Category Archives: Local News
Peoria poised to set records for high heat and warm lows Wednesday
PEORIA, Ill. -- It could be a record setting day for heat in the Peoria area today and we've already been in record-setting territory this week, according to the National Weather Service. NWS Forecast...
May 11, 2022
Biden visits Illinois farm to highlight Russia-driven food inflation
UPDATED 6:04 p.m. CHICAGO (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday blamed Russia's war on Ukraine for the latest spike in global food prices and visited a family farm in Illinois where he pled...
May 11, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden visits a family farm in Kankakee, Illinois, U.S., May 11, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Update: Driver cited in I-74 crash that injured deputy near Morton
Update: 9:19 a.m. (5/11) -- The Peoria County Sheriff's Office has released a statement about the crash that happened late Tuesday afternoon on Interstate 74 near Morton. The department said Tuesday n...
May 10, 2022 (25 News)
Woodford County: Sheriffs Department phone scam returns
EUREKA, Ill. - It's a seemingly pervasive scam, that's apparently rearing its ugly head in the area again. The Woodford County Sheriffs Department says residents have recently been reporting receiving...
May 10, 2022 MWC-Scam Graphic credit: University of Illinois Extension.
Pritzker signs Gordon-Booth-crafted police-related legislation in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A local lawmaker says she is grateful Governor JB Pritzker came to Peoria to sign her legislation that will help both mental health, and police response to calls related to mental healt...
May 10, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Investigators: Navin Jones' half brother did not die of SIDS in 2007
PEORIA, Ill. -- We're learning much more today about an old infant death case that is linked to the mother who now stands accused of killing her 8-year-old son here in Peoria. This is in relation to S...
May 10, 2022 25 News
Illinois Supreme Court Justice to retire
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A long-serving justice on the Illinois State Supreme Court and described as a "trailblazer" is retiring. The court says Justice Rita Garman will retire July 7th. She's been on the ...
May 10, 2022 (Illinois Supreme Court)
Residential fire displaces four in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called just before 7 a.m. Tuesday to a fire on S. Blaine Street, near W. Starr. Upon arrival, crews found heavy smoke coming from the story and a half home as ...
May 10, 2022 Midwest Communications
Update: Missing Peoria man found
UPDATE: 10:15 a.m. According to an updated release from Peoria Police, 20-year-old Andrew Bigham has been located and is doing well. ---------------------------------- PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Polic...
May 10, 2022 (Peoria Police Dept.)
Man charged with sheriffs deputy murder makes court date
CAMBRIDGE, Ill. - The man accused of striking and killing a Knox County Sheriffs Deputy with his car while fleeing police in Galesburg will be back in court in two weeks. Court records in Henry County...
May 9, 2022 (Illinois State Police)
