Author Archives: TJ Carson
FTX's Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to campaign finance, China bribery charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty on Thursday to new U.S. charges of conspiring to violate campaign finance laws and bribe Chinese ...
Mar 30, 2023 Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, leaves the Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
Protesters demand action on guns at Tennessee statehouse
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Protesters flooded Tennessee's statehouse on Thursday to demand lawmakers stiffen gun laws following a school shooting in Nashville that left six people dead, three of...
Mar 30, 2023 Protesters gather inside the Tennessee State Capitol to call for an end to gun violence and support stronger gun laws after a deadly shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
U.S. investigating Minnesota train carrying ethanol that derailed, prompting evacuation
(Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Railroad Administration are investigating the derailment Thursday of a freight train carrying ethanol near a small town in Min...
Mar 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visits the site of the derailment of a train carrying hazardous waste in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S., February 23, 2023. REUTERS/Alan Freed
Republican energy bill passes U.S. House, sends to Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican energy reform bill intended to bolster U.S. oil and gas production while scaling back climate initiatives, the ...
Mar 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The sun sets behind the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., October 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Fire damages East Peoria house
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The cause of a fire at an East Peoria single-family house Thursday morning is under investigation. The East Peoria Fire Department says they responded to the fire in the area of Jo...
Mar 30, 2023 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
Former Peoria City Council at-large member passes away
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City Council took time at Tuesday night's meeting to honor and remember a former at-large member. Timothy J. Newlin passed away on Friday, March 24th at his home surrounded b...
Mar 29, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Wright & Salmon Mortuary)
N.Y. grand jury not expected to consider Trump case again until after Easter -source
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York grand jury probing former President Donald Trump's alleged role in a hush-money payment to a porn star is not expected to reconvene on the matter until after the Apri...
Mar 29, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on education as he holds a campaign rally with supporters, in Davenport, Iowa, U.S. March 13, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Peoria Fire responds to early morning fire at apartment complex
PEORIA, Ill. - No one was injured after a patio fire at an apartment complex early Wednesday morning. Peoria Fire received a call just before 2:30 A.M. to the Haymeadow Apartments on West Haymeadow re...
Mar 29, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Pence must testify in Jan. 6 attack probe, judge rules -reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge has ruled that former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence must testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with former President Donald Trump leading up to Janu...
Mar 28, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. former Vice President Mike Pence delivers remarks, in part addressing his opposition to a grand jury subpoena for testimony about efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection loss, to the Coolidge Presidential Foundation conference at the Library of Congress in Washington, U.S. February 16, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
US consumer confidence rises; house price inflation slows
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence unexpectedly increased in March, but Americans are becoming a bit anxious about the labor market and expect inflation to remain elevated over the next y...
Mar 28, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A family shops at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Springdale, Arkansas June 4, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo
