Category Archives: Local News
Riverfront fracas results in 13 people shot
PEORIA, Ill. - 13 people were shot early Sunday morning at Peoria's Riverfront. Peoria Police responded at 4:41 a.m. to Water and Hamilton on reports of a large fight. Upon arrival, officers discovere...
Jul 19, 2020 MWC-Peoria Police Media Release
Drive-in movie time in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Park District has variety of events and facilities throughout Peoria. Many of those events are reopening after being shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic. One of those events ...
Jul 18, 2020 Peoria Park District
Vehicle crashed into a house after a shooting in Central Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police responded to a Shot-Spotter alert around 4:20 a.m. Saturday in the 2100 block of N Hampton Court. The shooting incident on Hampton lead officers to a vehicle that crashed...
Jul 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
Shooting in south Peoria leaves one dead
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police responded to the area of the 2500 block of W Seibold around 1:40 a.m. Saturday regarding a Shot-Spotter alert. Officers located two adult male victims in front of the res...
Jul 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria homicide suspect arrested
PEORIA, Ill. -- A suspect has been arrested in connection with Peoria's sixth homicide of the year. On the night of June 29th, Peoria Police were called to a shooting the 300 block of N. Saratoga and ...
Jul 17, 2020 MWC
ComEd to pay $200M over bribery, Illinois speaker implicated
CHICAGO (AP) - Electric utility ComEd has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve a federal criminal investigation into a long-running bribery scheme that implicates Illinois House Speaker Michael Madig...
Jul 17, 2020 FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2016 file photo, Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, speaks to reporters in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman File)
Justice Ginsburg says cancer has returned, but won't retire
WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but has no plans to retire from the Supreme Court. The 87-year-old Ginsburg, who spe...
Jul 17, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Notre Dame player tests positive for COVID-19
PEORIA, Ill. -- Another local high school football player has tested positive for COVID-19. Peoria Notre Dame Head Football Coach Pat Armstrong sent an email to parents Thursday night informing them t...
Jul 17, 2020 (25 News)
Two shot overnight in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called at approximately 4:09 a.m. Friday to the 2300 block of N. Knoxville Avenue on a ShotSpotter alert of nine rounds fired. Public Information Officer Amy Dotson ...
Jul 17, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Pritzker lawsuit seeks face mask order for IL schools
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois governor took the unusual step Thursday of preemptively filing a lawsuit to ensure school children wear face coverings to prevent the spread of the coronavirus wh...
Jul 17, 2020 Amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, sixth-grader Salih Tas wears a mask as he works on building a robot during a STEM summer camp at Wylie High School Tuesday, July 14, 2020, in Wylie, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
