Category Archives: Local News
Crews Battle Fire Overnight In Princeville
A huge fire in Princeville overnight in Princeville. The fire at 132 N. Walnut Street was reported just after 9 p.m. Monday at the Los Jimadores Mexican restaurant building. Firefighters from 13 fire ...
Jun 23, 2019
Trump Threatens To Deport Millions Beginning Next Week
(AP) - President Donald Trump is threatening to remove millions of people in the country illegally. In a late-night tweet Monday, Trump says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin the rem...
Jun 23, 2019
Peoria Crews Called To Fire On W. Aiken
Peoria firefighters responded to a house fire late Monday night. Crews arrived on the scene around 10:45 p.m. in the 1300 block of W. Aiken Avenue, finding heavy smoke coming from the structure. The h...
Jun 23, 2019
Gloria Vanderbilt, Heiress, Jeans Queen, Dies At 95
AP) - Gloria Vanderbilt, the "poor little rich girl" heiress at the center of a scandalous custody battle of the 1930s and the designer jeans queen of the 1970s and '80s, died on Monday at 95, accordi...
Jun 17, 2019 Gloria Vanderbilt participates in the panel for "Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper" at the HBO 2016 Winter TCA on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Applications Accepted To Fill Peoria County Vacancies
Peoria County is beginning the process to appoint individuals to fill their vacancies. The vacancies were created by the recent deaths of District 11 County Board member Greg Adamson, State's Attorney...
Jun 17, 2019
Bradley University Earns Top Ranking For Jobs
Career website Zippia.com has ranked colleges nationwide that have the best record when it comes to finding employment a decade after graduation. The report identifies schools with the highest placeme...
Jun 17, 2019
NWS: Saturday Night Tornado Confirmed Near South Pekin
Saturday night storms in central Illinois included a tornado in Tazewell County. The National Weather Service confirms an EF-1 tornado near South Pekin resulted in tree and structural damage. T...
Jun 17, 2019
