Category Archives: Local News

Man who died in wrong way crash on I-74 near Morton is identified
TAZEWELL COUNTY Ill. - The man killed in the Wednesday night crash along I-74 in Tazewell County -- has been identified. Tazewell County Coroner, Charles Hanley, says preliminary findings of an autops...
Casey Foreman Oct 18, 2024

OSF Life Flight marks 40 years of service
PEORIA Ill. - OSF Healthcare celebrated 40-years of "Life Flight" services Friday. Life Flight provides critical air-medical transport service throughout Illinois -- and OSF now has helicopters based ...
Casey Foreman Oct 18, 2024 (OSF Life Flight team with The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, courtesy of OSF Healthcare)

Riggenbach announces reelection bid for fifth term on Peoria City Council
PEORIA Ill. - Third District Councilman, Tim Riggenbach, announces a bid for reelection. Riggenbach is seeking a fifth term, and shares with 25News, his top priorities include strengthening public saf...
Casey Foreman Oct 18, 2024 Courtesy of the City of Peoria

Two men arrested for Thursday night shooting in Peoria
PEORIA Ill. - Two men have been arrested in connection to a shooting Thursday night. Peoria Police were dispatched to the 600 block of Northeast Prosperity Street, just before 8pm, on a report of two ...
Casey Foreman Oct 18, 2024 29-year-old Donquarius Brisbon and 43-year-old Elon Coleman.
(Peoria Co. Sheriff's Office)

4 decades after rising to power and nearly 4 years since his fall, former Speaker Madigan goes to trial
CHICAGO - On a late October day in Springfield nearly five years ago, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan exited a private caucus meeting and strode up to a group of waiting reporters in one o...
Casey Foreman Oct 18, 2024 MADIGAN GAGGLE (INSET PHOTO): In a rare media availability with reporters in October 2019, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan denies being a target of a growing federal investigation into corruption. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)

Risk of field fires increases this harvest with windy and dry conditions
CENTRAL ILLINOIS - Farmers are being encouraged to take steps to avoid field fires during dry and breezy weather conditions. There is an elevated fire risk for Central Illinois due to an abnormally dr...
Julia Bradley Oct 18, 2024 Chalabala / Depositphotos.com

East Peoria hosts comprehensive plan open house
EAST PEORIA Ill. - East Peoria officials met with the public Thursday afternoon, to plan for the future. It was city's second "Comprehensive Plan Open House" of the year, focusing on what residents an...
Casey Foreman Oct 17, 2024 (Casey Foreman & 1470 100.3 WMBD Radio)

Peoria County Election Commission urges people to not delay getting vote-by-mail ballots
PEORIA, Ill. - The head of the Peoria County Election Commission says those who are choosing to vote-by-mail should make plans sooner rather than later to do so. Executive Director Elizabeth Gannon sa...
TJ Carson Oct 17, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)

2 teens arrested after shots fired in Peoria
PEORIA Ill. - Two teenagers have been arrested after one was allegedly seen firing shots, from a vehicle, in Peoria Wednesday night. Peoria Police said the driver of a vehicle, a 15-year-old boy, was ...
Casey Foreman Oct 17, 2024

Man found guilty for shooting at Peoria gas station in December 2022
PEORIA, Ill. - A man has been found guilty for his role in a shooting at a Peoria gas station nearly two years ago. A Peoria County jury on Thursday found 26-year-old Patrick Meyer guilty of Aggravate...
TJ Carson Oct 17, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)


