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Scholarship program for low-income kids not part of new Illinois budget
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois General Assembly did not vote to extend a scholarship program for low-income children. "Invest in Kids" started as a pilot program in 2018. It provides scholarships to...
May 31, 2023 Jim Bowen / CC
Cannabis regulatory reform bill fails to advance in spring legislative session
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A proposed cannabis reform bill won't get further consideration until at least the General Assembly's fall veto session after stakeholders failed to come to...
May 31, 2023 Rep. La Shawn Ford, D-Chicago, is pictured on the House floor. He is the sponsor of a cannabis regulatory bill that failed to pass in the recently concluded spring legislative session. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
US labor market still tight as job openings rise, layoffs fall
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. job openings unexpectedly rose in April and data for the prior month was revised higher, pointing to persistent strength in the labor market that could compel the Federal Re...
May 31, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A 7-Eleven convenience store has a sign in the window reading "Now Hiring" in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Former NJ governor Chris Christie to announce run for president -source
PRINCETON, New Jersey (Reuters) -Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who advised Donald Trump's White House campaign in 2016 only to become a vocal critic of the former president in recent mont...
May 31, 2023 Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks at the Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., March 27, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Two people still missing from Iowa building collapse
(Reuters) -Two people still counted as missing after the partial collapse of an Iowa apartment building on the weekend were likely inside at the time, officials said on Tuesday, but the structure was ...
May 31, 2023 Davenport police officers form a line opposite protesters that are advocating for search efforts to continue near the site of an apartment building that partially collapsed in Davenport, Iowa, U.S. May 30, 2023. Joseph Cress/USA Today Network via REUTERS
UPDATE: US debt ceiling bill advances toward tight vote in House
UPDATED 4:10 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bill to suspend the U.S. government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling and avert a disastrous default cleared a key procedural hurdle in the House of Representativ...
May 31, 2023 U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) returns to his office from the House floor at the U.S. Capitol ahead of an expected vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on a bill raising the federal government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, in Washington, U.S., May 31, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson
UPDATE: Man arrested for allegedly losing daughter at Summer Camp
UPDATED 11:46 A.M. 5/31/21 CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - A Quad Cities-area man was arrested at the final night of the Summer Camp music festival. Chillicothe Police say Chad Miller, 40, of Hillsdale, near Moli...
May 30, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Judge declines to lower bond of man accused of making Pere Marquette bomb threats
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County judge has denied a motion to reduce the bond of a man who is accused of making several bomb threats to downtown Peoria's Pere Marquette hotel earlier this year. Court re...
May 30, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Grand jury indicts woman on murder charges for stabbing death
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has weighed in regarding a recent stabbing death ruled a homicide. The grand jury Tuesday filed two counts of First-Degree Murder against Lauraine Singleton, ...
May 30, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail 2020)
Legislature approves bill to tighten restrictions on red-light camera industry
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Lawmakers in Springfield have unanimously approved a measure that would place new restrictions on the red-light and speed camera industry's involvement in s...
May 30, 2023 Billie Grace Ward / CC
