13, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
Collapsed Baltimore bridge to be blasted into pieces, removed from crippled ship
(Reuters) - U.S. crews in Baltimore plan to set off controlled explosions on Monday to allow them to remove a portion of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the bow of the massive container sh...
May 13, 2024 FILE PHOTO: View of the Dali cargo vessel which crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., April 4, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Israeli forces push into Gaza from north and south
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces pushed deep into the ruins of Gaza's northern edge on Monday to recapture an area where they claimed to have dismantled Hamas months ago, while in the south tanks and t...
May 13, 2024 Smoke rises following Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia refugee camp northern Gaza Strip, May 13, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Major airlines sue Biden administration over fee disclosure rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Major U.S. airlines are suing the U.S. Transportation Department over a new rule requiring upfront disclosure of airline fees, the latest clash between air carriers and the Biden...
May 13, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A plane takes off as seen from inside the newly completed 1.3 million-square foot $4 billion Delta Airlines Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport in the Queens borough of New York City, New York, U.S., June 1, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
Labor-backed bill banning 'captive audience' meetings awaits House action
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - With two weeks left before the General Assembly's spring session is set to adjourn, negotiations continue on a labor union-backed initiative that would allo...
May 10, 2024 Sen. Robert Peters, D-Chicago, listens to questions from his Republican colleagues about the union-dubbed “Worker’s Freedom of Speech Act.” It advanced out of the Senate 38-18 last week and awaits action in the House. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Hamas says Gaza ceasefire efforts are back at square one
CAIRO (Reuters) -The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Friday efforts to agree to a ceasefire for the Gaza Strip were back at square one after Israel effectively rejected a proposal by internat...
May 10, 2024 May 9, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
OSF Healthcare planning merger with hospital in Dixon
PEORIA, Ill. - OSF Healthcare has entered into negotiations with Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital in Dixon, with a merger between the two entities anticipated. OSF announced Friday that a term sheet has...
May 10, 2024 (Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital)
Dozens arrested at Penn, MIT in latest crackdowns on Gaza protests
(Reuters) - Police dismantled encampments and arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania on Friday morning, in the la...
May 10, 2024 Police detain pro-Palestinian protesters as they block the entrance to the Stata Center parking garage at MIT while demanding the university divest from Israel, among other demands, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. May 9, 2024. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi
