Category Archives: Local News

Peoria's 13 homicide victim of the year is identified. Robert Purdle, 30, was pronounced dead at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center after being shot in the 2200 block of West Wiswall, according to the P...

The public can help out the Peoria Police Department by registering security cameras. With the City of Peoria Electronic Camera Registry, citizens and businesses can register their cameras online, so ...

With a fireworks show as big as UnityPoint Health Red, White and Boom, brought home by Adam Merrick Real Estate, it's all in the details. Midwest 360 Peoria Market Manager Mike Wild says Thursday's fi...

(AP) - Actor Arte Johnson, who won an Emmy for comedy sketch work on the television show "Laugh-In," has died in Los Angeles. He was 90. Family representative Harlan Boll says Johnson died early Wedne...

(AP) - A judge has denied a request to delay sentencing for a former University of Illinois student convicted in the kidnapping and murder of a visiting Chinese scholar. The Champaign News-Gazette rep...

A Pekin man has died following a two-vehicle accident near South Pekin. The victim is identified as Chad Williams, 42. Williams was found entrapped in the passenger seat of his vehicle following the a...

(AP) - Former colleagues say ex-Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca has died at age 94 in Bel Air, California. Iacocca was a master pitchman. He put the Mustang in Ford's lineup in the 1960s. Two decades later, ...

(Springfield)--Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday, more than 117 million visitors traveled to our state in 2018, setting a new record. According to the U.S. Travel Association, visitors spent $41.7 billi...

(25 News)--Peoria's Taft Homes will be getting a makeover, a makeover that could cost 17-20 million dollars. Housing Director Jackie L Newman says the cost will be covered through funding from state a...

The Fourth of July is a time for fun and fireworks, but police want to remind everyone to be safe. Sgt. Tony Halsey with Illinois State Police said tens of thousands of people will be along the riverf...