Category Archives: Local News
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)
Bid to impeach Biden border official fails in US House
UPDATED 5:49 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives delivered a blow to Republican Speaker Mike Johnson when it voted on Tuesday against impeaching Democratic President Joe Biden...
Feb 06, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas takes his seat to testify before a Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on the department's budget request on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 26, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Ballot question asks Metamora Grade School District voters to raise property tax levy
METAMORA, Ill. - The Metamora Grade School District says it's in desperate need of a property tax hike, so it's going to voters to decide the issue. On the March primary election ballot will be a requ...
Feb 06, 2024 (Metamora Grade School District)
Former GOP lawmaker's trial again delayed amid last-minute hospitalization
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Instead of laying out his defense in his long-awaited federal corruption trial on Monday morning, former State Sen. Sam McCann was hospitalized in Missouri ...
Feb 06, 2024 Former Republican state Sen. Sam McCann speaks to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Springfield on Monday, Nov. 27. Though his rescheduled corruption trial was set to begin Monday, McCann was instead hospitalized and unable to make it to court. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Hannah Meisel)
State Supreme Court denies state lawmaker's bid to vacate gun ban ruling
(Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Supreme Court has again denied a request from a Republican lawmaker seeking to repeal the state's assault weapons ban. Gov. JB Pritzker signed the ban on the sal...
Feb 06, 2024 State Rep. Dan Caulkins is pictured at an Illinois State Capitol news conference last year. He was again rejected by the Illinois Supreme Court this week in a case against the state’s assault weapons ban. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Rossi pleads guilty in federal court to tax fraud, mail fraud
PEORIA, Ill. - Aaron Rossi pleads guilty. Federal court records indicate Rossi pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to one count of mail fraud and one count of tax fraud. He had faced a total of ten felony ...
Feb 06, 2024 (25 News)
With demand for services increasing, Peoria Salvation Army reaches Tree of Lights campaign goal
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Salvation Army has completed a successful 2023 "Tree of Lights" campaign. The organization announced that its fundraising campaign exceeded its $2.2 million target by raising...
Feb 05, 2024 (Salvation Army)
UPDATE: Peoria Police release more details of thwarted school shooting plot. Here's what we know
UPDATED 2/6 10:39 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have released more details regarding the case of the 16-year-old male who was charged Monday in relation to a school shooting attempt that was thwar...
Feb 05, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Six people suffer minor injuries after crash involving school bus in Peoria
UPDATED 2/6 7:59 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Six people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries after a multi-vehicle crash Monday involving a school bus. The crash occurred in the area of Allen and To...
Feb 05, 2024 (25 News)
