Author Archives: TJ Carson
UPDATE: Suspect in active shooter situation in Pittsburgh is dead
UPDATED 6:38 P.M. PITTSBURGH - An hours-long active shooter situation Wednesday in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood is over. The standoff ended when authorities shot and killed William Hardison...
Aug 23, 2023 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Giuliani surrenders in Trump election subversion case, $150,000 bond set
UPDATED 2:10 P.M. ATLANTA (Reuters) -Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani on Wednesday surrendered at a jail in Georgia's Fulton County to face state charges arising from actions he ...
Aug 23, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for former President Donald Trump during challenges to the 2020 election results, exits U.S. District Court after attending a hearing in a defamation suit related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election results, that has been brought against Giuliani by two Georgia election workers, at the federal courthouse in Washington, U.S., May 19, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Accidental shooting Saturday evening claims life of Marquette Heights teenager
MARQUETTE HEIGHTS, Ill. - A Marquette Heights teenager died after an accidental shooting Saturday evening. The Peoria County Coroner says Marquette Heights Police and EMS responded at around 9:24 P.M....
Aug 23, 2023 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
UPDATE: Teenager killed in East Bluff shooting identified
UPDATE 8/23 10:20 A.M. - The Peoria County coroner says a 17-year-old boy who was shot Tuesday night in Peoria's East Bluff has died. Jamie Harwood says the teenager was taken to OSF Saint Francis Med...
Aug 22, 2023 Peoria Police confirm a shooting occurred Tuesday, August 22, near Wisconsin and Kansas. (25 News)
UPDATE: Construction crane total loss after Tuesday afternoon fire near McClugage Bridge
UPDATED 7:45 P.M. EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A crane being used in the construction of the new McClugage Bridge is a total loss after a fire Tuesday afternoon. East Peoria Fire Chief Bobby Zimmerman says cre...
Aug 22, 2023 (Peoria Fire Department via 25 News)
Lawsuit says Gannett discriminates against white workers to meet diversity goals
(Reuters) -Gannett Co Inc, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, is facing a lawsuit claiming its efforts to diversify newsrooms led to discrimination against white workers. The proposed class action ...
Aug 22, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The corporate headquarter buildings of Gannett Co and its flagship newspaper, USA Today, are seen in McLean, Virginia, July 23, 2013. A decline in newspaper advertising dragged down Gannett Co's second-quarter results, underscoring the company's need for new revenue streams. REUTERS/Larry Downing/File Photo
FTX's Bankman-Fried 'subsisting on bread and water' in jail, lawyer says
NEW YORK (Reuters) -FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried is "subsisting on bread and water" because the federal jail where he is being held ahead of his fraud trial has not provided h...
Aug 22, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, arrives at court as lawyers push to persuade the judge overseeing his fraud case not to jail him ahead of trial, at a courthouse in New York, U.S., August 11, 2023. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
State urges people to take precautions this week during heat wave
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Public Health is warning residents to be careful during hot temperatures this week. An Excessive Heat Warning is in effect for central Illinois until Thu...
Aug 22, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
New Biden student loan plan cuts payments for millions, White House says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Tuesday said it was overhauling student loan repayment plans, seeking to make payments more affordable by reducing the amount owed each month and cur...
Aug 22, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (not pictured) during the trilateral summit at Camp David near Thurmont, Maryland, U.S., August 18, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
US existing home sales drop, but prices up from a year earlier
(Reuters) - U.S. existing home sales dropped to a six month-low in July as home owners who are locked into cheap mortgages refrained from selling their properties with the cost of new mortgages for an...
Aug 22, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A "sold" sign is seen outside of a recently purchased home in Washington, U.S., July 7, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/File Photo
