Author Archives: TJ Carson
Peoria City Council doesn't reconsider grocery tax
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria grocery tax is here to stay. A proposal by Councilman Zach Oyler to reconsider the tax at Tuesday night's meeting was not discussed, after no other member seconded the motion...
May 13, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man found guilty in shooting death of teenager two years ago during robbery
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County jury has found a man guilty of killing a teenager during an attempted robbery two years ago. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 24-year-old Tramier Pate wa...
May 13, 2025 Tramier Pate (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and 19 other Democratic attorneys general filed a pair of lawsuits Tuesday against Trump administration policies desig...
May 13, 2025 Attorney General Kwame Raoul listens to debate in the Illinois House in May 2023. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Trump says US to lifts Syria sanctions, secures $600 billion Saudi deal
RIYADH (Reuters) - President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the U.S. will lift long-standing sanctions on Syria, and secured a $600 billion commitment from Saudi Arabia to invest in the United...
May 13, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
UPDATE: Grandy jury indicts Peoria woman in death of toddler
UPDATED 4:44 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria woman has been indicted in the death of her son from last week, and the alleged abuse against the boy's twin sister. A Peoria County grand jury on Tuesday ind...
May 13, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Canadian electric bus company establishes presence in Greater Peoria region
WASHINGTON D.C./PEORIA, Ill. - The Greater Peoria region will be the home to the first United States facility for a Canadian transit company. Governor J.B Pritzker on Tuesday announced an investment b...
May 13, 2025 (Karsan Damera)
Pekin swears in new city council and honors late City Clerk
PEKIN, Ill. - The Pekin City Council on Monday night swore-in its new members, honored its departing ones, and remembered a "pillar of the community." Monday night was the final city council meeting f...
May 12, 2025 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Record-breaking weekend of comedy and music at Peoria Civic Center
PEORIA, Ill. - There was a lot of laughter from the Peoria Civic Center on Saturday The Civic Center says more than 18,000 people attended the two shows by comedian Nate Bargatze, setting a single-day...
May 12, 2025 (Dalton Kemper/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Republicans float new tax breaks for tips, local taxes in Trump budget package
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in the U.S. Congress proposed new tax breaks for tipped income, overtime pay, private school tuition, seniors, and state and local taxes on Monday as they fleshed out...
May 12, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) looks on, after President Donald Trump delivered remarks on tariffs, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Video shows Sean 'Diddy' Combs hitting and kicking then-girlfriend in hotel hallway
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jurors in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial viewed a 2016 video on Monday in which the hip-hop mogul assaults his then-girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, throws her to the grou...
May 12, 2025 Justin Combs and Quincy Brown walk, on the first day in the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs on sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges at U.S. court in Manhattan, in New York City, U.S., May 12, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Segar
