Author Archives: TJ Carson
US House votes to approve first 2024 spending bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed a fiscal 2024 appropriations bill for military construction and veterans affairs on Thursday, the first of 12 spend...
Jul 27, 2023 U.S. Capitol police stand outside the Capitol building as the Senate votes on debt ceiling legislation to avoid a historic default at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Biden seeks heat hazard alert, provides $1 billion to plant trees
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday he had asked Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su to issue a heat hazard alert, clarifying that workers have heat-related protections as tem...
Jul 27, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on extreme heat conditions, from the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, in Washington, U.S. July 27, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Drought levels stay level over the past week locally and across Illinois. Here's the latest numbers
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Drought levels in central Illinois and across the state are about the same as they were the week prior. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report released Thursday shows that all of Peo...
Jul 27, 2023 (National Weather Service)
State Senator Tom Bennett to retire at the end of the current term
GIBSON CITY, Ill. - A State Senator who serves portions of Peoria, Woodford, and Tazewell Counties is stepping down. 53rd District State Senator Tom Bennett (R-GIbson City) announced Wednesday that he...
Jul 26, 2023 State Sen. Tom Bennett (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois General Assembly)
Fed raises interest rates, leaves door open to another hike
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, citing still elevated inflation as a rationale for what is now the highest U.S. centra...
Jul 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Federal Reserve building is pictured in Washington, March 18, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Reed/
US new home sales fall, but trend remains strong
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Sales of new U.S. single-family homes fell in June after three straight monthly increases, but the trend remained strong as an acute shortage of previously owned homes underpins ...
Jul 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: New apartments are seen under construction in Tampa, Florida, U.S., May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Octavio Jones/File Photo
Tearful Kevin Spacey 'humbled' by acquittal on all sex charges in London trial
LONDON (Reuters) - A tearful Kevin Spacey said he was "humbled" after a jury in a London court found him not guilty on Wednesday of carrying out multiple sex assaults on four men. After 12 hours and 2...
Jul 26, 2023 Actor Kevin Spacey leaves Southwark Crown Court after he was found not guilty on charges related to allegations of sexual offenses, in London, Britain, July 26, 2023. REUTERS/Susannah Ireland

Peoria housing market second quarter update provides mixed bag of numbers
PEORIA, Ill. - The housing market in Peoria has positives and negatives after the halfway point of 2023. Peoria Area Association of Realtors Secretary and Treasurer Keith McKeever joined WMBD's "Greg ...
Jul 25, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy, File)
US judge blocks Biden's new border asylum restrictions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden's new regulation restricting asylum access at the U.S.-Mexico border, upending a key tenet of his plan for deterring m...
Jul 25, 2023 Migrants are seen gathered on the U.S.-Mexico border at sunrise after the lifting of Title 42 near El Paso, Texas, U.S., May 12, 2023. REUTERS/Julio Cesar Chavez
UPDATE: UPS, union avert strike with planned 5-year deal, pay increase
UPDATED 1:10 P.M. (Reuters) -UPS and its Teamsters union have agreed on a tentative contract deal for about 340,000 U.S. workers at the parcel delivery firm, one week ahead of a threatened strike that...
Jul 25, 2023 FILE PHOTO: UPS workers, who are members of the Teamsters Union, take part in a 'practice picket line' ahead of an upcoming possible strike, outside of a UPS Distribution Center in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., July 14, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
