Author Archives: TJ Carson
Citizens get peek at proposed Washington amphitheater project
WASHINGTON, Ill. - The public received its first look at Washington's proposed amphitheater Wednesday night. An open house at Five Points showed people renderings, with city leaders on hand to answer ...
Jan 23, 2025 (City of Washington--Facebook page)
US judge blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order
SEATTLE (Reuters) -A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from implementing an executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship ...
Jan 23, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump stands after delivering remarks on AI infrastructure at the Roosevelt room at White House in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
In closing arguments, prosecutor alleges Madigan was driven by 'power and profit'
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - As prosecutors began their closing arguments Wednesday in the trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, they accused the longtime Democratic power...
Jan 23, 2025 Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Jan. 7, 2025, after his first day of surprise testimony in his corruption trial. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Ismael M. Belkoura)
Nashville school shooting leaves two dead, including shooter
(Reuters) - A teenage boy on Wednesday opened fire inside a Tennessee high school, killing one student and wounding another before taking his own life, police said. Nashville police said in a statemen...
Jan 22, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Supreme Court considers legality of law banning 'venue shopping' in constitutional challenges
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case centered on whether a state law passed in 2023 violates the due process rights of Illinois...
Jan 22, 2025 A statue is pictured outside the Illinois Supreme Court building in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois file photo.)
Suspect in Peoria's 1st homicide of 2025 ordered detained, charged with murder
PEORIA, Ill. - The man accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend Sunday at a Peoria apartment complex has now been charged with First Degree Murder. A judge also ruled Wednesday that 45-year-old Derr...
Jan 22, 2025 (Peoria Co. Jail)
US military preparing to send additional 1,500 troops to border, officials say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military is preparing to send roughly 1,500 additional active-duty troops to the border with Mexico, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, just two days after President Dona...
Jan 22, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Members of the Texas National Guard stand guard near the border wall between Mexico and the United States, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, January 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File photo
Police looking for semi-truck in alleged hit-and-run incident in Morton
MORTON, Ill. - Morton Police are looking for the vehicle responsible for a hit-and-run incident Tuesday afternoon. Police say a semi-truck pulling a white trailer struck a white SUV just after 1:15 P....
Jan 22, 2025 (Morton Police)
Efficiency technologies for farming on display in Tremont
TREMONT, Ill. - Efficiency in the field is the main focus of a conference in Tremont this week that is bringing in farmers from across North America. Farmers from the United States and Canada, as well...
Jan 22, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Hamas' tight grip on Gaza complicates plan for lasting peace
CAIRO (Reuters) - In neighbourhoods levelled by 15 months of war with Israel, Hamas officials are overseeing the clearance of rubble in the wake of Sunday's ceasefire. The group's gunmen are guarding ...
Jan 22, 2025 Palestinians make their way past the rubble of destroyed houses and buildings, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
