Author Archives: TJ Carson
Alaska man arrested for threatening six US Supreme Court justices
(Reuters) - An Alaska man has been arrested on charges that he threatened to assault, kidnap and murder six U.S. Supreme Court justices and some of their family members in online messages that contain...
Sep 19, 2024 U.S. Supreme Court police officers stand on the front steps of the Supreme Court building prior to the official investiture ceremony for the court's newest Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and the start of the court's 2022-2023 term in Washington, U.S. September 30, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
State wraps up case in challenge to assault weapons ban
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A federal judge invoked images from the 1917 race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois, on Thursday at the end of a trial in a case challenging the constitu...
Sep 19, 2024 The U.S. District Courthouse is pictured in East St. Louis (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Mother of one-month-old son who died in Peoria ordered to remain in jail
PEORIA, Ill. - A Chicago woman charged with First Degree Murder in the death of her son in Peoria this week has been ordered to remain in jail. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says a petit...
Sep 19, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria looking to purchase downtown property at Tuesday's city council meeting
PEORIA, Ill. - The city of Peoria is looking to acquire property in the downtown area. An agenda item on Tuesday's meeting includes a resolution to purchase the Tower on Adams property for more than o...
Sep 19, 2024 (City of Peoria)
UPDATE: One person dead after crash in Tazewell County
UPDATED 4:17 P.M. TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - A 62-year-old woman from Pekin is the victim in a fatal accident near South Pekin Thursday morning. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley says the name of th...
Sep 19, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Hezbollah chief denounces Israeli attacks as warplane sonic booms rattle Beirut
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Deadly Israeli attacks that blew up Hezbollah radios and pagers crossed all red lines, the leader of the heavily armed Iran-backed Lebanese movement said on Thursday, in a ...
Sep 19, 2024 People watch Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivering a televised address, as they sit at a cafe in Sidon, Lebanon September 19, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
Audit reveals WTVP received more grant funding than it should have
PEORIA, Ill. - An audit from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Office of the Inspector General audit reveals that Peoria public television station WTVP did not fully comply with CPB requiremen...
Sep 18, 2024 (25 News)
Gun expert says assault weapons ban 'describes the most popular firearms I'm involved with'
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A firearms expert testified Wednesday that the weapons restricted under Illinois' assault weapons ban include many of the most common firearms that Ameri...
Sep 18, 2024 The federal courthouse for the Southern District of Illinois is pictured in East St. Louis. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
UPDATE: Chicago woman charged with murder in connection to death of infant son in Peoria
UPDATED 5:14 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A Chicago woman has been charged with murder in connection to the death of her infant son in Peoria on Monday. Court and jail records show that 25-year-old Andrea Lunc...
Sep 18, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Teamsters make 'no endorsement' in US presidential race
UPDATED 2:34 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Teamsters union executive board said on Wednesday that the union will not endorse any U.S. presidential candidate despite polling that showed a majority of ...
Sep 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Teamsters union members march in the annual Labor Day Parade in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., September 2, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
