Author Archives: TJ Carson

Peoria City to host Mexican soccer club for two matches at Shea Stadium in June
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria City will play against international competition for the first time next month. The club announced Wednesday the inaugural Copa Peoria Series, with two games against the under-23...
TJ Carson May 01, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)

Harvey Weinstein will be retried in New York after rape conviction overturned
(Reuters) -Harvey Weinstein will be retried in New York, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said in court on Wednesday, a week after the state's highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction....
TJ Carson May 01, 2024 Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears at Manhattan Criminal court for his first public appearance since an appeals court overturned his sex crimes conviction in New York City, New York, U.S., May 1, 2024. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado/Pool

US job openings slide to three-year low as demand for labor gradually eases
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - U.S. job openings fell to a three-year low in March, while the number of people quitting their jobs declined, signs of easing labor market conditions that over time could aid the...
TJ Carson May 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign with a QR code is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo

Man injured by glass after shots fired in Peoria's East Bluff Tuesday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Police are investigating a shooting from Tuesday night in Peoria's East Bluff that sent a man to the hospital Peoria Police say ten rounds were fired in the area of the 400-block of Eas...
TJ Carson May 01, 2024

UPDATE: Blinken says US cannot support Rafah assault without humanitarian plan
UPDATED 2:12 P.M. ASHDOD, Israel (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday he has still not seen a plan for Israel's planned offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that...
TJ Carson May 01, 2024 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 1, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool

After 3 years, state poised to enforce law aiming to end lending discrimination
SPRINGFIELD - In 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Community Reinvestment Act, a federal law that sought to wipe away the last vestiges of racial discrimination and redlining in Am...
TJ Carson May 01, 2024 Mario Treto Jr., secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, testifies before the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules in April about the final adoption of rules to implement the 2021 Illinois Community Reinvestment Act. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)

Comcast drops Bally Sports regional sports networks as agreement not reached
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. - Sports fans looking to watch their favorite teams lost an option to do so overnight Tuesday. In a social media post, Diamond Sports Group announced that Comcast has rejected a pr...
TJ Carson May 01, 2024 An on-screen message replaces Bally Sports Midwest on Comcast cable lineups in the Peoria-area. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)

Firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene to force vote to oust US House Speaker Johnson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a conservative firebrand, Wednesday on Wednesday called for a vote to oust Republican Mike Johnson as speaker of the U.S. House ...
TJ Carson May 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) yells out at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) as Jeffries introduces newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) after Johnson was elected to be the new Speaker at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 25, 2023. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo

Wednesday morning fire damages home in East Peoria
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Two animals and a resident were able to escape a house fire in East Peoria Wednesday morning without injury. East Peoria Fire says crews were called to the two-story home just afte...
TJ Carson May 01, 2024 Midwest Communications

UN warns Israel assault on Gaza's Rafah on 'immediate horizon'
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations on Tuesday warned that an Israeli assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip was "on the immediate horizon" and that "incremental" progress by Israel on aid access...
TJ Carson Apr 30, 2024 Humanitarian aid falls through the sky towards the Gaza Strip, after being dropped from an aircraft, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Israel, April 30, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen


