Category Archives: Local News
Quest Charter Academy students learn where they will spend the next school year
PEORIA, Ill. - Quest Charter Academy students are getting a preview this week of what the next school year in a new building could look like. Quest is closing at the end of the school year after the P...
Feb 08, 2024 (25 News)
Trump's Illinois ballot challenge to move forward
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A Cook County judge ruled Wednesday that a case seeking to bar former President Donald Trump from the March 19 Republican primary ballot in Illinois will mo...
Feb 08, 2024 A sample ballot from Sangamon County shows the names that will appear before voters in the March 19 Republican primary, pending action by a Cook County Circuit Court.
Threat to Bartonville schools found not credible. Here's what we know
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - Parents of Limestone Community High School and Oak Grove Elementary School students were alerted Wednesday night of an online threat that Bartonville Police have now determined was...
Feb 08, 2024 (File-25 News)
Day in court postponed for former lawmaker who checked into hospital on eve of corruption trial
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - On what was supposed to be the third morning of a weeklong corruption trial of former State Sen. Sam McCann, the onetime third-party candidate for governor ...
Feb 07, 2024 The Paul Findley Federal Courthouse in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
OSF HealthCare close to opening new cancer institute at St. Francis Peoria campus
PEORIA, Ill. - The new OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute will start taking its first patients later this month. The $237 million facility features proton therapy and brachytherapy to treat cancer, along...
Feb 07, 2024 Dr. James McGee, head of Radiation Oncology at OSF Healthcare, stands in front of the new proton therapy machine at the OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: One person injured after Peoria house fire Wednesday afternoon
UPDATED 5:24 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - One person was treated for injuries after a fire in Peoria's North Valley Wednesday afternoon. Peoria Fire crews arrived on scene around 1:30 p.m. at Northeast Perry n...
Feb 07, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATED: Man convicted of 2022 West Peoria double homicide
UPDATED 3:26 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A Mississippi man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted in the shooting deaths of his wife and stepson in September 2022. 35-year-old Rickey ...
Feb 07, 2024 Rickey Payne enters a Peoria County courtroom Wednesday prior to learning he was found guilty of two counts of murder in a September, 2022 double homicide in West Peoria. (TJ Carson, 1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Lawmakers introduce police reform measures, advocates look to end tipped wage
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Families of gun violence victims are asking the state legislature to reform how police handle unsolved murder investigations through legislation introduced this week....
Feb 07, 2024 The Illinois State Capitol is pictured in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
PPD: Arrest made in connection with shots fired near I-74
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have arrested a man for an incident on the Gale Street overpass, off I-74, almost two weeks ago. While responding to an unrelated accident there, officers say they heard s...
Feb 07, 2024 Donte Wright (1470 & 100/3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
No one injured in Bartonville fire Tuesday afternoon
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - Firefighters responded to a house fire on S. Adams in Bartonville Tuesday afternoon. Bartonville Police say the fire broke out just after 4 p.m. Traffic was closed on S. Adams betw...
Feb 07, 2024 (25 News)
