Category Archives: Top Stories
Man hospitalized after Creve Couer fire
CREVE COEUR, Ill. -- A 60-year-old man suffered smoke inhalation late Wednesday afternoon when a fire severely damaged his home in Creve Couer. The owner tells 25 News her husband heard a smoke alarm,...
Dec 08, 2022 liz west / CC
With Senate majority, Democrats will still have to work with Republicans
ATLANTA (Reuters) -Democrat Raphael Warnock won re-election to the U.S. Senate in a hard-fought Georgia runoff on Tuesday, strengthening his party's razor-thin majority as he fought off a challenge by...
Dec 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) attends a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2022. REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert
IHSA to move state football finals to ISU's Hancock Stadium
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - If Peoria High School were to make back to back appearances in the state high school football tournament next year, they won't have to travel as far to play. The Illinois High Scho...
Dec 07, 2022 (Illinois High School Association)
Teen faces gun, stolen vehicle-related charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A 15-year-old female is in trouble with the law for allegedly stealing a car among other things. Peoria Police investigators say they found the girl around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday near Kansas...
Dec 07, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Adult, juveniles arrested after SUV accident and weapons discovery
PEORIA, Ill. - Three juveniles and one adult are arrested after what was as a car accident became the discovery of guns. It started around 11:30 Tuesday night, when Peoria Police say they saw an SUV h...
Dec 07, 2022 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump asks U.S. appeals court to block civil Jan. 6 lawsuits
(Reuters) - Donald Trump should be immune from civil lawsuits over last year's siege on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters, a lawyer for the former president told a federal appeals court on Wednesday....
Dec 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump announces that he will once again run for U.S. president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election during an event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Man gets court supervision for DUI, 'Scott's Law' violation
PEKIN, Ill. - A man charged with getting into an accident with an East Peoria squad car which was at the scene of a separate fatal accident has reportedly taken a plea deal in the case. and was senten...
Dec 07, 2022 (East Peoria Fire Department via Facebook)
Grand jury charges man with April shooting
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria teenager arrested last month for a shooting in April that critically injured a woman is now being indicted by a grand jury. A grand jury Tuesday filed two counts of Aggravated ...
Dec 07, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Pritzker speaks on proposed assault weapons ban, SAFE-T Act changes
CHICAGO, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker is making his first public remarks on one measure just signed in to law by him, and on one just introduced. On Tuesday, Pritzker signed into law changes in the "ca...
Dec 07, 2022 (State of Illinois)
Crews fight Peoria attic fire
PEORIA, Ill. - Some damage was done to a Peoria home close to straddling the West Bluff and South Peoria areas. That's according to Peoria Firefighters, who say they were able to get a blaze under con...
Dec 07, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470- & 100.3 WMBD)
