Author Archives: TJ Carson
UPDATE: Peoria County correctional officer fired after allegedly bringing contraband to detainee
UPDATED 6:38 P.M. PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - A correctional officer at the Peoria County Jail has been fired after allegedly bringing a detainee contraband. Sheriff Chris Watkins says 25-year-old Ezekiel H...
Mar 14, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriffs Department)
UPDATE: 17-year-olds arrested for November homicide at Peoria apartment complex to be tried as adults
UPDATED 6:49 P.M. Two teenagers have been arrested in connection to a homicide last November at a Peoria apartment complex. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says Dayquan Diggs and Harringto...
Mar 14, 2025 Peoria Peoria Chief Eric Echevarria and Peoria County State's Attorney Jodi Hoos appear together on March 14thannounce arrests in connection to a fatal shooting at the Wood Sage Apartments. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Christian, Manual each fall short of state championships in semifinals
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Two Peoria high school boys' basketball teams each ended up two games short of a state title on Thursday. Manual fell to Chicago Dyett in the IHSA Class 2A state semifinals, 54-50, a...
Mar 13, 2025 (Peoria Christian Athletics)
In remarks to teachers union, Pritzker lashes out at Trump's education cuts
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday delivered more harsh criticism against President Donald Trump's administration over attempts to drastically downsize, and possi...
Mar 13, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker lashes out at the Trump administrations over mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education and its attempts to dismantle the agency during remarks to a gathering of Illinois Education Association officials on Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Credit: Illinois.gov)
US judge orders Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired workers
(Reuters) - A California federal judge on Thursday ordered six U.S. agencies to reinstate thousands of recently hired employees who lost their jobs as part of President Donald Trump's purge of the fed...
Mar 13, 2025 FILE PHOTO: San Francisco residents photograph a group of protesters during a demonstration as part of a nationwide series of protests against the mass firings of employees in a campaign by President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk to radically cut back the U.S. bureaucracy, at Fort Mason Park in San Francisco, California, U.S. March 1, 2025. REUTERS/Yuri Avila/File Photo
Protesters occupy Trump Tower following arrest of Columbia student
(Reuters) -Scores of people poured into the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday to protest the arrest and detention of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, whom the Trump administ...
Mar 13, 2025 Police officers detain protesters inside Trump Tower during a rally against the ICE detention of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City, U.S., March 13, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
Goodwill of Central Illinois introduces program to help with employment for neurodiverse adults
PEORIA, Ill. - A program from Goodwill of Central Illinois aims to help neurodiverse young adults succeed in the workplace. Beyond Barriers is an employment program that helps develop skills in such a...
Mar 13, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Summer Camp organizers announce cancellation of festival for 2025
PEORIA, Ill. - The reimagined Summer Camp Music Festival will not take place this year. In a Facebook post on Thursday, organizers announced that "a variety of factors" did not allow for Summer Camp t...
Mar 13, 2025 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD -Rick Hirschmann)
US Senate Democrats debate path forward on government funding bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Democrats were wrestling on Wednesday with how to respond to a stopgap funding bill passed by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, choosing between vot...
Mar 12, 2025 U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks with reporters following the Senate Democrats' weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 11, 2025.
Teenager arrested on Peoria's South Side on weapons charges Tuesday afternoon
PEORIA, Ill. - Two teenagers were taken into custody on Peoria's South Side Tuesday afternoon, one of which on weapons charges. Peoria Police says officers were called at around 4:30 P.M. in the area ...
Mar 12, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
