Author Archives: TJ Carson
Peoria area sees up to five inches of snow after first wave of winter storm Tuesday with more snow coming
LINCOLN, Ill. - The Peoria area has so far seen 3-5" of snow in the first winter storm of the season. That's what the National Weather Service office in Lincoln is estimating for the storm that began ...
Jan 09, 2024 Snow on trees and power lines near Junction City off Prospect Road after a winter storm on January 9th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US Defense Secretary Austin hospitalized for infection after prostate cancer surgery
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was hospitalized on Jan. 1 with a urinary tract infection following a December surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer, Walter Reed Nat...
Jan 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attends a welcome ceremony before an annual security meeting with South Korean Defence Minister Shin Won-sik at the Defence Ministry in Seoul, South Korea on November 13, 2023. JUNG YEON-JE/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
US top diplomat urges Israel to avoid harming civilians in Gaza
GAZA/TEL AVIV/CAIRO (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged Israeli leaders to avoid harming civilians as it presses its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and told them c...
Jan 09, 2024 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Israel's President Isaac Herzog, during his week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East, at David Kempinski Hotel, in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 9, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool
Peoria High School promotes from within for new football coach
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria High School football team did not have to look far to find its new head coach. Aaron Montgomery was appointed on Monday to lead the Lions. Montgomery is a 2004 graduate of Pe...
Jan 09, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria County snow plows continue clearing roads during fresh snowfall Tuesday
PEORIA, Ill. - The work continues into Tuesday for Peoria County snow plow crews as the first winter storm of the season impacts central Illinois. County Engineer Amy McLaren says crews were out Monda...
Jan 09, 2024 A Peoria County Highway Department snow plow works to clear roads in the Dunlap area during a winter storm on January 9th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria metro area expected to receive six inches of snow through Wednesday morning. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - The first winter storm of the season will come to central Illinois Monday night, and it may not be the only system this week. 25 News First Alert Meteorologist Chuck Collins tells WMBD'...
Jan 08, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Biden denounces 'poison' of white supremacy in South Carolina Black church
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday denounced white supremacy and political violence in a direct message to Black voters during a visit to South Carolina aimed at ...
Jan 08, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden gestures as he delivers a speech during a campaign event at the Mother Emanuel AME Church, the site of the 2015 mass shooting, in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., January 8, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Biden will not fire Pentagon chief Austin, Trump calls for removal
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden does not plan to fire Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after his failure to disclose his hospitalization last week, officials said on Monday, as ...
Jan 08, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin looks on during a joint press conference with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at Israel's Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, Israel December 18, 2023. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura/File Photo
Trump says he will attend federal appeals court arguments on presidential immunity
(Reuters) -Donald Trump said he will be attending an appeals court hearing regarding the scope of his presidential immunity in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, in comments in a Truth Social post on Monday....
Jan 08, 2024 Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event, in Clinton, Iowa, U.S., January 6, 2024. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
Peoria man sentenced for possessing weapon as a felon
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man will spend nearly five years in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon. Jamarcus Hollingsworth, 30, received a sentence of 57 months in prison on Friday, followed by th...
Jan 06, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
