Category Archives: Local News
Environmentally-friendly manufacturer plans $85 million expansion
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria-based manufacturer says it's secured $85 million to do some expanding. Natural Fiber Welding was founded in 2015 and continues to grow, and the money they raised is to, accordi...
Apr 12, 2022 (Natural Fiber Welding)
Residents displaced by apartment fire in Morton
MORTON, Ill. -- An apartment unit was heavily damaged, and an entire building suffered heavy smoke damage in an early morning fire in Morton. The Morton Police Department told 25 News, the call came i...
Apr 12, 2022 (25 News)
Man arrested for string of Fulton County residential burglaries
LEWISTOWN, Ill. - Authorities in Fulton County say they've arrested a man responsible for three recent burglaries in the area. The Fulton County Sheriffs Department says Christopher Davis, 43, of Cant...
Apr 11, 2022 (Fulton County Sheriffs Department via 25 News)
Update: Counselors at Richwoods High after student's death in Bloomington
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - A teenager from Peoria was killed over the weekend in Bloomington after being shot. McLean County Coroner Kathy Yoder identifies the victim as 17-year-old Kanye Stowers, a student ...
Apr 11, 2022 25 News
Man dead following kayaking accident near Havana
HAVANA, Ill. - One person is dead after high winds caused a kayak to overturn in Mason County not far from Havana. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says a 27-year-old male kayaker from Cha...
Apr 11, 2022 Alan Levine / CC
Child charged with murder, arson won't be in court during trial: Judge
EUREKA, Ill. - The then-nine-year-old boy arrested in 2019 for allegedly setting a fire that killed five people at a trailer park in Goodfield will not have to be in the courtroom when his trial begin...
Apr 11, 2022 25 News 2019 File Photo
Illinois passes statewide ban on "Ghost Guns", NRA in opposition
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- While President Biden plans new executive action aimed at cracking down on so-called "ghost guns" in the U.S., the state of Illinois has already passed it's own ban on those firea...
Apr 11, 2022 Midwest Communications
Latex gloves, days off from school, military sexual assault victims all subjects of late legislative session approvals
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A state budget that left Republicans fuming isn't the only thing Illinois lawmakers got passed in the waning hours of the shortened legislative session. Some of the legislation dea...
Apr 11, 2022 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Pedestrians killed in East Peoria crash
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Two people have died after being hit by a vehicle Sunday night in East Peoria. The East Peoria Police Department said officers were called to the area of N. Main Street and Centen...
Apr 11, 2022 Midwest Communications
Crews staving off larger pavement collapse on Mossville Road
PEORIA, Ill. -- Pavement collapses that have closed a portion of Mossville Road on The Hill in north Peoria are being blamed on wet weather, but they also occurred near a water main. Twice in the past...
Apr 10, 2022 Midwest Communications
