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Changes to cash bail statute surface before Thursday's planned adjournment
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Two days before lawmakers were scheduled to adjourn for the year, one of the lead negotiators of the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform filed a long-awaited...
Will Stevenson Nov 30, 2022 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Portion of U.S. 150 to be renamed after slain sheriffs deputy
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Knox County sheriffs deputy killed in the line of duty in April will have part of a highway named after him. Lawmakers during the fall veto session approved a resolution naming p...
Will Stevenson Nov 30, 2022 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Photo via Facebook)
PPD, churches to host another gun buyback event
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say they're doing it again soon. Police and two local churches are partnering on December 10th to hold another gun buyback event. After a similar event November 19th ended...
Will Stevenson Nov 30, 2022
Expert at Peoria Farm Show: Corn and soybeans look to have good years in 2023
PEORIA, Ill. - One agriculture expert spending part of his week at the Greater Peoria Farm Show says he's feeling pretty bullish on corn and soybeans in the next planting and harvesting seasons. Todd ...
Will Stevenson Nov 30, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Republican rival to join Illinois Democrats' transition team
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. -- Incoming Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has announced he will bring a former political rival on board his transition team. One-time Republican candidate for Secreta...
Cooper Banks Nov 30, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Friends of Dan Brady)
Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter Christine McVie dies
UPDATED 2:39 P.M. LONDON (Reuters) -Singer-songwriter Christine McVie, a member of British-American band Fleetwood Mac, died on Wednesday aged 79, her family said in a statement posted on her official...
Will Stevenson Nov 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Honoree Christine McVie of the group Fleetwood Mac performs during the 2018 MusiCares Person of the Year show honoring Fleetwood Mac at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, New York, U.S., January 26, 2018. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
U.S. job openings still elevated; third-quarter GDP revised up
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job openings decreased in October, but remained significantly high, pointing to continued labor market resilience despite the Federal Reserve's efforts to cool demand by ag...
Cooper Banks Nov 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A worker applies tape to a solar panel at First Solar in Perrysburg, Ohio July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Megan Jelinger/File Photo
U.S. House backs legislation to block rail strike
UPDATE: 12:26 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday backed a bill to block a potentially crippling rail strike, but the fate of a separate proposal b...
Julia Bradley Nov 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of gantry cranes, shipping containers, and freight railway trains ahead of a possible strike if there is no deal with the rail worker unions, at the Union Pacific Los Angeles (UPLA) Intermodal Facility rail yard in Commerce, California, U.S., September 15, 2022. REUTERS/Bing Guan//File Photo
Pritzker: Changes to Safe-T Act could come before veto session ends
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. J-B Pritzker is hopeful that state lawmakers will be able to make some tweaks to the Safe-T Act during this week's fall veto session. The session is set to end on Th...
Julia Bradley Nov 30, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
U.S. House Democrats elect Hakeem Jeffries as first Black party leader
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hakeem Jeffries was elected on Wednesday to become the Democratic Party's top leader in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in January, making him the first Black Americ...
Julia Bradley Nov 30, 2022 U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jefferies (D-NY) walks on the day of House Democratic leadership elections on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Michael A. McCoy