Category Archives: Local News
Local theater icon Mary Simon passes away
GOODFIELD, Ill. - After more than four decades of performing local theater, Goodfield resident Mary Simon has passed away. Simon, who operated the Barn III Dinner Theatre in Goodfield, formerly known ...
Aug 3, 2023 (Kibler Brady Ruestman Memorial Home)
Residents escape fire in Peoria, home demolished
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria crews were called to the area of W. Gift and N. Isabell for a residential fire Wednesday morning. Fire officials said fire broke out around 10 a.m., with flames showing from the ...
Aug 2, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
A local movie theater is closed, and there's plenty of speculation as to why
PEORIA, Ill. - Other movie theaters are apparently still able to show movies, but one local theater may be blaming a closure on the ongoing writers' strike. Sources are telling 25 News that the closur...
Aug 2, 2023 (25 News)
A Peoria man is jailed after a Wednesday morning stabbing
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is jailed after an early morning stabbing in South Peoria. Peoria Police say Efral Keys, Jr., 55, was taken to the Peoria County Jail on two counts of Aggravated Battery. P...
Aug 2, 2023 Efral Keys, Jr. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Another former Northwestern University football player comes forward to accuse the program of hazing
CHICAGO - A former Northwestern University football player is speaking out as a legal complaint is filed on his behalf Wednesday, accusing the team and former coach Patrick Fitzgerald of hazing. Ramon...
Aug 2, 2023 Former Northwestern University football player Ramon Diaz speaks Wednesday at a news conference in Chicago. (WFLD-TV)
Peoria Heights contract with Peoria Fire Department up in the air after Tuesday board meeting
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - After more than an hour of passionate public comment before the Peoria Heights Board of Trustees, a key vote taken Tuesday afternoon could put the deal between the City of Peo...
Aug 2, 2023 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Coroner: Cause of death so far 'inconclusive' for homeless man found behind Campustown restaurant
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Coroner says the death of a man whose body was found behind a restaurant in Campustown remains inconclusive. Coroner Jamie Harwood says that's so far the finding in th...
Aug 1, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Man arrested in connection with Princeville animal cruelty case. Here's what we know
PRINCEVILLE, Ill. (25 News) - A man wanted in connection with an animal cruelty case in Princeville back in May has been arrested. Police arrested 41-year-old Stephen Kalb on Friday at the East Peoria...
Aug 1, 2023 Stephen Kalb (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Illinois to invest more than $23 million in abortion access, reproductive health care initiatives
(Capitol News Illinois) - As another of Illinois' border states is set to enact a near-total abortion ban this week, Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday announced several new programs to help address the influ...
Aug 1, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker takes questions on Monday after a news conference at which his administration announced a new interagency effort to ensure access to abortion care in Illinois. (Credit: Illinois.gov)
Two arrested after another dog was found on a boat where seven were found abandoned in July
PEORIA, Ill. - We're learning more about the people who may have left seven abandoned dogs on a boat along the Illinois River in July. Fon du Lac Park Police say officers were called to the same boat ...
Aug 1, 2023 Robert Recaldini, Jr., and Amanda O'Neill (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
