Category Archives: Local News
Illinoisans warned about flood car scams
CHICAGO, Ill. -- A short supply mixed with flood damage from Hurricane Ian is causing concern about used vehicle scams, and not just in Florida. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is warning reside...
Oct 05, 2022 Midwest Communications/University of Illinois Extension
Victim in Peoria officer-involved shooting identified; police chief issues statement
UPDATED 10:15 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - We now know the name of the victim in Monday night's officer-involved shooting in South Peoria. And, we have heard for the first time from Peoria's Police Chief on th...
Oct 04, 2022 (25 News)
State task force on crime meets for first time, co-chaired by local lawmaker
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - It was only the first meeting, so there's nothing new happening yet, but State Representative Jehan Gordon-Booth hopes the new Illinois Crime Reduction Task Force will work to try ...
Oct 04, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Cars appear to crash head-on, injuring two in Peoria
UPDATE 7:14 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. -- Two people are hurt following a vehicle crash that occurred late Wednesday at a busy Peoria intersection. Images from IDOT traffic cameras near the scene appeared to s...
Oct 04, 2022 (Illinois Department of Transportation traffic camera)
Man, facing trial on Domestic Battery charge, now arrested again for Aggravated Domestic Battery
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man who's been arrested a number of times for domestic battery has been arrested again, this time after a woman is believed to have suffered serious injuries. Peoria Police say...
Oct 04, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria county Jail)
New Peoria Housing Authority head on the job for several months
PEORIA, Ill. - She's been in town for awhile, coming here from Detroit, but the new CEO of the Peoria Housing Authority is now getting out in the public. Armeca Crawford started in April, taking over ...
Oct 04, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Illinois school graduation shooter gets maximum sentence
DIXON, Ill. -- A man will receive the maximum prison sentence allowable after pleading guilty to shooting at an Illinois high school graduation practice several years ago. It happened in 2018 at Dixon...
Oct 04, 2022 (Photo from KWQC-TV pool video via 25 News)
White Bison at Wildlife Prairie Park dies
PEORIA, Ill. -- Tatanka, a rare white bison at Wildlife Prairie Park, has died. Park CEO Roberta English says staff noticed the bison didn't come up for his regular feeding on Saturday, September 24th...
Oct 04, 2022 (25 News)
17th District debate fills the house at Bradley
PEORIA, Ill. -- It was a full room at Bradley University's Alumni Center on Monday night for a debate between Illinois' 17th congressional district hopefuls. Republican candidate Esther Joy King has a...
Oct 04, 2022 (25 News)
One person dead in officer-involved shooting in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police responded to a ShotSpotter alert around 10:12 p.m. Monday near Martin Luther King Park on the city's south side. Upon arrival, officers were involved in a shooting with o...
Oct 04, 2022 Midwest Communications
