Category Archives: Local News
Referendum signs vandalized and stolen in Metamora. Here's what we know
METAMORA, Ill. - Signs supporting Metamora Grade School's tax referendum proposal were stolen over the weekend, but school board members are still hoping residents will vote in favor of a tax increase...
Feb 13, 2024 (25 News)
UPDATE: Echevarria to Peoria Park District: Cancel Glen Oak Park fireworks in July. Here's why
UPDATED 2:47 P.M. 2/13/24 PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria wants one of two Fourth of July fireworks shows in the city called off this year. Echevarria says after two shootings and a...
Feb 12, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria-area baseball legend among people honored with state's highest honor for civilians
CHICAGO, Ill. - A baseball legend from Peoria is one of the recipients of the highest honors in the state of Illinois. Jim Thome was announced Monday as one of seven 2024 recipients of the Order of Li...
Feb 12, 2024 (File-25 News)
Ex-Madigan aide sentenced to 30 months in prison for obstruction of justice attempt, perjury
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - For most of his adult working life, Tim Mapes only had one boss: former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. And for the more than 25 years he served as Madigan's ...
Feb 12, 2024 Former political insider Tim Mapes and his wife Bronwyn Rains exit the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago on Monday after Mapes was sentenced to 30 months in prison for perjury and attempted obstruction of justice. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Gun rights groups ask SCOTUS to review Illinois' assault weapons ban
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - In a long-expected move, national gun rights organizations are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Illinois' ban on assault weapons and large capacity...
Feb 12, 2024 Pictured is the front page of the National Association for Gun Rights’ petition to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a review of Illinois’ assault weapons ban.
US Senate chair wants airline, credit card CEOs to testify on fees
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday asked the CEOs of American Airlines, United Airlines, Visa and Mastercard to testify at an April 9 hearing on credit card co...
Feb 12, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) speaks to reporters outside a hearing on federal judge nominations on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. October 4, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
East Peoria Fire Department makes several promotions official on Monday
UPDATED 5:21 P.M. EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The East Peoria Fire Department made multiple promotions on Monday, on the heels of a new fire department building opening. Andy Ogburn was promoted from lieutena...
Feb 12, 2024 (25 News)
McCann trial delayed another day as he cancels plan to represent himself
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The federal corruption trial of former Republican state Sen. Sam McCann was delayed again on Monday, but this time for only one day to allow a court-appoint...
Feb 12, 2024 Former state Sen. Sam McCann is pictured in a mugshot after being arrested last week for violating his conditions of pretrial release. McCann checked himself into a Missouri hospital on the eve of his corruption trial and allegedly failed to notify his probation officer of his release. His trial was again delayed until Tuesday, Feb. 13 after he terminated his plan to represent himself and agreed to let his standby attorney take over his defense. (Courthouse photo by Peter Hancock, Capitol News Illinois; booking photo from Macon County Sheriff’s Office)
Jackpot winning Illinois Lottery ticket sold Friday night in Peoria Heights
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - It was someone's lucky day in Peoria Heights on Friday night. That's where an Illinois Lottery Lucky Day Lotto ticket worth $1.45 million was sold at the BP gas station on North...
Feb 12, 2024 (Illinois Lottery)
Peoria car fire causes $30K in damages on Sunday
PEORIA, Ill. - A car fire in Peoria on Sunday caused $30,000 in damages after spreading to a home nearby. Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Ryan Calhoun says crews responded to the fire around 11:40 a.m., f...
Feb 12, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
