Author Archives: TJ Carson
Park-A-Palooza to return for second year on Peoria Riverfront in June
PEORIA, Ill. - For the second year in a row, the Peoria Riverfront will be host to a family-friendly three-day event. Park-A-Palooza from the Peoria Park District will take place from June 6-8 on the ...
Apr 08, 2024 (Peoria Park District via Facebook)
Fon Du Lac Park District police chief fired. Here's what we know
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The Fon du Lac Park District is looking for a new police chief. 25 News reports Chief Chance Barlow was let go during a special meeting on Friday. Barlow had been placed on paid ad...
Apr 08, 2024 (Fon Du Lac Park District)
Landmark Recreation Center closed again due to water main issues
PEORIA, Ill. - Landmark Recreation Center is closed again as water main repair work continues. In a social media post...the center says it will be closed Monday)and Tuesday as further inspection and r...
Apr 08, 2024 (Landmark Recreation Center)
Man injured after shooting Saturday evening in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating a shooting from Saturday evening that injured a man. Police say officers responded just after 7:15 P.M. to a local hospital, where a man with gunshot wou...
Apr 08, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Actor Jonathan Majors avoids jail after domestic violence conviction
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jonathan Majors, a fast-rising Hollywood star before domestic violence charges derailed his career, avoided jail and was sentenced to one year of domestic-violence counseling on Mo...
Apr 08, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Actor Jonathan Majors departs with Meagan Good from the second day of deliberations on his assault and harassment case at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, U.S., December 15, 2023. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado/File Photo
Hamas says Gaza truce talks still deadlocked despite reports of progress
CAIRO (Reuters) - A Hamas official said on Monday no progress was made at a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo also attended by Israeli, Qatar and U.S. representatives, after the Egyptian host...
Apr 08, 2024 Israeli tank maneuvers near Israel's border with Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in southern Israel, April 7, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
UPDATE: North America experiences total solar eclipse, starting at Mexican resort
UPDATED 1:43 P.M. MAZATLAN, Mexico (Reuters) -The first total solar eclipse to grace North America in seven years made landfall in Mexico on Monday as millions of skywatchers gazed upward for the star...
Apr 08, 2024 Members of the Debenham family and friends, who travelled from Utah, Las Vegas, and Illinois to experience the total solar eclipse together, try out their eclipse viewing glasses at their campsite a day ahead of the event at Camp Carew in Makanda, Illinois, U.S., April 7, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Vatican says 'no' to sex changes and gender theory in new document
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -The Vatican on Monday reaffirmed its opposition to sex changes, gender theory and surrogate parenthood, as well as abortion and euthanasia, four months after supporting blessin...
Apr 08, 2024 People attend the Regina Caeli prayer led by Pope Francis at the Vatican, April 7, 2024. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS/ File photo
UPDATE: Man in stable condition after Friday afternoon shooting in Peoria
UPDATED 3:52 P.M. Peoria Police are investigating a shooting from Friday afternoon that injured a man. Police say eleven shots were fired in the area of Marquette and Madison Park Terrace at around 2:...
Apr 05, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Businessman behind Trump's NY bond says he charged him a 'low fee'
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Don Hankey, the billionaire businessman whose company Knight Specialty Insurance provided the $175 million bond that Donald Trump posted in his New York civil fraud case, told Reu...
Apr 05, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at one of his properties after attending a hearing in his criminal court case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star in New York City, U.S., March 25, 2024. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
