Author Archives: TJ Carson
North Dakota Governor Burgum exits 2024 presidential race
Doug Burgum, the governor of North Dakota who struggled to find his footing in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, ended his campaign on Monday. Burgum, 67, was a successful soft...
Dec 04, 2023 Republican presidential candidate and Governor of North Dakota Doug Burgum speaks during the party's Florida Freedom Summit in Kissimmee, Florida, U.S., November 4, 2023. REUTERS/Octavio Jones
State grant money for walking trails awarded to two central Illinois communities
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State grants have been awarded to two central Illinois communities to help with their walking trails. East Peoria and Germantown Hills are each receiving $200,000 from the Illinois...
Dec 02, 2023 (City of East Peoria)
One person injured after Peoria house fire early Saturday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - A house fire from early Saturday morning in Peoria was ruled to be accidental. Peoria Fire crews responded to a home at 3:04 A.M. in the 800-block of West Maywood. The first crews on sc...
Dec 02, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Eureka College remembers Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor after her passing
EUREKA, Ill. - Eureka College is honoring the life of a former Supreme Court justice who was appointed by one of their alumni. President Jamel Wright says flags are flying at half-mast on campus in ho...
Dec 02, 2023 (Eureka College)
Southern Gaza under bombardment after Israel-Hamas truce collapses
GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli air strikes and artillery bombardments hit Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip on Saturday as Israel pressed its offensive against Hamas militants with renewed force aft...
Dec 02, 2023 Smoke rises amid damaged buildings in Gaza, after a temporary truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas expired, as seen from southern Israel, December 2, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
US lays out plan at COP 28 to slash climate 'super pollutant' methane from oil and gas
DUBAI (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Saturday unveiled final rules aimed at cracking down on U.S. oil and gas industry releases of methane, part of a global plan to rein in emissions that cont...
Dec 02, 2023 FILE PHOTO: An oil pump jack is seen in the Loco Hills region, New Mexico, U.S., April 6, 2023. REUTERS/Liz Hampton/File Photo
Inmate charged with attempted murder after George Floyd killer Chauvin stabbed 22 times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal inmate was charged on Friday with attempted murder and other offenses for allegedly stabbing Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the deat...
Dec 01, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses his sentencing hearing and the judge as he awaits his sentence after being convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. June 25, 2021 in a still image from video. Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Chair of DeSantis super PAC quits in latest blow to presidential campaign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chairman of the main political action committee supporting the presidential campaign of Ron DeSantis has stepped down, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, in...
Dec 01, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at the third Republican candidates' U.S. presidential debate of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, U.S., November 8, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
High schoolers receive hands-on experiences and construction work opportunities at Caterpillar in Edwards
EDWARDS, Ill. - Construction unions and contractors from central Illinois made their pitch to high school students today to have a career with them. It was made at the SkillsUSA Illinois Construction ...
Dec 01, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US, partners target North Korea with sanctions following satellite launch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday targeted North Korea with fresh sanctions after its launch of a spy satellite last week, designating foreign-based agents it accused of facilitatin...
Nov 30, 2023 North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un meets with members of the Non-Standing Satellite Launch Preparation Committee, in this picture released by the Korean Central News Agency on November 24, 2023. KCNA via REUTERS/File Photo
