Category Archives: Top Stories
Rivian to relocate staff to Illinois EV plant to accelerate production - WSJ
(Reuters) - Rivian Automotive Inc is relocating parts of its manufacturing engineering team to Illinois to speed up production, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing a person familiar wit...
Mar 24, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The Rivian name is shown on one of their new electric SUV vehicles in San Diego, U.S., December 16, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Blake//File Photo
McCarthy expects US House will pass legislation to address TikTok
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy thinks lawmakers will pass bipartisan legislation to address national security worries about Chinese-owned short video app TikTok, he said on F...
Mar 24, 2023 FILE PHOTO: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) hosts a bill enrollment ceremony for legislation blocking the enactment of the Washington, DC City Council's 'Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022', in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., March 10, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Decades in prison for convicted child pornographer
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County man will go to federal prison for the next 50 years on Child Pornography-related charges. Benjamin Lascelles, 36 of Glasford, was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilt...
Mar 24, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail February 2020)
New names coming to Louisville Slugger Sports Complex
PEORIA, Ill. - A new partnership is coming to the Louisville Slugger Sports Complex. OSF Healthcare Field is now at the complex after the two parties entered into a partnership. The agreement also wil...
Mar 24, 2023 (OSF HealthCare)
Two wanted for federal COVID-19-related fraud violations
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peoria residents are wanted by federal authorities after allegedly lying in order to receive federal COVID-19 relief money. The U.S. Attorney's office says Andre Johnson, 25, and Sh...
Mar 24, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Nursing homes fined after 2022 resident injuries
UPDATED 3:18 P.M. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Peoria nursing home received at least two fines from the Illinois Department of Public Health in the third quarter of last fiscal year -- one of which was after...
Mar 24, 2023 (Illinois Department of Public Health)
Lease negotiations for Peoria Rivermen still going
PEORIA, Ill. - Both sides are still working on a deal to keep the Rivermen in Peoria. Peoria Civic Center Authority Chairwoman Yvonne Greer issued a statement Friday regarding lease talks with the Riv...
Mar 24, 2023 (Peoria Rivermen)
Rhetoric over US debt limit boils over as Republicans, Democrats joust
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Partisan sniping over raising U.S. borrowing authority ratcheted up on Friday when House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy accused President Joe Biden of ignoring the iss...
Mar 24, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as they depart following the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 17, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Former Madigan political director details push by speaker's office for key ComEd bill
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - As was the case with many big legislative efforts in Springfield, former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's staff was deeply involved in negotiations over wh...
Mar 24, 2023 Ex-lobbyist Mike McClain is pictured in his driver's license photo, which was submitted as evidence in his federal court trial this week in a case where he and three others allegedly bribed former House Speaker Michael Madigan (right) with jobs and contracts for the speaker’s political allies in exchange for legislation favorable to electric utility Commonwealth Edison. (Madigan photo and illustration by Jerry Nowicki; McClain photo obtained from trial exhibit)
UPDATE: Biden, Trudeau united against authoritarian regimes after China-Russia summit
UPDATED 5:15 P.M. OTTAWA (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presented a united front on Friday against authoritarian regimes as Biden visited the Canadian c...
Mar 24, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. first lady Jill Biden meet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada March 23, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
