Author Archives: TJ Carson
Republican-led U.S. House panel probes Twitter block of Hunter Biden story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives sought to deliver on a campaign promise to their most hardline supporters on Tuesday, with a public hearing on a laptop computer...
Feb 08, 2023 U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee member Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attends the committee's hearing about Twitter's handling of a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden and his laptop, in Washington, U.S. February 8, 2023. Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein
Sendoff ceremony for Peoria-area based battalion
PEORIA, Ill. - The latest batch of troops to be deployed from the Peoria-based 182nd Airlift Wing of the Illinois Army National Guard received a send off Tuesday morning. Around 180 members of the 1st...
Feb 07, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
U.S. House Speaker McCarthy to address debt ceiling ahead of Biden speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, locked in a standoff with Democratic President Joe Biden over raising the nation's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, plans to address th...
Feb 06, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) talks to reporters after he met with U.S. President Joe Biden to discuss the federal debt limit and spending, at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Bridge project to readjust CityLink routes
PEORIA, Ill. - CityLink is making temporary adjustments to a few of its bus routes before a bridge project begins next month. IDOT is planning to start improvements to the Bob Michel Bridge starting o...
Feb 06, 2023 (25 News)
Man who trafficked drugs to central Illinois sentenced to federal prison
PEORIA, Ill. - A 41-year-old man who trafficked ice methamphetamine to Central Illinois will spend the next 27 years in federal prison. That's the sentence Gabriel Antonio Montano-Rodriquez received i...
Feb 03, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Honda issues 'Do Not Drive' warning for 8,200 U.S. vehicles over air bag risks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Honda Motor Co on Friday issued a "Do Not Drive" warning for 8,200 model year Acura and Honda vehicles with unrepaired Takata air bag inflators in the United States. The urgent w...
Feb 03, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The logos of Honda Motor Co. is pictured at the 45th Tokyo Motor Show in Tokyo, Japan October 25, 2017. Picture taken October 25, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Biden hails January jobs report, waves off inflation question
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday hailed a jobs report that showed 517,000 jobs were created in January and unemployment fell to 3.4%, its lowest rate in 54 years, as evidence that h...
Feb 03, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the economy and the January jobs report, during brief remarks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building's South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 3, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
McCarthy says he will meet Biden again on U.S. debt ceiling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Thursday that he and President Joe Biden have agreed to meet again for talks on raising the U.S. governme...
Feb 02, 2023 U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters following his meeting with President Joe Biden about the looming debt ceiling issue at the White House in Washington, U.S. February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from high-profile U.S. House committee
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Republicans on Thursday ousted Democrat Ilhan Omar from a high-profile committee over remarks widely condemned as antisemitic, two years after Demo...
Feb 02, 2023 U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) walks to her office after being ousted by the Republican-lead House of Representatives to serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 2, 2023. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Peoria Fire Department names new Assistant Fire Chief
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Fire Department is promoting from within for a new assistant fire chief. Tony Cummings has been with the department since May 22, 2000. Fire Chief Shawn Sollberger says he wi...
Feb 02, 2023 (Peoria Fire Dept.)
