Category Archives: Local News
Social media video shows Bartonville firefighter using N-word
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - The Bartonville Fire Department is under fire again -- this time, after a years-old video resurfaced on social media allegedly showing the assistant chief using a racial slur. A pa...
Aug 10, 2022 (25 News via TikTok)
PPD: Officer uninjured, driver hospitalized after crash with patrol car
PEORIA, Ill. -- We're learning more about a traffic crash that involved a Peoria Police officer. PPD says it happened just after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of West McClure Avenue and Nor...
Aug 10, 2022 Midwest Communications
City Council approves violence prevention grant program
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City Council is okaying providing violence prevention grants to community organizations -- this, after rejecting the funding that would have gone to one Illinois-based group ...
Aug 10, 2022 Scott McLeod / CC
LaHood speaks on Inflation Reduction Act and FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago
PEORIA, Ill. -- With a vote expected by the end of the week on the Inflation Reduction Act, Illinois Congressman Darin LaHood (R-18), will be back in Washington, D.C. soon. While home in the 18th Dist...
Aug 10, 2022 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Council unanimously supports RISE program, violence reduction grant framework
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria's new RISE program, designed to assist local business owners hard hit by the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, will receive a fresh injection of cash following a report...
Aug 10, 2022 (File-1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy)
PPD investigating Peoria's latest homicide
UPDATED 3:23 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating the city's 15th homicide of 2022. Just after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Peoria Police responded to a Shot Spotter alert of 4 rounds fired on W...
Aug 10, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Illinois begins offering permanent mail-in ballots
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- As of Wednesday, August 10, Illinois residents can get signed up for permanent mail-in voting. New this time around, when you apply for a mail-in ballot for the November election,...
Aug 10, 2022 Alan Cleaver / CC
Ledgestone Open brings thousands to Central Illinois this week
PEORIA, Ill. -- It's a big week for disc golf enthusiasts. Area courses hosted the Jr. and Masters World Championships just a few weeks ago. The Ledgestone Open, which begins Thursday, is now bringing...
Aug 10, 2022 VSPYCC / CC
Man accused of sexually abusing girl at campground released from jail
EUREKA, Ill. - A Woodford County man who was a resident of the campground he worked at when he allegedly sexually abused a young girl is now out of custody. Woodford County Circuit Court records indic...
Aug 9, 2022 (Woodford County Sheriffs Department via 25 News)
Peoria School Resource Officers to work with Peoria Police
PEORIA, Ill. - You may soon see some of the school resource officers in Peoria District 150 responding to incidents happening outside school grounds. That's part of a new memorandum of understanding b...
Aug 9, 2022 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
