Category Archives: Local News
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Oct 17, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria pastor, Richard Hammonds, celebrated with street dedication
PEORIA Ill. - A staple in the Peoria community was honored Thursday morning. Pastor Richard Hammonds, who founded the Gospel Experience Church and has been serving the Peoria area for more than 45-yea...
Oct 17, 2024 (Casey Foreman & 1470 100.3 WMBD Radio)
UPDATE: Head-on collision on I-74 near Morton leaves one dead
UPDATED: 6:50 A.M. MORTON, Ill. - A head-on collision involving a pickup and a semi on Eastbound I-74 near Morton leaves one person dead. Illinois State Police say the crash happened around 9:50 p.m. ...
Oct 17, 2024 (25 News)
