Author Archives: TJ Carson
Fire damages apartment above Peoria bakery
PEORIA, Ill. - No one was injured after an apartment fire Friday morning in Peoria above a commercial building. Peoria Fire says crews were called to the fire above the Panaderia Ortiz Bakery and Pizz...
Apr 25, 2025 (25 News)
US charges Milwaukee judge with obstructing immigration arrest in Trump crackdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. officials arrested a Wisconsin judge on Friday and charged her with helping a man in her court evade immigration authorities in an escalating dispute between President Donal...
Apr 25, 2025 Hannah Dugan speaks as she was seeking election to Milwaukee County Circuit Court during a forum at the Milwaukee Bar Association in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., March 15, 2016. Mike De Sisti / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images via REUTERS/File Photo
Victims of South Pekin double homicide identified
SOUTH PEKIN, Ill. - Two 21-year-old men have been identified as the victims in a fatal shooting in South Pekin early Thursday morning. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley says the victims are Chase...
Apr 24, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Sorensen visits Midwest Food Bank in Peoria to discuss food insecurity
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria-area Congressman is raising concerns over food insecurity with a visit to a food bank. 17th District Congressman Eric Sorensen (D-Moline) visited the Midwest Food Bank in Peori...
Apr 24, 2025 17th District Congressman Eric Sorensen (D-Moline) (left) and Midwest Food Bank CEO Eric Hodel (right) chat during a tour of the organization's Peoria facility. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US judge blocks Trump from withholding funds from 16 'sanctuary' cities, counties
(Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday blocked Donald Trump's administration from withholding federal funding from more than a dozen so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that have declined to cooperate w...
Apr 24, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump looks on, as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Judge partly blocks Trump order imposing new rules on US elections
(Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked parts of President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to impose new rules on federal elections, which Democrats and other groups said risked denying eli...
Apr 24, 2025 People vote in the 2024 U.S. presidential election on Election Day in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., November 5, 2024. REUTERS/Megan Jelinger/File Photo
Date set for murder trial of former Sangamon County deputy to take place in Peoria County
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A date has been set for the murder trial of a former Sangamon County sheriff's deputy, set to take place in Peoria County. At a hearing Wednesday, the trial of Sean Grayson was sch...
Apr 24, 2025 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump and Zelenskiy clash again and US warns it could abandon Ukraine talks
WASHINGTON/LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy clashed again on Wednesday on efforts to end the three-year-old war in Ukraine, with the U.S...
Apr 23, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a press conference, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2025. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Photo
Former Reditus Labs CEO pleas guilty in two cases
PEORIA, Ill. - The former CEO of Reditus Labs has entered plea deals in two pending cases. 25 News reports Aaron Rossi has pleaded guilty to one count each of healthcare fraud and wire fraud in his fe...
Apr 23, 2025 (25 News)
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin announces he will not seek re-election
CHICAGO, Ill. - U.S. Senator Dick Durbin will not seek another term in office. The Democrat announced in a video on Wednesday that his current term, his 5th in the Senate that expires in 2026, will be...
Apr 23, 2025 U.S Senator Dick Durbin speaks in front of the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research against proposed cuts by the Trump administration to the facility. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
