Author Archives: TJ Carson
Stretch of Veteran's Drive in Pekin named in honor of community leader
PEKIN, Ill. - A stretch of Veteran's Drive in Pekin has been named in honor of a community leader. Signs indicating the Carol A. Shields Memorial Highway on Veteran's Drive are located at Griffin Aven...
Sep 30, 2023 (Pekin Area Chamber of Commerce)
Site of former Hale Church could soon be owned by the city of Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - The corner lot where the historic Hale Church once stood could soon be in the possession of the city of Peoria. 25 News reports the city is in the process of finalizing the ti...
Sep 30, 2023 (25 News)
All-day event Saturday in downtown Peoria aims to raise funds to help restore the Madison Theater
PEORIA, Ill. - An all-day party in downtown Peoria aims to help with the efforts to restore a century-old building in the area. The "Blockbuster Bash for the Madison" takes place Saturday, from 10:30 ...
Sep 30, 2023
Trump, DeSantis court Republican activists in California
ANAHEIM, California (Reuters) -Donald Trump campaigned in California on Friday, just two days after skipping the Republican presidential debate there, looking to build support in the state with the bi...
Sep 30, 2023 A supporter of former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump prays at the site of the fall convention of the California Republican Party in Anaheim, California, U.S., September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake
US Congress tees up votes in last-minute scramble to avert shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers return to the U.S. Congress on Saturday with no clear path to resolving a squabble that appears likely to close wide swaths of the federal government, from national pa...
Sep 30, 2023 U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks with reporters after a House Republican conference meeting following a series of failed votes on spending packages at the U.S. Capitol ahead of a looming government shutdown in Washington, U.S. September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
8th grade students across central Illinois try numerous jobs at the Greater Peoria Career Spark
PEORIA, Ill. - Most 8th graders are uncertain of what their futures would look like. But an event at the Peoria Civic Center aims to help give them options for what their career could be. The 7th Grea...
Sep 29, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Drought levels decreasing in central Illinois after rains in the past week
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Rainfall in the past week helped reduce drought conditions in central Illinois. The latest U.S Drought Monitor report released Thursday shows that all of Tazewell and Woodford Counti...
Sep 28, 2023 (National Weather Service)
UPDATE: Fire destroys home in Peoria's Averyville neighborhood. Here's what we know
UPDATED 3:39 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A home in Peoria's Averyville neighborhood is being torn down Thursday after fire ravaged it. Peoria firefighters were called to the home near Madison and Camblin 10:5...
Sep 28, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Shutdown looms as US Senate, House advance separate spending plans
UPDATED: 10:45 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. Senate forged ahead on Thursday with a bipartisan stopgap funding bill aimed at averting a fourth partial government shutdown in a de...
Sep 28, 2023 U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks with reporters as the deadline to avert a partial government shutdown approaches on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2023. REUTERS/Craig Hudson
Michael Gambon, British actor who played Dumbledore, dies aged 82
LONDON (Reuters) -British-Irish actor Michael Gambon, best known to global audiences for playing the wise professor Albus Dumbledore in the "Harry Potter" movie franchise and whose career was launched...
Sep 28, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Actor Michael Gambon attends a Service of Thanksgiving for Sir Peter Hall at Westminster Abbey in London, Britain, September 11, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File photo
