Author Archives: TJ Carson
Multiple promotions within Morton Police Department includes new Chief of Police
MORTON, Ill. - Multiple promotions have occurred in the Morton Police Department, one of which is a new police chief. Shawn Darche was sworn in as the new Chief of Police Tuesday. He was appointed to ...
Jan 04, 2024 (Morton Police Department)
Madigan trial delayed until October for SCOTUS review of bribery statute
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan won't be spending his 82nd birthday in a federal courtroom this spring after a judge on Wednesday granted his requ...
Jan 03, 2024 Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago Wednesday afternoon. A judge granted Madigan’s motion to delay his bribery and racketeering trial from April 1 to October 8, after the U.S. Supreme Court’s review of another bribery case. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Governor names new DCFS director
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The troubled state agency charged with the protection of abused and neglected children will have new leadership in the new year. Gov. JB Pritzker announced ...
Jan 03, 2024 Heidi Mueller, who previously served as the state’s director of the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice, was named director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services on Wednesday. (Capitol News Illinois file photo; Mueller image from the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice)
US House Republicans plan impeachment hearing for Biden's border chief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives committee next week will advance an effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over allegations he has been d...
Jan 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas attends a House Homeland Security Committee hearing examining worldwide threats to the U.S., on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Trump takes Colorado ballot disqualification to US Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after Colorado's top court disqualified him from the state's Republican primary ballot for e...
Jan 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., December 7, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar/Pool/File Photo
More people living in Illinois than reported in 2020 Census. Here's what we know
CHICAGO, Ill. - There's more people in the state of Illinois than originally thought. Governor J.B. Pritzker announced Wednesday that a request to include nearly 47,000 people in population estimates ...
Jan 03, 2024 (State of Illinois)
UPDATE: Russia and Ukraine stage big POW exchange after UAE mediation
UPDATED 2:42 P.M. KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine and Russia on Wednesday announced their first exchange of prisoners of war in nearly five months, with more than 200 freed by each side after what both said ...
Jan 03, 2024 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) react after a swap, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at an unknown location in Ukraine, in this handout picture released January 3, 2024. Ukrainian Armed Forces/Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War/Handout via REUTERS
Illinois Attorney General warns about phone scam that uses AI to copy voices
CHICAGO, Ill. - Illinois' Attorney General is warning the public about a new method for phone scams that involves mimicking a loved one's voice with artificial intelligence. In the warning issued Wedn...
Jan 03, 2024 (Office of the Illinois Attorney General)
City of Peoria promotes numerous ways people can submit reports about potholes and more
PEORIA, Ill. - There's multiple ways a person in Peoria can report a pothole to the city. Communications Director Stacy Peterson tells WMBD's "Greg and Dan" people can report a pothole by calling Peor...
Jan 03, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Blasts kill over 100 at ceremony to mark death of Iranian Guards commander Soleimani
DUBAI (Reuters) -Two explosions killed more than 100 people and wounded scores at a ceremony in Iran on Wednesday to commemorate top commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed by a U.S. drone in 2020, ...
Jan 03, 2024 People gather at the scene of explosions during a ceremony held to mark the death of late Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, in Kerman, Iran, January 3, 2024. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
