Author Archives: TJ Carson
Highly touted recruit from Dunlap heads south for college football career
DUNLAP, Ill. - One of the most highly-publicized high school football recruitments in central Illinois came to a close last night. 4-star junior tight end Mack Sutter of Dunlap announced Thursday nigh...
Jun 27, 2025 (25 News)
Pritzker speaks to supporters in East Peoria as third-term campaign begins
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker wants a third term leading the Land of Lincoln, and is rallying support across the state to do so. After launching his campaign in Chicago on Thursd...
Jun 26, 2025 Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) smiles as supporters chant his name during an appearance at Illinois Central College's Workforce Sustainability Center on June 26th, 2025. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria mayor stresses investments in city in State of the City address
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Mayor Rita Ali says the city has an "amazing history," and wants to keep it that way with investments. "Investing in Peoria's Future" was the theme of Rita Ali's 2025 "State of t...
Jun 26, 2025 Peoria Mayor Rita Ali delivers the 2025 "State of the City" address at the Peoria Civic Center ballroom. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US Supreme Court backs South Carolina effort to defund Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for South Carolina to strip Planned Parenthood of funding under the Medicaid health insurance program in a ruling that bolsters...
Jun 26, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., November 26, 2021. Picture taken November 26, 2021. REUTERS/Will Dunham/ File Photo
Israel halts aid into northern Gaza, officials say, clans deny Hamas is stealing it
CAIRO/TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Israel has stopped aid from entering northern Gaza but is still allowing it to enter from the south, two officials said on Thursday after images circulated of masked men on a...
Jun 26, 2025 Mourners pray as they attend the funeral of Palestinians killed, in what the Gaza Health Ministry said, were overnight Israeli airstrikes on tents sheltering displaced people, at Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 26, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Man sentenced for shooting in Peoria's East Bluff that paralyzed ex-girlfriend
PEORIA, Ill. - A man has been sentenced for a shooting in Peoria's East Bluff last year that left his former girlfriend paralyzed. 25 News reports Deandre Ward was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wedn...
Jun 25, 2025 Brian Turner / CC
Peoria provides more support and funding to organization helping house homeless population
PEORIA, Ill. - The city of Peoria is providing more funding to reimburse a non-profit organization that's housing homeless people in a motel. City council on Tuesday night approved up to $64,000 to re...
Jun 25, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Three teenagers arrested after two accidently shot in Peoria's East Bluff
PEORIA, Ill. - Three teenagers have been arrested after two of them were accidentally shot Tuesday night in Peoria's East Bluff. Peoria Police says officers responded just after 9:00 P.M. to the area ...
Jun 25, 2025
Man sentenced for role in fatal crash near Peoria shopping center in 2023
PEORIA, Ill. - A Hanna City man has learned his fate after pleading guilty in May to a fatal crash two years ago near the Shoppes of Grand Prairie. 25 News reports Jeremy Perry was sentenced to a tota...
Jun 25, 2025 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Powell says Fed needs to manage against risk tariff inflation proves persistent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration's tariff plans may well just cause a one-time jump in prices, but the risk it could cause more persistent inflation is large enough for the central bank ...
Jun 25, 2025 U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress," on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 25, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt
