Category Archives: Local News
Peoria home damaged by fire Saturday morning, cause under investigation
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria home had to be demolished early Saturday morning after a fire on W. Malone. Just before 7 a.m., firefighters found smoke and flames coming from windows on the first and second ...
Dec 16, 2023 D4E / CC
WTVP denied public broadcasting funding pending investigation
PEORIA, Ill. - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is withholding grant money from Peoria public tv station WTVP, pending review of its legal and financial woes. CPB Spokesperson Brendan Daly says...
Dec 16, 2023 (25 News)
Longtime Peoria radio personality set to retire
PEORIA, Ill. - We think we can probably speak for most of our coworkers at Midwest Communications in Peoria when we say we don't want this to happen. But, while he admits it's hard to wrap his head ar...
Dec 15, 2023 Mix 106.9
Peoria man sentenced to 12 years in prison for 2021 fatal crash in Knox County
GALESBURG, Ill. - A Peoria man will be in prison for the next 12 years after being sentenced for a fatal crash that killed a Mackinaw man. 41-year-old Travis Williams was sentenced on Monday after he ...
Dec 15, 2023 Brian Turner / CC
Dunlap man sentenced to federal prison on weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Dunlap man will spend the next two-and-a-half years in federal prison on gun charges. 29-year-old Donald Yarber was given a 30 month sentence on Wednesday, which is to be followed by ...
Dec 15, 2023 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Jury finds Brandon Walker guilty of murder in the death of Navin Jones
UPDATED 3:07 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - "My office, this jury, and our community have cared more for Navin in his death than his parents ever did in his life. Good riddance to them." Those are the words in a...
Dec 15, 2023 Terry Muench, Assistant Peoria County States Attorney, gives the prosecution closing argument Friday in the murder trial of Brandon Walker, seated at right. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
ICC property back on the market, despite plans for hotel development downtown
PEORIA, Ill. - Plans for a hotel project in downtown Peoria are now in question, with one of the properties associated with it back on the market. Keith Weinstein's Greystone Realty Group reached a re...
Dec 15, 2023 (25 News)
Garage damaged after Friday morning fire in Peoria's East Bluff neighborhood
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Fire is investigating the cause of a fire from Friday morning to a garage in the East Bluff. Crews arrived just before 8:00 A.M. to the area of Virginia and Indiana to find heavy...
Dec 15, 2023 D4E / CC
State regulators once again flex muscle in rejecting utilities' grid plans, lessening rate hikes
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Commerce Commission on Thursday curtailed proposed rate hikes and rejected grid plans from two major electric utilities, mirroring a series of bombshell ...
Dec 15, 2023 Illinois Commerce Commission Chair Doug Scott is pictured at a packed meeting in Chicago on Thursday as he reads a decision that will limit spending by two major electric utilities. The agency rejected grid plans from Commonwealth Edison and Ameren Illinois. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
AT&T to buy Rivian electric vehicles in pilot deal to cut cost, emissions
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. wireless carrier AT&T will purchase some electric vehicles from startup Rivian in a pilot program to evaluate ways to reduce cost, cut carbon emissions and improve s...
Dec 15, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A Rivian Automotive Inc facility is pictured in Costa Mesa, California, U.S.,November 1, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
