Author Archives: TJ Carson
Bodycam footage from fatal officer-involved shooting in East Bluff released
PEORIA, Ill. - Illinois State Police has released bodycam footage relating to a fatal officer involved shooting in Peoria's East Bluff last month. The footage comes from an incident on August 5th wher...
Sep 06, 2025
New mural on downtown Peoria parking garage celebrated
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's community and art leaders came together Friday morning to celebrate the latest mural in the downtown area. "Play Greater" was recently installed on the Adams Street side of the...
Sep 05, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Threat against Morton Jefferson School allegedly made by student investigated
MORTON, Ill. - Morton Police says a threat made against Jefferson School in the past week was determined to be not credible. In a statement, the department says an investigation was opened after the t...
Sep 05, 2025 (Morton Police)
Man arrested for alleged role in July robbery of postal worker
PEORIA, Ill. - A West Peoria man has been arrested in connection to the robbery of a postal worker in July. Peoria Police says 28-year-old Malachi Alexander was arrested on Thursday for Armed Robbery,...
Sep 05, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Hamas releases hostage video, Israel bombs Gaza high-rise
TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Hamas released a video on Friday of two Israeli hostages seized from a music festival in Israel in October 2023, and one said he was being held in Gaza City, where the Israeli mili...
Sep 05, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Idit Ohel, mother of Alon Ohel, 22, who was taken hostage by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas during the deadly October 7 attack, and her family gather with other families of hostages to light candles to mark the first night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, in Karmiel, in northern Israel December 7, 2023. REUTERS/Shir Torem/File Photo
Drought conditions growing in central Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The temperatures are falling across central Illinois but drought is growing. The latest US Drought Monitor report released on Thursday shows abnormally dry conditions in all of Tazew...
Sep 04, 2025 (NOAA/National Weather Service)
Man arrested after allegedly shooting at neighbor in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A man was arrested on numerous weapons charges after allegedly shooting at his neighbor in Central Peoria. Peoria Police says shots were fired Wednesday just after 6:30 P.M. in the area...
Sep 04, 2025 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Pekin man charged in wife's death ordered to remain in jail
PEKIN, Ill. - An elderly Pekin man accused in the death of his wife will remain in jail. 25 News reports a petition to deny pretrial release to 93-year-old James Pate was granted in Tazewell County co...
Sep 04, 2025 (Midwest Communication)
US senators pit Kennedy against Trump on vaccine policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats and Republicans pushed U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's Jr. on his recent vaccine policies and their stark contrast to President Donald Trump's successful firs...
Sep 04, 2025 U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., looks at photographers on the day he testifies before a Senate Finance Committee hearing on President Donald Trump's 2026 health care agenda, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 4, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
US Justice Department opens criminal mortgage fraud probe into Fed Governor Cook
(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department has launched a criminal mortgage fraud probe into Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and has issued grand jury subpoenas out of both Georgia and Michigan, accord...
Sep 04, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Lisa Cook testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on her nomination to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (for a second term), on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 21, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
