Category Archives: Top Stories
Downtown Peoria hotel up for auction, hospitality leaders hope for its continued success
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - There's a rich history behind the Mark Twain Hotel and Packard Plaza in Downtown Peoria. One that's lasted nearly 100 years. However, the plans to put the property up for auct...
Sep 08, 2023 (25 News)
A 'public service announcement' from Peoria Police Chief Echevarria a week after two homicides and a mass shooting. WATCH HERE
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria calls it a "public service announcement" after urging violence to stop following a mass shooting and two homicides one week ago. But, a new social me...
Sep 07, 2023 Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria stands in front of a department SWAT Team vehicle for a social media message. (Peoria Police via Facebook)
Tazewell County Clerk wants voters to decide whether the courthouse gets 'Medal of Honor' monument
PEKIN, Ill. - Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman says he's going a different route to try and get a monument built honoring the county's three Medal of Honor recipients. Ackerman says the County Boar...
Sep 07, 2023 Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman distributes petitions to local veterans regarding a proposed monument for the three people who have been awarded the "Medal of Honor" in Tazewell County. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Another wall collapses at Pekin Township Building, power restored
UPDATED 8:55 A.M. 9-8 PEKIN, Ill. - For the second straight day, a wall collapse occurred at the building that houses the Pekin Township Offices. Pekin Interim City Manager John Dossey says the south ...
Sep 07, 2023 (TJ Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Woman sentenced to federal prison for financial and identity theft scheme
PEORIA, Ill. - A woman from Florida has been sentenced to more than 16 years in federal prison thanks to a Peoria federal judge, after she pleaded guilty to a scheme to steal identities. Federal court...
Sep 07, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Charges filed against alleged Peoria County Jail escapee
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - The Peoria County State's Attorney has filed some of the charges a man who escaped Tuesday night from the Peoria County Jail was originally booked on. Jodi Hoos says she filed co...
Sep 07, 2023 Cory Bragg (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Former Trump adviser Navarro convicted of contempt of Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro was found guilty on Thursday of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House of Representatives co...
Sep 07, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Peter Navarro, a White House economic adviser under former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks to reporters outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, U.S., September 5, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson
Man sentenced to federal prison for being a felon having a gun
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is going to federal prison for a few years after pleading guilty to felony gun charges. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Dazmine Erving, 32, was handed a sentence of about f...
Sep 07, 2023 Dazmine Erving (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail September 2022)
'That 70's Show' actor Masterson sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for rapes
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "That '70s Show" actor Danny Masterson was sentenced on Thursday to 30 years to life in prison for raping two women about 20 years ago in a case that stirred controversy around...
Sep 07, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Actor Danny Masterson is arraigned on three rape charges in separate incidents between 2001 and 2003, at Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
GM offers 10% wage hike in contract talks that UAW calls 'insulting'
(Reuters) -General Motors on Thursday made a counterproposal to the union representing its U.S. hourly workers in a bid to avoid a costly strike, but United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called th...
Sep 07, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The new GM logo is seen on the facade of the General Motors headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
