Category Archives: Local News
Man pleads not guilty to shooting death
PEORIA, Ill. - The man accused of shooting and killing a woman after allegedly breaking in to her Dunlap apartment has been arraigned. Walter Artis, Jr., 26, entered a plea in Peoria County Court Thur...
Apr 27, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
UPDATE: Woman sentenced to prison for 2022 fatal DUI
UPDATED 1:50 P.M. PEKIN, Ill. - The former Bradley University student responsible for the deaths of two pedestrians because she struck them while driving drunk learned her fate today. Stephanie Melgoz...
Apr 27, 2023 Stephanie Melgoza of Farmington was sentenced to 14 years in prison Thursday, April 27, 2023 for the DUI-related deaths of Andrea Rosewicz, 43, and Paul Prowant, 55, on April 10, 2022 on North Main Street in East Peoria. At right is her attorney Kevin Sullivan. (MATT DAYHOFF/POOL)
UPDATE: Jerry Springer, raucous talk show host, dead at 79
UPDATED 11:57 A.M. (Reuters) -Television personality Jerry Springer, known for a long-running talk show that featured raucous audiences, controversial topics and fist-fighting guests and who briefly s...
Apr 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Television personality Jerry Springer at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 25, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo
Tipsword: School resource officers shouldn't have to wear body cams
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A Republican lawmaker who's also the chief deputy of the Woodford County Sheriff's Office does not believe school resource officers should have to wear body cams, and he thinks al...
Apr 27, 2023 (25 News)
Caterpillar's Q1 profit rises on resilient demand, higher prices
(Reuters) -Heavy machinery maker Caterpillar Inc topped Wall Street earnings estimates after reporting a 31% rise in profit on Thursday as a boost in U.S. infrastructure spending kept its order books ...
Apr 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Caterpillar Inc. equipment is on display for sale at a retail site in San Diego, California, U.S., March 3, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Peoria crews respond to apartment fire Wednesday night
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called just before 10 p.m. Wednesday to Lexington Hills Apartments on W. Oakcrest Drive. Battalion Chief Scott Strum said crews found smoke and a small fire in...
Apr 27, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Fire destroys Pekin garage and RV, damages another home and garage
PEKIN, Ill. - A garage at one Pekin home, and a house and garage at another home, were damaged from an afternoon fire Wednesday. Pekin Fire Chief Trent Reeise says the blaze on Sapp Street started aro...
Apr 26, 2023 (25 News)
Comptroller: Record high Rainy Day Fund, record low bill backlog
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - While you can probably speculate on just how the state of Illinois got all this money, the state's Comptroller is using it to do two things the state hasn't really ever done before...
Apr 26, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois Comptroller's Office)
Fatal crash Wednesday morning in Fulton County
FULTON COUNTY, Ill. - One person is dead after a head-on crash Wednesday morning in Fulton County. 25 News reports the two-vehicle crash occurred on County Highway 2 near Ulest Road just before 8:00 A...
Apr 26, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Minnesota-based company to buy R.P. Home & Harvest
MARSHALL, Minn. - A farm-retail store chain with two central Illinois locations will have new owners soon. Minnesota-based Runnings is planning to purchase R.P. Home & Harvest. The purchase is exp...
Apr 26, 2023 ((Runnings Facebook Page))
