Author Archives: TJ Carson
Peoria man pleads guilty in relation to his daughter's death in 2022
PEORIA, Ill. - A man has pleaded guilty to First Degree Murder in relation to the death of his daughter in Peoria two years ago. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 27-year-old Shamari Wi...
May 06, 2024 courtroom gavel
Peoria County jury awards girl $2 million for negligent procedure when she was a baby
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County jury has awarded $2 million for a 13-year-old girl after it found a pediatric surgeon at OSF Children's Hospital negligent. In a statement Monday from Romanucci and Blan...
May 06, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Biden meets Jordan's King Abdullah amid no agreement over ceasefire proposal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden is meeting Middle East ally, Jordan's King Abdullah II, at the White House on Monday as Hamas said it accepted a ceasefire proposal but Israel said it was una...
May 06, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about student protests at U.S. universities, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, during brief remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 2, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Teenager pleads guilty for role in Bartonville shooting incident in February
PEORIA, Ill. - A 17-year-old had pleaded guilty for his role in a February shooting in Bartonville that injured two teenagers. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says Donald Grant pleaded gui...
May 06, 2024 courtroom gavel
Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce head stepping down
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce will be looking for a new leader. The chamber announced Monday that President and CEO Joshua Gunn will be stepping down from the role on May 31st. He...
May 06, 2024 Joshua Gunn speaking at event to speak of results from The Big Table/T.J. Carson 1470 and 100.3 WMBD
Holocaust survivors march in Auschwitz in shadow of Oct 7 attacks
OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Several thousand Jews, including Holocaust survivors personally affected by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, walked through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp ...
May 06, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A wooden guard tower is pictured at the site of former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau during ceremonies marking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2022. Jakub Porzycki/Agencja Wyborcza.pl via REUTERS/File Photo
Peoria Rivermen and fans come together to celebrate team's 2024 President's Cup championship
PEORIA, Ill. - Players and fans of the Peoria Rivermen came together to celebrate the team's second Southern Professional Hockey League title in three years. The Rivermen won the President's Cup on Su...
May 03, 2024 Members of the Peoria Rivermen ride a fire truck on Jefferson St. during the parade for the 2023-24 SPHL President's Cup champions. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UN agencies prepare for Rafah incursion, warn of 'slaughter'
GENEVA (Reuters) -An Israeli incursion in Rafah would put the lives of hundreds of thousands of Gazans at risk and be a huge blow to the aid operations of the entire enclave, the U.N. humanitarian off...
May 03, 2024 Mourners react next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 3, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
US Rep. Cuellar hit with bribery charges tied to Azerbaijan, Mexican bank
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted for allegedly accepting close to $600,000 in bribes in two schemes meant to benefit an Azerbaijani state-owned energ...
May 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) questions Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on the DHS budget request on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2024. REUTERS/Michael A. McCoy/File Photo
Democrats flex muscle to kick off final month of session as revenues remain on track
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - With about three weeks to go before the Illinois General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn its spring legislative session, supermajority Democrats showed the...
May 03, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at the Illinois Retail Merchants Association and Illinois Manufacturers’ Association business day in Springfield on Wednesday, May 1. At another event this week, he said “I feel pretty good about where we are” when asked about the state’s April revenue performance. (Capitol News Illinois phot by Jerry Nowicki)
