Category Archives: Local News
Pekin City Council discusses police and fire budgets
PEKIN, Ill. - Not long Monday after the City of Pekin honored first responders who helped save the life of a drowning four-year-old boy, one city council member looked at things differently. "It's kin...
Mar 22, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Bradley Women's Basketball coach retiring
PEORIA, Ill. - A Bradley University alum who came back to the school to coach the women's basketball team is calling it a career. Coach Andrea Gorski announced her retirement Tuesday after 25 years of...
Mar 22, 2022 (Bradley University)
Peoria Symphony Orchestra hires new leader
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Symphony Orchestra has hired a new Executive Director, Anthony Marotta, who will officially begin leading the orchestra on Tuesday, April 26. Marotta has worked for the Boul...
Mar 22, 2022 Peoria Symphony Orchestra/Ernest Rawlins Photography
Lawsuit: Reditus CEO "looted" company for personal gain
PEKIN, Ill. -- Indicted on six-year-old federal tax fraud charges last week, the CEO of Reditus Labs is being accused of far more. An ongoing Tazewell County civil lawsuit filed in 2021 accuses Aaron ...
Mar 22, 2022 (Reditus Labs)
Pekin honors local heroes
PEKIN, Ill. - any people feel they're heroes anyway; but Monday, some of the men and women on the Pekin Police and fire forces got officially recognized for it. The officers received either department...
Mar 21, 2022 (25 News)
Victims in fatal UTV crash identified
TREMONT, Ill. - Two sisters from Minnesota have been identified as the two who died when the utility terrain vehicle they were in collided with a pickup truck late Saturday afternoon near Tremont. Cha...
Mar 21, 2022 25 News
Morton Schools dispute newspaper report of Title IX settlement
MORTON, Ill. - The Morton School District is taking issue with a Peoria Journal Star article saying that a settlement has been reached between the feds and the district over a Title IX complaint. The ...
Mar 21, 2022 Morton School District
Greta Van Fleet show at Peoria Civic Center postponed
PEORIA, Ill. - A popular rock group that was going to be at the Peoria Civic Center in a few days is postponing its tour after one of the band members has fallen ill. Greta Van Fleet is cancelling a s...
Mar 21, 2022 Nicolas Padovani / CC
Peoria-Pekin gas prices dip slightly -AAA
AURORA, Ill. - AAA says the average price of a gallon of gas in Peoria is getting a little better, but not much, despite the ongoing war in Ukraine. The Peoria-Pekin current average gas price is at ju...
Mar 21, 2022 AAA
Gov Pritzker says BA-2 sub variant impact remains muted for now in Illinois
Governor J.B. Pritzker says state officials have been keeping an eye on the emerging new COVID-19 sub variant that's surging in other parts of the world. It's led to China's first recorded COVID-19 de...
Mar 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Governor of Illinois Jay Robert Pritzker speaks during a science initiative event at the University of Chicago, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. July 23, 2020. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski
