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Families, providers of early intervention services seek $60 million in new state funding
CHICAGO - Early childhood intervention advocates are calling on the state to increase funding by $60 million to better support children with developmental delays and disabilities who are on long waiti...
Nov 14, 2024 (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Trump's transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit
(Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is planning to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, two sources with ...
Nov 14, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump applauds Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm during a tax reform event with workers at the Andeavor Refinery in Mandan, North Dakota, U.S., September 6, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
US weekly jobless claims fall; unemployment rolls shrink
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, suggesting the labor market continued to chug along and that the abrupt slowdown in job...
Nov 14, 2024 Signage for a job fair is seen on 5th Avenue after the release of the jobs report in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/Fie Photo
'You agreed to wear wires against your ComEd family': Star witness in Madigan trial grilled on cross-examination
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Before the sun rose on a cold Wednesday morning in January 2019, Fidel Marquez agreed to a life-altering assignment as a cooperating witness in a criminal case the go...
Nov 14, 2024 Fidel Marquez, a former Commonwealth Edison executive-turned-cooperating witness, leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse with his attorney on Tuesday, Nov. 12, after his fifth day of testimony in the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Israel hits Beirut again, ceasefire terms in focus
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A senior Lebanese official has signaled that Hezbollah is ready to pull its forces away from the Lebanese-Israeli border in any ceasefire, while rejecting Israel's demand f...
Nov 14, 2024 Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs after an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Baabda, Lebanon November 14, 2024. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
UPDATE: Shooting in Peoria Wednesday night leaves two injured
UPDATED 8:40 a.m. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police responded to a ShotSpotter alert Wednesday night on N. Avalon, indicating 11 shots were fired. Sgt. Amy Dotson says just after 9 p.m., officers found a w...
Nov 14, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Republicans win majority of US House seats in government sweep, Edison projects
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's Republican Party will control both houses of Congress when he takes office in January, Edison Research projected on Wednesday, enabling him to pus...
Nov 14, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A view of the U.S. Capitol, following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's bid for immunity from federal prosecution for 2020 election subversion in Washington, U.S., July 1, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/File Photo
Trump taps firebrand congressman Matt Gaetz for attorney general
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday named incendiary Republican U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz to be his nominee for attorney general, selecting an ally who has faced Justi...
Nov 13, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 17, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Washington Community High School board member passes away
WASHINGTON, Ill. - Washington Community High School is mourning the passing of who the district calls a "true champion for students and teachers." WCHS board member Gloria McNett passed away on Novemb...
Nov 13, 2024 (Mason-White Funeral Home)
Wisconsin Avenue reopens after completion of reconstruction project
PEORIA, Ill. - One of the main roads in Peoria's East Bluff is now fully open again. City leaders cut a ceremonial ribbon on Wednesday to signify the completion of the Wisconsin Avenue reconstruction ...
Nov 13, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
