Author Archives: TJ Carson
DCFS hires on-the-spot at hiring events
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Cyrenthia Threat spent Wednesday morning at a hiring event in Fairview Heights waiting for word on whether she was hired by the Illinois Department of ...
Mar 28, 2024 Tina Clayborne and Cyrenthia Threat stand in line to process their applications at the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services’ On-The-Spot Hiring event on Wednesday at the Fountains Conference Center in Fairview Heights. DCFS Officials said 303 people attended with 123 receiving conditional job offers. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Beth Hundsdorfer)
Job numbers and unemployment rates increase in Peoria area in February
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Jobs are up in the Peoria-metro area, but so is the unemployment rate. The latest report released Thursday by the Illinois Department of Employment Security showed the metro area's...
Mar 28, 2024 job market section, paper
Peoria County Vietnam veterans and those lost in the conflict honored on Thursday
PEORIA, Ill. - Those who served and those who were lost in the Vietnam War from Peoria County were recognized on Thursday. The annual ceremony to honor veterans from the Vietnam War took place at the ...
Mar 28, 2024 Peoria American Legion Post 2 Commander Jim Ulrich leads the ceremony for Peoria County Vietnam veterans at the Peoria County Courthouse grounds on March 28th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
World Court orders Israel to halt Gaza famine; fighting flares at hospital
THE HAGUE/CAIRO (Reuters) -The World Court on Thursday unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies...
Mar 28, 2024 Members of the Israeli army check around the scene of a shooting incident, near Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, March 28, 2024. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
US House to deliver Homeland Secretary Mayorkas impeachment to Senate April 10
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will deliver two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10,...
Mar 28, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press conference with Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 21, 2024. REUTERS/Cristina Chiquin/File Photo
Former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman dies at 82
(Reuters) -Former U.S. senator and Democratic Party vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman died on Wednesday at age 82 in New York City after suffering complications from a fall, his family said. "Hi...
Mar 27, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman speaks at an event in Ashraf-3 camp, which is a base for the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) in Manza, Albania, July 13, 2019. REUTERS/Florion Goga/File Photo
Man charged in Peoria's 3rd homicide of year ordered to remain in jail
PEORIA, Ill. - A man charged in connection to one of two homicides from the past weekend in Peoria was ordered to remain in jail. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says a petition to detain ...
Mar 27, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Disney, Florida settle bitter legal feud over Disney World district
(Reuters) -Walt Disney and appointees of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reached a settlement on Wednesday to end a high-profile lawsuit in state court over control of the special district that includes...
Mar 27, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign visit ahead of the South Carolina presidential primary in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S. January 20, 2024. REUTERS/Randall Hill/File Photo
Peoria County ROE head "not shocked" by teacher shortage survey results
PEORIA, Ill. - The head of education in Peoria County says it was "not shocking" to see the results of a survey related to teacher shortages in Illinois. A recent study from the Illinois Association o...
Mar 27, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County)
UPDATE: Divers recover two bodies from river after Baltimore bridge collapse
UPDATE 5:26 P.M. BALTIMORE (Reuters) -Divers recovered the remains on Wednesday of two of the six missing workers tossed into Baltimore Harbor from a highway bridge that collapsed into shipping lanes ...
Mar 27, 2024 Emergency boats work near the collapsed section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, after the Dali cargo vessel crashed into it, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., March 27, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar
