Category Archives: Local News
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)
Drought levels in central Illinois are decreasing. Here's the latest numbers
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Drought is decreasing in central Illinois after relief from recent rains and cooler temperatures in the past week. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report released Thursday shows all ...
Aug 10, 2023 (National Weather Service)
Fair starts Thursday with the theme, 'Harvest the fun'
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - With the 2023 Illinois State Fair about to get underway, Gov. JB Pritzker and Department of Agriculture Director Jerry Costello II officially unveiled this ...
Aug 9, 2023 The Illinois State Fair butter cow is pictured on Wednesday after it was unveiled by Gov. JB Pritzker on the state fairgrounds in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Wrongful death lawsuit filed in connection with February, 2022 fatal crash
PEORIA, Ill. - The family of a teenager killed during an accident in Bartonville last year is now suing the driver, and a liquor store accused of illegally selling alcohol indirectly to the driver. 25...
Aug 9, 2023 Clayton Bell (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
UPDATE: Peoria Police respond to a end-of-school day fight at Manual High School
UPDATED 4:57 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - We are getting some answers about what happened toward the end of the day Wednesday at Manual High School to cause Peoria Police to have to respond to a large fight th...
Aug 9, 2023 (File-25 News)
