Author Archives: TJ Carson
Pekin man pleads guilty in connection to November 2023 death of infant daughter
PEKIN, Ill. - A Pekin man had pleaded guilty in connection to the death of his infant daughter from November of 2023. In a statement, Tazewell County State's Attorney Kevin Johnson says 20-year-old Hu...
Sep 16, 2024 Hunter Waters (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Tazewell County Jail via 25 News)
UPDATE: Victims from Sunday afternoon homicide/suicide in Peoria identified
UPDATED 4:24 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The identities of the two people who died in a homicide and suicide from Sunday afternoon have been identified. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says 47-year-old Vi...
Sep 16, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
One person injured after crash involved Peoria fire truck
PEORIA, Ill. - One person was injured after a crash involving a Peoria fire truck Monday morning. Fire Chief Shawn Sollberger says the crash occurred in the area of Western and Martin Luther King Driv...
Sep 16, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Gunman charged in latest Trump apparent assassination attempt, CNN reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Monday criminally charged the gunman suspected of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump, a day after he was spotted with a rifle hiding in the bushes at ...
Sep 16, 2024 Police officers stand outside the Paul G Rogers Federal Building U.S. Courthouse, ahead of a possible planned court appearance for Ryan W. Routh, the reported suspect in an apparent assassination attempt on Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump, in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. September 16, 2024. REUTERS/Marco Bello
A year after end of cash bail, early research shows impact less than many hoped or feared
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - One year after Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate the use of cash bail, the impact on the state's criminal justice system appears to...
Sep 13, 2024 Loyola University of Chicago Center for Criminal Justice Co-Director David Olson speaks at an event in Springfield about the one-year anniversary of the Pretrial Fairness Act. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Trump pledges to deport Haitians from Ohio city; Biden calls for attacks to stop
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pledged to conduct mass deportations of Haitian immigrants from the Ohio city of Springfield shortl...
Sep 13, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a press conference at Trump National Golf Club, in Rancho Palos Verdes, U.S., September 13, 2024. REUTERS/David Swanson/File Photo
Justin Timberlake pleads guilty to lesser charge after drunk driving arrest
(Reuters) - Pop star Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty in a New York State court on Friday to a lesser traffic charge than drunk driving after he was arrested over the summer when police spotted him fa...
Sep 13, 2024 Singer Justin Timberlake appears with his lawyer Edward Burke at a hearing related to a DWI arrest in the Sag Harbor Village Court in Sag Harbor, New York, U.S., September 13, 2024. T E McMorrow/Pool via REUTERS
On witness stand, former AT&T lobbyist describes how Madigan ally got $22,500 contract
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The day before Thanksgiving in 2016, then-AT&T Illinois president Paul La Schiazza read some news that frustrated him. It seemed that energy giant Exelon, t...
Sep 13, 2024 Retired AT&T Illinois lobbyist Steve Selcke leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Thursday with his attorneys after testifying in the bribery case of his former boss Paul La Schiazza. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
Georgia judge dismisses two criminal counts against Trump, court filing shows
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Georgia judge on Thursday dismissed two criminal counts in the U.S. state's 2020 election interference case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and one other...
Sep 12, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Trump National Golf Club, in Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S., August 15, 2024. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo
West Peoria youth behavioral health facility to soon open its doors
WEST PEORIA, Ill. - The doors to a state-of-the-art behavioral health facility for youth in central Illinois is close to opening its doors. Leaders from Carle Health and the community cut the ceremoni...
Sep 12, 2024 Leaders from Carle Health and the community cut the ribbon on the Trillium Place Youth Minds Center, at the former Heddington Oaks location. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
