Author Archives: TJ Carson
Pekin students reveal project telling stories and wisdom from Tazewell County veterans
PEKIN, Ill. - For the past four months, students at Pekin Community High School spent time with veterans in Tazewell County to learn about their stories and share their wisdom. "Honoring the Veterans ...
May 29, 2024 Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman and Pekin Community High School students unveil a project to tell stories and wisdom from veterans in the county. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Chillicothe man dies after motorcycle crash over Memorial Day weekend
CHILLICOTHE TOWNSHIP, Ill. - A Chillicothe man died after a crash north of the town on Saturday night while on his motorcycle. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says 37-year-old Nathan Knop was pron...
May 29, 2024
Peoria Park District's summer initiative for safe activities set to get underway
PEORIA, Ill. - A summer tradition of safe family fun in Peoria's parks returns this week. For more than two decades, the Streets Belong to Me initiative from the Peoria Park District aims to give kids...
May 28, 2024 (Peoria Park District)
Peoria Heights looking for three people in connection to shooting incident Sunday evening
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Peoria Heights Police are looking for three people allegedly involved in a shooting at a gas station late-Sunday afternoon. Police say shots were fired just before 5:45 P.M. at ...
May 28, 2024 (Peoria Heights Police)
Autopsy conducted on woman found in river last Friday afternoon in Hollis Township
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - The cause of death of a Peoria woman who was found in a river last Friday afternoon has been revealed, but questions around her death remain. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood ...
May 28, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Lawmakers move to pause - then further regulate - carbon dioxide pipeline development
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - After state regulators rebuffed several proposed carbon transport projects over the past year, lawmakers have moved to formally ban new projects until the f...
May 28, 2024 Sen. Laura Fine, D-Glenview, and an aide watch as Sen. Michael Halpin, D-Rock Island, explains why he will vote no on her bill to regulate the carbon capture and sequestration industry. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
T-Mobile to buy US Cellular's wireless operations in $4.4 billion deal
(Reuters) -T-Mobile will buy almost all of regional carrier United States Cellular's wireless operations including customers, stores and 30% of its spectrum assets in a deal valued at $4.4 billion, th...
May 28, 2024 A T-Mobile store is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York, New York, U.S., May 20, 2019. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Gaza officials say Israeli tanks shell evacuation zone near Rafah, Israel denies it
CAIRO (Reuters) - Israel's military denied striking a tent camp west of the city of Rafah on Tuesday after Gaza health authorities said Israeli tank shelling had killed at least 21 people there, in wh...
May 28, 2024 A tank manoeuvres near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Israel, May 27, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
US consumer confidence improves; inflation concerns linger
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. consumer confidence unexpectedly improved in May after deteriorating for three straight months amid optimism about the labor market, but worries about inflation persisted an...
May 28, 2024 People carrying shopping bags walk inside the King of Prussia shopping mall, as shoppers show up early for the Black Friday sales, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, U.S. November 26, 2021. REUTERS/Rachel Wisniewski
Memorial Day ceremonies in Morton and Peoria honor those who served and those who gave it all
MORTON/PEORIA, Ill. - Tazewell County took the time on Memorial Day to honor those from the "Greatest Generation" who are still alive. 14 veterans of World War 2 took the stage at Morton High School's...
May 27, 2024 World War 2 veterans living in Tazewell County shared a stage at Morton High School on Memorial Day. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
