Category Archives: Top Stories
Gas prices jump another 25+ cents in Peoria area
PEORIA, Ill. - Another significant increase in local gasoline prices in the last week. Both AAA and GasBuddy.com report Peoria-area gas price averages more than 25 cents higher than this time last wee...
Oct 10, 2022 (Illinois Department of Transportation Traffic Camera)
Man faces weapons charge after standoff with police
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is behind hars after barricading himself inside a residence over the weekend. Peoria Police say they were called to a home on Northeast Madison in the North Valley Saturday...
Oct 10, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
OSF HealthCare releases results from Community Health Needs Assessment
PEORIA, Ill. -- OSF HealthCare is sharing results of its 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment for Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford Counties. The assessment is required every three years by the Patient ...
Oct 10, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Appeals court temporarily blocks Arizona's abortion ban
(Reuters) - An appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked Arizona from enforcing a 1901 ban on nearly all abortions in the state, overruling a trial court's decision last month to let the ban proceed...
Oct 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Abortion rights protesters march through downtown Tucson in part with nationwide demonstrations following the leaked Supreme Court opinion suggesting the possibility of overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, in Tucson, Arizona, U.S., May 14, 2022. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble/File Photo
Two shot outside New York Congressman Lee Zeldin's home
(Reuters) - Two people were shot on Sunday outside the home of New York congressman and Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin, who has made addressing crime and violence a key point o...
Oct 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Representative Lee Zeldin (R-NY) speaks during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 10, 2021. Ting Shen/Pool via REUTERS
Russia launches biggest air strikes since start of Ukraine war in revenge for Crimea bridge
KYIV (Reuters) -Russia launched its most widespread air strikes since the start of the Ukraine war on Monday, raining cruise missiles on busy cities during rush hour and knocking out power and heat, i...
Oct 10, 2022 Smoke rises over the city after a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 10, 2022. REUTERS/Oleksandr Klymenko
PPD: Cyclist dead after hit-and-run
PEORIA, Ill. -- Police are confirming a fatal hit-and-run over the weekend near Sheridan and Corrington in Peoria. Officers say they got the call just before 2:15 a.m. Sunday regarding a male lying in...
Oct 10, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Legendary WEEK-TV weatherman Vic Burnett dies at age 91
PEORIA, Ill. -- Many local residents will be saddened to hear a voice from their childhood has passed on. Well known 25 News weatherman Vic Burnett died Friday. An Air Force veteran during the period ...
Oct 09, 2022
Tazewell Co. top cops file lawsuit to stop SAFE-T Act
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. -- Top cops in Tazewell County have filed suit to stop the SAFE-T Act from taking effect next year. 25 News reports that Tazewell County State's Attorney Kevin Johnson and Sherif...
Oct 08, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Explosion destroys part of Crimea bridge crucial to Russian war effort
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry said on Saturday that Russian troops fighting in the Mykolaiv, Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhzhia regions of southern Ukraine could receive all the supplies they ...
Oct 08, 2022 A view shows a fire on the Kerch bridge at sunrise in the Kerch Strait, Crimea, October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer
