Category Archives: Local News
Mega Millions nears billion dollar jackpot after no winners Friday night
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - One of Illinois' multi-state lotteries is inching closer to a billion dollar payday. No one won Friday night's $815 million Mega Millions jackpot. The amount rolls over to an estim...
Mar 16, 2024 (Multi-State Lottery Association/Mega Millions)
Peoria Heights to receive federal grant for new water line
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Officials in Peoria Heights are celebrating 17th District Congressman Eric Sorensen's announcement earlier this week of nearly $1 million in federal funding coming to them to bu...
Mar 15, 2024 (Village of Peoria Heights)
Match Day pairs medicine students in Peoria with residency programs for next few years
PEORIA, Ill. - Students at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria learned on Friday where the next big step in their journeys to be doctors would take them. As part of a Match Day cerem...
Mar 15, 2024 University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria students wait in line to receive envelopes with information on their residency programs at a Match Day ceremony in Peoria, on March 15th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Vandalism, alleged hate crime reported on Bradley University campus
UPDATED 4:46 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A hate crime and vandalism have been alleged to have occurred on the campus of Bradley University. According to a campus safety alert Friday morning, the university sa...
Mar 15, 2024 A surveillance photo of a potential suspect in a reported hate crime on the Bradley University campus. (Bradley University via 25 News)
Two people die in Thursday evening single vehicle crash in Woodford County
GERMANTOWN HILLS, Ill. - Two people died after a single-vehicle crash near Germantown Hills in Woodford County Thursday evening. Woodford County Coroner Tim Ruestman says the crash occurred just befor...
Mar 15, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Owners of Par-A-Dice in East Peoria discuss renovation plans with state gaming board
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The Par-A-Dice Casino in East Peoria will continue to operate, but could also soon receive a facelift. At Thursday's Illinois Gaming Board meeting, the board approved a four-year r...
Mar 15, 2024 (25 News)
Peoria residents escape duplex fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a duplex on W. Sheridan Court early Friday morning, finding a garage on fire. Acting Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Tyson Pokarney says residents were al...
Mar 15, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Shed destroyed by rural Tazewell County fire
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - A machine shed was destroyed by fire Thursday afternoon near Morton. Morton Fire officials say the blaze was first reported around 3:15 p.m. to a home on Allentown Road, with t...
Mar 14, 2024 Firefighters put out a shed fire in rural Tazewell County March 14. (TJ Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Two more teens charged in fatal Facebook Marketplace armed robbery
UPDATED 4:44 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. - There are now a total of five people arrested in connection with an armed robbery turned deadly involving a fake car posted to Facebook Marketplace. The Peoria County ...
Mar 14, 2024 Jonathan Williams (left) and Tanarius Kingcade (right) (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
House panel opens hearings on Pritzker's health insurance reforms
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A panel of Illinois lawmakers began hearing testimony Wednesday on Gov. JB Pritzker's proposals for sweeping changes in the state's health insurance industr...
Mar 14, 2024 The House Human Services Committee hears testimony Wednesday about Gov. JB Pritzker’s proposal to limit the ability of insurance companies to deny claims or steer patients toward cheaper, and possibly less effective, treatments. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
