Category Archives: Local News
Severe storms leave thousands without power in Central Illinois
Updated 9:51 a.m. Power is gradually being restored to Ameren Illinois customers following severe storms Friday morning. The Ameren Outage Map as of 9:50 a.m. showed nearly 2,800 customers in Peoria C...
Aug 11, 2023 (Ameren Illinois)
UPDATE: Victim identified, suspect named, in fatal Peoria stabbing
UPDATED 3:58 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The victim of the city of Peoria's 12th homicide of the year has been identified, and a suspect has been named. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says an autopsy on ...
Aug 11, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/Peoria Police Department)
OSHA: A Peoria dentist fired a longtime employee over her COVID-19 concerns
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria dentist is getting fined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for firing someone who ended up being a federal whistleblower. OSHA says a federal judge in Peoria...
Aug 10, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
37 workers at state-run developmental center targeted in PPP fraud probe
(Capitol News Illinois) - At Ludeman Developmental Center in Park Forest, 37 employees have been fired, resigned or face pending disciplinary action after a state watchdog found that they defrauded a ...
Aug 10, 2023 (File/Capitol News Illinois)
A reward is being offered for information regarding a homicide in Fulton County
FULTON COUNTY, Ill. - A reward is now being offered in connection with a homicide in Fulton County that occurred over the weekend. Fulton County Crime Stoppers is now offering $2,500 for any informati...
Aug 10, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Man hospitalized after accidentally shooting himself
PEORIA, Ill. - A man has life-threatening injuries after what Peoria Police say was an accidental shooting. Peoria Police say officers and first responders went to an area near Ligonier and Marquette ...
Aug 10, 2023 Midwest Communications
Peoria Police are looking for ten people involved in recent various retail thefts, and they'll keep calling suspects out
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say they're looking for ten people who have allegedly committed retail thefts in the recent past, and they're going to keep talking about such cases until they're all solv...
Aug 10, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Two injured in two-vehicle crash in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Two people have been injured after a late-morning two-vehicle crash in Peoria. Peoria Police say it happened near Gale and Forest Hill prior to 11 a.m. Thursday in the vicinity of a gas...
Aug 10, 2023 (25 News)
160 years later, activist Elizabeth Packard honored in place of abusive psychiatrist she exposed
(Capitol News Illinois) - In June 1860, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was committed to the Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in Jacksonville by her husband, a Calvinist minister, for, in pa...
Aug 10, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at a news conference in Springfield on Wednesday before signing an order to rename McFarland Mental Health Center after Elizabeth Packard, a woman who was committed into an Illinois asylum against her will in 1860.
'Protect the boss' or faulty memory: ex-Madigan aide's grand jury testimony scrutinized
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Taking occasional notes - a habit hard-wired after more than 25 years as Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's chief of staff - Tim Mapes sat and listened to openi...
Aug 10, 2023 Tim Mapes, the former chief of staff for longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Monday. He is standing trial for perjury and obstruction of justice. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
