Category Archives: Local News
UPDATE: Man found dead in Peoria alley now investigated as homicide
UPDATED 3:47 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County's coroner says the death of a West Peoria man, found in the East Bluff neighborhood early Monday morning, is now being investigated as a homicide. Jamie ...
May 09, 2022 Midwest Communications
I-DOT debuts new highway map
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The newest Illinois highway map is available now. While most of us use our smartphones for directions, paper maps can still be a good resource on the road, according to State Depa...
May 09, 2022 (Illinois Dept. of Transportation)
ISU Board approves tuition hike
NORMAL, Ill. - It's graduation weekend at Illinois State University, but it will cost you more to graduate from there in four years. The ISU Board of Trustees voted Friday to increase tuition by aroun...
May 07, 2022 (Illinois State University)
Celebrating the Peoria Rivermen
PEORIA, Ill. - It might have rained on the Peoria Rivermen's parade, but that didn't stop the team and fans from celebrating the team's Southern Professional Hockey League President's Cup championship...
May 07, 2022 Courtesy 93.3 The Drive
Final goodbye for fallen Knox County Sheriffs Deputy
GALESBURG, Ill. - People are gathering Saturday to pay their final respects to a Knox County Sheriffs Deputy killed in the line of duty a week ago Friday. Funeral services for Nicholas Weist, 34, will...
May 07, 2022 (via Facebook)
Pekin apartments damaged by fire, one injured
PEKIN, Ill. - One person was taken to the hospital after fire broke out Friday afternoon at a Pekin apartment complex. Pekin Fire Chief Trent Reeise says crews were called to the scene on Valle Vista ...
May 06, 2022 (25 News)
Survivors take part in "More Than Pink Walk"
PEORIA, Ill. - Hundreds of cancer survivors are expected to take part in Peoria's "More Than Pink Walk" Saturday morning. One of them is Wanda Schoch of East Peoria. She was diagnosed with a rare form...
May 06, 2022 (Susan G. Komen)
Man who escaped from van in Woodford County still wanted
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. - There may not be an active search, but police are hopeful someone might have seen a man who escaped from a transport van in Woodford County late Wednesday. Javier Aguirre, 47, ...
May 06, 2022 (Illinois State Police)
Pritzker responds to audit on deadly LaSalle Veterans' Home COVID outbreak in 2020
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- In response to a less than flattering audit report about a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at a Northern Illinois long term care facility, drawing memories of a similar deadly nursing ho...
May 06, 2022 (State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service)
Luft reacts to LaSalle Veterans Home COVID-19 outbreak
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Republicans in the Illinois Legislature are wasting no time throwing the blame at Democratic Governor JB Pritzker for the handling of COVID-19 outbreak at a veterans home during th...
May 06, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
