Category Archives: Local News
Victim identified in fatal Thursday accident
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Coroner is releasing the name of the victim in Thursday morning's deadly car accident near downtown Peoria. Coroner Jamie Harwood says preliminary autopsy results on J...
May 20, 2022 Midwest Communications
IDPH: Peoria, Tazewell Counties at 'high community spread' for COVID-19
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Peoria and Tazewell Counties are now among eight in Illinois which are now listed as in the "high community spread" category of COVID-19. That's as the Illinois Department of Publi...
May 20, 2022 Illinois Department of Public Health via 25 News
Attorney General charges woman with lying on FOID card application
PEORIA, Ill. - The Illinois Attorney General's Office has indicted a Peoria-area woman after allegedly lying on an application for a Firearm Owners I.D. card. The A.G.'s office says Ronda Frye, 51, of...
May 20, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Chiefs vs. River Bandits in a battle for blood
PEORIA, Ill. - Starting now and running for the next few months, it will be "Blood Donation Night" at the old ballpark. ImpactLife has put together a competition called "Out for Blood" between the Peo...
May 20, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Shooting in Chicago's downtown leaves at least two dead, ten injured
(Reuters) - Chicago police arrested a suspect in a fatal shooting that escalated from a fight outside a fast food restaurant and spilled on to a nearby train line, authorities and local media said on ...
May 20, 2022 Police stand at a shooting scene after gunfire erupted on Thursday night outside a McDonald's near the city's Magnificent Mile shopping section, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. May 20, 2022 in this picture obtained from social media. Twitter/@DamianChlanda/via REUTERS
Crews making progress towards demolition at BioUrja plant
UPDATED 5:23 p.m. Peoria Interim Fire Chief Shawn Sollberger now says demolition is slated to begin Sunday, with the combination of foam and nitrogen being entered into the smoldering grain bins worki...
May 20, 2022 Peoria Fire Department via Facebook
Chicago police shoot unarmed 13-year-old boy, suspect in carjacking
(Reuters) - The civilian oversight agency of the Chicago police is investigating an officer's shooting of an unarmed 13-year-old boy who was suspected of having taken part in a carjacking. The boy is ...
May 20, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Mobile homes, RV's destroyed by East Peoria fire
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Several RV's and mobile homes in East Peoria were damaged as the result of a fire that quickly spread. East Peoria Fire Chief Bobby Zimmerman tells 25 News someone doing mechanical...
May 19, 2022 (25 News)
Census Bureau: Illinois population actually increased in 2020
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Census Bureau says all those people who think people are leaving the State of Illinois in droves, might be wrong. The Census Bureau Thursday released what they call "overcount"...
May 19, 2022 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey from U.S. Census Bureau
Health Department on baby formula shortage: Don't panic, don't stockpile
PEORIA, Ill. - Local officials have a message to parents in the wake of the continued shortage of baby formula in the country: don't panic, and don't do anything rash. OSF Healthcare Pediatrician Doct...
May 19, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
