Author Archives: TJ Carson
Teenager from Bloomington-Normal area identified as drowning victim from Saturday in Bartonville
PEORIA, Ill. - A 14-year-old from the Bloomington-Normal area has been identified as the victim found in the Illinois River Saturday near Bartonville. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says the body...
Jul 08, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Sen. Menendez put power up for sale, prosecutor says as corruption trial closes
UPDATED 2:53 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bob Menendez "put his power up for sale" and helped businessmen who showered the once-powerful senator and his wife with bribes, a prosecutor said on Monday in h...
Jul 08, 2024 U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, (D-NJ) arrives at Federal Court, for his bribery trial in connection with an alleged corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen, in New York City, U.S., July 8, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Multiple house fires reported throughout Peoria this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Fire Department was called out multiple times this weekend. This first incident was to a house in Peoria's East Bluff, that was determined to be a total loss, on Saturday mor...
Jul 07, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
East Peoria police arrest man in relation to opening mailboxes
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A 34-year-old man was given a notice to appear on charges relating to going through mailboxes in East Peoria. East Peoria Police say officers on June 26th noticed an "overwhelming ...
Jul 05, 2024 (File/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Gun found in vehicle in downtown Peoria leads to arrests early Friday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - Two men were arrested after a firearm was found early Friday in an unoccupied vehicle in downtown Peoria. Police say a Glock handgun was reportedly seen by officers in the vehicle durin...
Jul 05, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Mocking Trump, Biden dismisses critics and tells Wisconsin rally he's staying in the race
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, scrambling to defuse a political crisis over his shaky debate performance, mocked and criticized Donald Trump at a rally on Friday in a spirited...
Jul 05, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden gestures from a White House balcony with Vice President Kamala Harris during an Independence Day celebration in Washington, U.S., July 4, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Wisconsin top court's new liberal majority allows for ballot drop boxes
(Reuters) -A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for voters to be able to return absentee ballots through drop boxes, with the court's new liberal majority overturning a decision...
Jul 05, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Unused privacy booths are seen at a voting site in Tripp Commons inside the Memorial Union building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Election Day in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, U.S. November 3, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo
Fire damages Peoria Heights house early Friday morning
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Fireworks in a garbage can are being blamed for a house fire in Peoria Heights early Friday morning. Peoria Heights Fire responded to Wilson and Illinois just after 12:45 A.M. o...
Jul 05, 2024 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man falls onto rooftop after escaping through window at OSF Healthcare Saint Francis
PEORIA, Ill. - A patient at OSF Healthcare Saint Francis Medical Center went out of a window yesterday Thursday morning. In a statement from the hospital, the hospitalized man forced his way out of a ...
Jul 05, 2024 (OSF HealthCare)
Pekin reveals contents of time capsule from America's bicentennial
PEKIN, Ill. - The city of Pekin, literally, dug up its past this week. The city has recovered a time capsule buried in the ground from 1976, America's bicentennial. The unveiling of the capsule's cont...
Jul 04, 2024 Tables display items that were contained in a time capsule from 1976 in Pekin. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
