Category Archives: Local News
Limestone High School employee arrested after alleged inappropriate relationship with student
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - A Limestone High School employee has been arrested after an alleged inappropriate relationship between them and a student. Bartonville Police say 37-year-old Ronnie Baskin was arre...
Nov 9, 2024 (File-25 News)
Federal judge strikes down Illinois assault weapons ban, setting up likely appeal
SPRINGFIELD - A federal judge in East St. Louis on Friday struck down Illinois' assault weapons ban on the grounds that it violates the Second and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution and issued a...
Nov 8, 2024 The U.S. District Courthouse is pictured in East St. Louis. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Hundreds of local high school students learn how to "build their future"
EDWARDS Ill. - More than 400 local high school students learned how they could "build their future" Friday in Edwards... It was the third annual Skills USA Construction Pathways Career Experience -- a...
Nov 8, 2024
Investigators say intentionally set fire damages Peoria apartment
PEORIA, Ill. - Investigators say a Peoria apartment fire from Friday morning was reportedly intentionally set. Peoria Fire crews arrived just after 7:15 A.M. in the area of Wardcliffe and Rockwood, di...
Nov 8, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Peoria's Scottish Rite Theater under new management
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria is all "abuzz" with the announcement that the Scottish Rite Theater is reopening. The venue, that's been closed since last April, is under new management. TempleLive Music Group'...
Nov 8, 2024 (TempleLive Music Group)
Jury sees relentless ComEd job placement requests from Madigan co-defendant
CHICAGO - Had they been any other job applicants, electric utility Commonwealth Edison likely wouldn't have given a second look to candidates who made "politically inappropriate" comments during an in...
Nov 8, 2024 Mike McClain, the former top contract lobbyist for electric utility Commonwealth Edison, exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Wednesday, Nov. 6 with his attorney Patrick Cotter. McClain is on trial alongside ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, his longtime friend. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Sentencing for man in connection to 2023 fatal Dunlap shooting delayed
PEORIA, Ill. - Sentencing for a man who pleaded guilty in September to the shooting death of a woman in Dunlap last year has been delayed. Walter Artis was to be sentenced Thursday after his plea in c...
Nov 7, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Peoria County judge's race grows, but still a razor thin margin
PEORIA, Ill. - The lead in the 10th Judicial Circuit judge's race in Peoria County has nearly doubled, but the margins are still razor-thin. After the first batch of mail-in ballots were processed Thu...
Nov 7, 2024
UPDATE: Peoria firefighters battle fire on south side, home a total loss
UPDATED: 6:20 A.M. (11/8) PEORIA, Ill. - A home on Peoria's south side is a total loss after a fire Thursday afternoon. Crews were called to the 1500 block of W. Aiken Avenue around 3:30 p.m., finding...
Nov 7, 2024 (Casey Foreman/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Voter turnout at "historic" levels in Tazewell County, meeting expectations in Peoria County
PEKIN, Ill. - Voter turnout for the general elections in Tazewell County this year were seen at "historic" levels. That's according to County Clerk John Ackerman. Unofficial tallies have 68,594 voters...
Nov 7, 2024
