Author Archives: TJ Carson
One killed in petroleum plant explosion in Chicago area
LEMONT, Ill. - An explosion at a petroleum plant Tuesday morning in the Chicago area has left at least one person dead. Another person was taken to a hospital in Joliet after the explosion at Seneca P...
Apr 25, 2023 D4E / CC
UPDATE: Academy Sports + Outdoors coming to Peoria
UPDATED 4:23 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A new sporting goods store will be expanding north into Peoria this summer. Academy Sports + Outdoors will occupy the former Gordman's location at Grand Prairie Plaza....
Apr 25, 2023 ((Academy Sports + Outdoors))
Biden will veto US House Speaker McCarthy's debt bill if it passed Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If U.S. President Joe Biden were to be presented with Republican House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy's spending and debt bill, he would veto it, the White House said...
Apr 25, 2023 FILE PHOTO: President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington, as Vice President Kamala Harris applauds. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Peoria Public School Board delays approving new food service contract
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Public School Board may try before they buy. The board Monday night tabled a motion to approve a new one-year, food service contract with OrganicLife for more than $3.8 milli...
Apr 25, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Harry Belafonte, who mixed music, acting, and activism, dies at 96
(Reuters) -Harry Belafonte, a singer, songwriter and groundbreaking actor who started his entertainment career belting "Day O" in his 1950s hit song "Banana Boat" before turning to political activism,...
Apr 25, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Harry Belafonte (C) laughs with a fellow audience member as they depart after a reception for the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors recipients at the White House in Washington, December 8, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
East Peoria man arrested on weapons charges early Sunday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - An East Peoria man was arrested early Sunday morning on weapons charges. Peoria Police says they were informed of an armed subject in the parking lot of a business at Jefferson and Harr...
Apr 24, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Blinken: US looking at how to help Americans in Sudan, resume diplomatic presence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is looking at how to help U.S. citizens wishing to leave Sudan amid the ongoing violence, while exploring ways to resume a diplomatic presence in the country, U...
Apr 24, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a press conference at Karuizawa Prince Hotel West in Karuizawa, Nagano prefecture, Japan, 18 April 2023. ZHANG Xiaoyu/Pool via REUTERS
Arrests made in theft of IDOT-owned backhoe in Marshall County
MARSHALL COUNTY, Ill. - Two people from Kewanee have been arrested in connection with the theft of a backhoe owned by the state. The Marshall Count Sheriff's Department says 26-year-old Jace Alledredg...
Apr 24, 2023 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Fox News and Tucker Carlson part ways after Fox settles Dominion lawsuit
UPDATED 11:23 A.M. (Reuters) -Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways, the media company said in a statement on Monday, less than a week after Fox News and parent company Fox Corp s...
Apr 24, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Fox personality Tucker Carlson speaks at the 2017 Business Insider Ignition: Future of Media conference in New York, U.S., November 30, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
US says Proud Boys were 'thirsting for violence' as Jan. 6 trial wraps up
(Reuters) - A U.S. prosecutor on Monday said leaders of the Proud Boys were "thirsting for violence and organizing for action" ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, as the criminal tri...
Apr 24, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A mob of supporters of then-U.S. President Donald Trump climb through a window they broke as they storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis
