Author Archives: TJ Carson
South Korean workers return home a week after immigration raid to hugs and cheers
INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - Some 300 South Korean workers returned home on Friday to emotional reunions with families, one week after being detained in a major U.S. immigration raid that left som...
Sep 12, 2025 A South Korean worker who was detained in a huge immigration raid last week at the site of a U.S. car battery project involving Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution in the U.S. state of Georgia, hugs a family member in the long term parking lot at the Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, September 12, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Soo-hyeon
Former Peoria liquor store owner found guilty of withholding tax revenues
PEORIA, Ill. - A federal jury has convicted a former Peoria liquor store owner of trying to defraud the government out of tax revenue. 61-year-old Jalal Nimer Asad of Lindenhurst was found guilty Wedn...
Sep 11, 2025 courtroom gavel
Tremont superintendent says rumored threat to safety not "credible"
TREMONT, Ill. - The superintendent of Tremont District 702 says rumors of threats to school safety were determined to be not "credible or legitimate." 25 News reports that Sean Berry sent an email to ...
Sep 11, 2025 (Tremont Community Unit School District)
Court allows Trump administration to end Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding
BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal appeals court cleared the way on Thursday for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to implement a provision of his recently enacted tax and spending bill that would...
Sep 11, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A sign is pictured at the entrance to a Planned Parenthood building in New York August 31, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/ File Photo
Former President Bush advisor who informed of 9/11 attacks to help with Peoria Riverfront Museum exhibit
PEORIA, Ill. - A new exhibit at the Peoria Riverfront Museum next year will coincide with the anniversary of one of the worst attacks ever on American soil. The museum will partner with the 9/11 Memor...
Sep 11, 2025 Andrew Card speaks at a memorial ceremony on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks at the Peoria Riverfront Museum. Card informed former President George W. Bush of the attacks at a Florda school, and is part of one of the most well-known photos from the day. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
U.S. authorities find rifle, release photos in hunt for killer of Charlie Kirk
OREM, Utah (Reuters) - U.S. investigators said on Thursday they had found the bolt-action rifle they believed was used to kill the influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk and released images of...
Sep 11, 2025 A memorial is held for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed in Utah, at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. September 10, 2025. REUTERS/Caitlin O'Hara
Illinois State Police troopers injured in Cedar Street Bridge crash Thursday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Illinois State Police troopers were injured in a crash on the Cedar Street Bridge on Thursday morning. State police says the three-vehicle crash occurred just after 6:00 A.M. No inf...
Sep 11, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Man found guilty in 2022 fatal shooting death of teenager near former Quest Charter Academy
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has been found guilty in the shooting death of a teenager nearly three years ago. 25 News reports that 21-year-old Erick Jackson was convicted Wednesday of First Degree Mur...
Sep 10, 2025 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Under emergency rule, Illinois prisons begin withholding physical mail
Article Summary The Illinois Department of Corrections has begun scanning prisoners' mail to crack down on contraband in prisons. The emergency rule change came after prison worker exposures and overd...
Sep 10, 2025 Pinckneyville Correctional Center is pictured in southern Illinois. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
UPDATE: Local and state politicans react to fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, LaHood calls him "inspiration" to young people
UPDATED 6:26 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's Republican Congressman says the death of conservative activist and commentator Charlie Kirk is a "huge loss" for America and conservative principals. The Turn...
Sep 10, 2025 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
