Category Archives: Local News
A warm farewell: 2019 ends with temps up
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Christmas 2019 in Illinois wasn't quite a holiday in the tropics, but it was definitely on the warmer side of mild. The warmest Dec. 25 ever recorded at 68 different Illinois stat...
Jan 06, 2020 Midwest Communications/Arto Marttinen via unsplash.com
Creve Coeur Police looking for suspect
CREVE COEUR, Ill. -- The Creve Coeur Police Department is seeking the public's help in locating Jackie Wright III. Wright is wanted for multiple felony charges and is considered armed and dangerous. I...
Jan 06, 2020 Creve Coeur Police
Congress demands answers from Trump about Soleimani killing
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two top Senate Democrats are calling on President Donald Trump to immediately declassify the administration's reasoning for the deadly strike on an Iranian official. Senate Minority ...
Jan 06, 2020 Mourners walk back from a funeral ceremony for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in front of the former U.S. Embassy, who was killed with others in Iraq by a Friday U.S. drone attack, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. Funeral ceremonies for Soleimani drew a crowd said by police to be in the millions, on Monday in Tehran, where his replacement vowed to take revenge. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
PPD cruiser involved in weekend crash
PEORIA, Ill. -- Public Information Officer Amy Dotson confirms a Peoria Police officer was involved in a two-vehicle accident Saturday night in downtown Peoria. The crash happened about 11:45 p.m. nea...
Jan 06, 2020
More Illinois seniors qualifying for state benefits
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - More Illinois seniors will qualify for state benefits such as discounted license plates in 2020. The Illinois Department of Aging says it's using new, higher income limits to ...
Jan 06, 2020
Former Washington Girls Basketball coach sentenced
WASHINGTON, Ill. (25 News) -- A former Washington Community High School basketball coach is in jail for sexual misconduct. 23-year-old Hayley Reneau pleaded guilty to to sexual contact with someone be...
Jan 06, 2020 (Tazewell County Jail)
Accident in Pennsylvania kills 5 and injures 60
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Officials in Pennsylvania say five people have been killed and dozens more hospitalized in a crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. A turnpike spokesman tells The Associated Press ...
Jan 05, 2020 Midwest Communications
Thousands mourn Iranian general as region braces for revenge
BAGHDAD (AP) - Thousands of militiamen and other supporters chanting "America is the Great Satan" marched in a funeral procession in Baghdad for Iran's top general, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike....
Jan 04, 2020 AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi
Police identify suspect in Rockford hostage situation
ROCKFORD, Ill. -- Authorities have released the name and charges against the suspect in the hostage situation at Heritage Credit Union in Rockford, Illinois. Police have identified the suspect as Nich...
Jan 04, 2020 Winnebago Co. Jail
Peoria sees a little over an inch of snow overnight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Light snow fell across Central Illinois Friday night, with accumulations in Peoria around 1.1 inches according to the National Weather Service. Sie Maroon, with Peoria Public Works, sa...
Jan 04, 2020 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
