Author Archives: TJ Carson
Peoria City Council approves downtown redevelopment project to add housing
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria CIty Council has given approval for a developer to convert empty downtown store fronts into housing. The council approved in consent agenda a proposal to turn the first floor...
Jul 22, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria County grand jury indicts father in death of infant son in South Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A man accused in the death of his infant son has been indicted by a Peoria County grand jury. 41-year-old Dwayne Davis was indicted for First Degree Murder Tuesday in the death of seven...
Jul 22, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Woman arrested in Pekin after allegedly attempting to solicit a murder
PEKIN, Ill. - Pekin Police have arrested a woman after allegedly attempting to solicit a murder. Allison Salinas was arrested Tuesday afternoon by Pekin Police after a two week investigation that bega...
Jul 22, 2025 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Lakeview Park splash pad opens to the public
PEORIA, Ill. - There's a new place for central Illinois kids to cool down as the dog days of summer arrive. The Peoria Park District cut the ribbon Tuesday morning on Lakeview Park's new splash pad wh...
Jul 22, 2025 Summer campers from the Peoria Park District enjoy the new splash pad at Lakeview Park. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath's bat-biting frontman, dies aged 76, BBC reports
(Reuters) -Ozzy Osbourne, frontman of 1970s heavy metal band Black Sabbath, earned his infamy biting the head off a bat on stage and pursuing a drug-fuelled lifestyle before reinventing himself as a l...
Jul 22, 2025 Commonwealth Games - Closing Ceremony - Alexander Stadium, Birmingham, Britain - August 8, 2022 Ozzy Osbourne performs during the closing ceremony REUTERS/Hannah Mckay
Following state rep's encounter, Pritzker signs 'squatter bill' into law
Article Summary A new Illinois law allows police to remove squatters from a person's home for criminal trespassing. State law previously required property owners to go through a lengthy eviction proce...
Jul 22, 2025 Pritzker signed the bill after Rep. Marcus Evans, D-Chicago, had a first-hand encounter with squatters recently. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
West Peoria officially opens new City Hall building
WEST PEORIA, Ill. - There's a new home for government in West Peoria. City leaders on Monday night cut the ribbon on a brand new City Hall building, at the corner of Rohmann and Sterling. The new buil...
Jul 21, 2025 West Peoria leaders cut the ribbon on the city's new City Hall building. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Former ComEd CEO sentenced to 2 years for bribery scheme targeted at Madigan
Article Summary Former Commonwealth Edison CEO Anne Pramaggiore has been sentenced to 24 months in prison in addition to a $750,000 fine - the second of the "ComEd Four" to face sentencing after their...
Jul 21, 2025 Former Commonwealth Edison CEO Anne Pramaggiore walks out of Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Monday, July 21, after being sentenced to two years in prison and a $750,000 fine in connection to a bribery scheme centered on former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Pro- and anti-Trump supporters make voices heard in Fulton County
CANTON, Ill. - Fulton County's largest city was the site of political protesters from both sides of the aisle on Sunday. 25 News reports the Fulton County 50501 Movement had organized a "Good Trouble"...
Jul 21, 2025 (25 News)
'Cosby Show' star Malcolm-Jamal Warner dies by drowning at 54
LOS ANGELES/SAN JOSE (Reuters) -American actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Bill Cosby's son Theo on the 1980s groundbreaking television hit "The Cosby Show," died at age 54 on Monday by drowning,...
Jul 21, 2025 Actor and recording artist Malcolm-Jamal Warner poses at the BAFTA Los Angeles TV Tea in Los Angeles, California September 19, 2015. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/File Photo
