Category Archives: Local News

The Peoria Police Department is inviting neighborhoods throughout the city on Tuesday August 6 to join the 36th Annual National Night Out Against Crime (NNO), sponsored by the National Association of ...

(AP) - Illinois officials have fixed the problem with the unemployment benefits program that delayed checks to about 29,000 claimants. The Illinois Departments of Employment Security and Innovation an...

A two vehicle accident in Peoria County claimed one life. The crash occurred around 8:49 a.m. Friday on the Princeville-Jubilee blacktop at Chase Lane just north of Grange Hall Road. The victim, a 70-...

(Reuters) - A Belgian man sat on a toilet for nearly five days this week in a bid to set a world record. Jimmy De Frenne, a 48-year old who is learning to be a bus driver, set himself a challenge of s...

(AP) - President Donald Trump says Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is stepping down following criticism of his handling of a plea deal with a wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of sexu...

(AP) - R&B singer R. Kelly has been charged with racketeering and sex-related crimes against women and girls in sweeping New York federal indictment. The 18-page indictment unsealed Friday accuses...

(AP) - A Wisconsin physics professor contends a former University of Illinois doctoral student convicted in the death of a Chinese scholar was a good student before the crime. Matthew Herndon of Unive...

One person was transported to a local hospital with life threatening injuries after a shooting in Peoria's East Bluff. Peoria police Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said officers responded to a ...

(AP) - President Donald Trump is abandoning his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Instead, Trump says he's ordering every federal department and agency to provide the Commer...

(From 25 News) - Central Illinois will see over $300 million come its way to help "Rebuild Illinois." The massive infrastructure plan of $45 billion was approved by state lawmakers in June. Democratic...