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Nashville board reinstates Black lawmaker expelled from Tennessee House
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) -A Nashville-area county council on Monday voted to reinstate Representative Justin Jones to the Tennessee House of Representatives, reversing Republican lawmakers who o...
Apr 10, 2023 Representative Justin Jones leaves the Historic Metro Courthouse after being reinstated by the Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County with 36-0 votes, after the Republican majority Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel two Democratic members, representatives Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, for their roles in a gun control demonstration on the statehouse floor, outside the Historic Metro Courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., April 10, 2023. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
Gas prices increase again in Peoria area
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices continue to rise in the Peoria area. That's according to both AAA and GasBuddy.com. GasBuddy says their survey shows an 8.9 cent week-over-week price hike. Their gallon of un...
Apr 10, 2023 Orin Zebest / CC
Delavan man dies in rural Pekin car crash
PEKIN, Ill. - A Delavan resident is dead after an accident in rural Pekin Sunday evening. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley doesn't provide many details of the crash, except that Justin Defenbaug...
Apr 10, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Virginia mother of 6-year-old who shot teacher charged
UPDATED 4:09 P.M. (Reuters) -A Virginia grand jury on Monday indicted the mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot an elementary school teacher in Newport News in January on felony child neglect and a fire...
Apr 10, 2023 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Durbin, judiciary committee, want investigation of Thomas' alleged wrongdoing
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Illinois' senior U.S. Senator is among those that are asking for a full investigation now that media reports claim Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas didn't disclose years of cru...
Apr 10, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: U.S. Postal Service seeks to hike stamp prices by 5.4%
UPDATED 4:10 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States Postal Service (USPS) on Monday said it was seeking approval to hike the price of first-class mail stamps to 66 cents from 63 cents. USPS won...
Apr 10, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A person enters a United States Postal Service (USPS) Post Office in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Pritzker: 'Devil's in the details' when considering lifting ban on new nuclear
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Lawmakers went on a two-week spring break last week with more than 700 bills already passed in at least one chamber of the General Assembly. They will retur...
Apr 10, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker said last week he does not think lifting a ban on new nuclear power construction would be contradictory to the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act that he signed in 2021. Some environmentalists have opposed lifting the nuclear ban due to the dangers associated with nuclear waste. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Fulton County tornado damage: by the numbers
FULTON COUNTY, Ill. - Officials in Fulton County are starting to put out some numbers other than the one we knew about: which was "three" as in the strongest of the tornadoes that went through that ar...
Apr 10, 2023 (Fulton County Sheriffs Department)
UPDATE: US appeals Texas abortion pill ruling as states stockpile the drug
UPDATED 5:10 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government on Monday appealed a Texas judge's decision to suspend the Food and Drug Administration's 23-year-old approval of a key abortion drug, sayin...
Apr 10, 2023 A patient prepares to take mifepristone, the first pill given in a medical abortion, at Women's Reproductive Clinic of New Mexico in Santa Teresa, U.S., January 13, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
President Biden says he will run again in 2024 -NBC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday he plans to run for reelection in 2024 but was not prepared to announce it yet. "I plan on running ... but we're not prepared to announce...
Apr 10, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One to return to Washington from Raleigh-Durham International Airport, Morrisville, North Carolina, U.S., March 28, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
