Category Archives: Local News
Wardle, Snell reflect on Dick Versace
PEORIA, Ill. - One of the first people Bradly University men's basketball coach Brian Wardle heard from when he got the job in 2015, was legendary Braves coach Dick Versace. "He loved his years in Peo...
Feb 27, 2022 Bradley University
Update: Victim of Bartonville crash identified
UPDATE 4:20 a.m. (2/28) -- The Peoria County Coroner has identified a 15-year-old girl killed in car crash early Sunday morning as Mia Dusek of Bartonville. Just after midnight, Sheriff's deputies and...
Feb 27, 2022 Midwest Communications
Face masks go from 'universal' to 'recommended' in Peoria Public Schools
PEORIA, Ill. - It might be the sort of reprieve parents in Peoria Public Schools wanted after recently threatening their own lawsuit over the district's universal mask mandate. District 150 Superinten...
Feb 27, 2022 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
Legendary former Bradley men's BBall coach Versace, dead at 81
PEORIA, Ill. -- It's sad news for longtime Bradley Braves men's basketball fans in Peoria. The University has confirmed the death of legendary former head coach Dick Versace. The news began spreading ...
Feb 26, 2022 Bradley University
Injured East Peoria officer back home after rehab stint
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - An East Peoria police officer injured while at the scene of an accident on Interstate 74 in late-December is back home. 25 News reports East Peoria officers were there to greet Off...
Feb 25, 2022 Illinois State Police
Illinois Senate passes "Jelani Day Bill"
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Senate has passed a bill that might put some pressure on county coroners when it comes to missing persons cases. The Senate Thursday passed on a 43-4 vote a bill requi...
Feb 25, 2022 25 News
Pekin man gets 25 years in prison on federal meth charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Pekin man is going to federal prison for 25 years after being convicted of federal methamphetamine-related charges. The U.S. Attorney's Office says a judge Tuesday sentenced Thomas Wr...
Feb 25, 2022 (2019 Peoria County Jail photo)
Bradley University changes mask policy as of Monday
PEORIA, Ill. - When Illinois' indoor mask mandate except for schools is lifted as of Monday, Bradley University's mask requirements will change as well. Bradley says in a news release masks will still...
Feb 25, 2022 Bradley University
Durbin reacts to Biden's Supreme Court pick
CHICAGO, Ill. - The name of D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is not unfamiliar to the Senate, or to its Judiciary Committee. That committee's chair is Illinois Senator Dick Du...
Feb 25, 2022 JoshBerglund19 / CC
Illinois sharing in massive multi-state opioid settlement
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- It's a drug settlement worth $26 billion. Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Friday that final approval of the national opioid settlement with drug companies like Johnson & Joh...
Feb 25, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
