Category Archives: Top Stories
COVID unemployment surge led to $5.2 billion in overpaid benefits in Illinois - including fraud
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois overpaid unemployment benefits to the tune of $5.2 billion during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, with much of it paid to fraudulent ...
Jul 27, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
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)
UPDATE: Trump lawyers meet with US special counsel as second indictment looms
UPDATED 12:47 P.M. WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - Donald Trump's attorneys met on Thursday with Justice Department officials investigating the Republican former president's attempts to overturn his 2020 elec...
Jul 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event following his arraignment on classified document charges, at Trump National Golf Club, in Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S., June 13, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky/File Photo
US economic growth accelerates in second quarter; inflation retreats
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy grew faster than expected in the second quarter as labor market resilience supported consumer spending, while businesses boosted investment in equipment, potent...
Jul 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: People line up outside a newly reopened career center for in-person appointments in Louisville, U.S., April 15, 2021. REUTERS/Amira Karaoud
Sinead O'Connor was found unresponsive at London address - UK police
LONDON (Reuters) - Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who died on Wednesday aged 56, was found unresponsive at an address in London and pronounced dead at the scene, London's Metropolitan Police said. Arti...
Jul 27, 2023 Irish singer Sinead O'Connor performs on stage during the Carthage Jazz Festival in Tunis April 4, 2013. The festival runs till April 14. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi/File Photo
Arson to blame for fire overnight in Peoria, firefighter injured
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a duplex on W. Third, between N. Kane and N. MacArthur Highway, early Thursday morning. Fire Battalion Chief Tom Sander said flames were showing from ...
Jul 27, 2023 Midwest Communications
Central IL residents find ways to beat the extreme heat
PEORIA, Ill. - People who must be outside in the extreme heat this week are trying to find ways to stay cool. Temperatures in central Illinois will reach near 100 degrees the next couple days, with he...
Jul 27, 2023 Marco Verch Professional Photographer / CC
Pritzker signs bill aimed at ending homelessness
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation Wednesday that seeks to effectively end homelessness in Illinois by marshalling the resources of multiple agencies into ...
Jul 26, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker visited Phoenix Community Development Services in Peoria to discuss his bill that, among other things, seeks to end homelessness in Illinois (File-T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
