Author Archives: TJ Carson
US Senate panels launch probe into Trump 'quid pro quo' with energy execs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate finance and budget committees on Thursday launched an investigation into presidential candidate Donald Trump's reported offer to roll back a slew of environmental...
May 24, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech during a tour of the Double Eagle Energy Oil Rig in Midland, Texas, U.S., July 29, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
World Court orders Israel to halt assault on Gaza's Rafah
THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Judges at the top United Nations court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, in a landmark emergency ruling in Sout...
May 24, 2024 A general view inside the Court of Justice (ICJ), at the start of a hearing where South Africa requests new emergency measures over Israel's attacks on Rafah, as part of an ongoing case South Africa filed at the ICJ in December last year accusing Israel of violating the Genocide Convention during its offensive against Palestinians in Gaza, in The Hague Netherlands May 17, 2024. REUTERS/Yves Herman/ File Photo
Peoria International Airport preparing for increase in travelers for Memorial Day holiday
PEORIA, Ill. - Travel is expected to pick up across the country during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, and Peoria International Airport is no exception. Director Gene Olson says while this holiday w...
May 23, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man sentenced to prison for fatal shooting on 4th of July three years ago
PEORIA, Ill. - A man could spend the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced for a 4th of July murder three years ago. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 21-year-old Eric Jackso...
May 23, 2024 Eric Jackson (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail 2021)
Traffic affected by construction projects in Peoria-area after Memorial Day holiday
PEORIA, Ill. - Two major road construction projects are expected to impact traffic next week after the Memorial Day holiday. IDOT announced that overnight full closures of I-474 at Airport Road will s...
May 23, 2024 (Illinois Department of Transportation)
CEFCU settles with Department of Justice after alleged Americans with Disabilities Act violations
PEORIA, Ill. - CEFCU has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice after alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The credit union was accused in a complaint that it refuse...
May 23, 2024 (25 News)
"Super" window washers visit OSF Children's Hospital to put smiles on patients
PEORIA, Ill. - Superheroes scaled the walls of OSF Children's Hospital on Thursday to put smiles on the faces of patients. Two window washers from Clearly Windows in Bloomington did their job at the h...
May 23, 2024 Window washers dressed as the Green Lantern and Batman clean windows at OSF Children's Hospital on May 23rd, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Advocates underscore need for statewide reentry programs
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois legislators this week approved a bill to restructure an oversight board in charge of distributing state money to courts that provide prison alterna...
May 23, 2024 Antonio Lightfoot, deputy director at the nonprofit Workers Center for Racial Justice, speaks at a news conference in the Illinois State Capitol. Advocates wore orange jumpsuits to symbolize the restrictions placed on people who return to society from prison. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Dilpreet Raju)
Live Nation 'suffocates its competition,' US says in monopoly lawsuit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department and a group of 30 states and the District of Columbia Thursday sued to break up Live Nation, arguing the big concert promoter and its Ticketmaster uni...
May 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Concertgoers watch a performance by Post Malone at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, U.S., April 14, 2018. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo
Man accused of being in possession of pipe bombs in Pekin ordered to remain in jail
PEKIN, Ill. - A Tazewell County judge has ordered a man alleged to have had pipe bombs to remain in jail until his trial. 25 News reports 34-year-old Dalton Mattus will be back in court June 20th afte...
May 22, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
