Category Archives: Top Stories
Pritzker notes growth in Illinois electric vehicle manufacturing
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- State taxpayers are on the hook for $23 million in electric vehicle manufacturing incentives that will help grow the sector in Illinois. On Tuesday, Democratic Governor J.B. Pritz...
Sep 06, 2022 (File-State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service)
Autopsy on Peoria homicide victim confirms death by gunshots
PEORIA, Ill. - An autopsy on Peoria's 17th homicide victim of the year confirms the victim died of multiple gunshot wounds. Coroner Jamie Harwood released that information Tuesday in the case involvin...
Sep 06, 2022 (25 News)
New Mexico county commissioner first to be removed from office over Jan. 6
(Reuters) -A New Mexico county commissioner became the first public official to lose their job for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol when a state judge on Tuesday ruled that ...
Sep 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Couy Griffin founder of "Cowboys for Trump" organization and commissioner of Otero County, New Mexico looks on as he speaks to media after leaving federal court in Washington, U.S., June 17, 2022. REUTERS/Tasos Katopodis
Two face Child Endangerment charges
BELLEVUE, Ill. - Two Peoria-area residents are out of jail after being arrested last week on drug and child endangerment charges. The Peoria County Sheriffs Department says deputies were called Friday...
Sep 06, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Man charged after stabbing, car accident
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man with an arrest history dating back to 1996 will be back in court later this month after being charged in connection to a car accident following a stabbing. Peoria County Sh...
Sep 06, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Pekin Marigold Festival celebrates its 50th year this week
PEKIN, Ill. -- The Marigold Festival is always held the weekend after Labor Day, in the Marigold Capital of the World...Pekin, Illinois. Amy McCoy, with the Pekin Chamber of Commerce, says this is a m...
Sep 06, 2022 (Pekin Chamber of Commerce)
National gas prices decline again, but Peoria gas prices go up
PEORIA, Ill. - The national average price for a gallon of gas has dropped for the 12th straight week -- but, in Peoria, the average has gone up. AAA says the Peoria-Pekin metro area gas price average ...
Sep 06, 2022 Mike Mozart / CC
U.S. says Russia is buying artillery ammunition from N.Korea -report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. intelligence has assessed that Moscow is buying millions of artillery shells and rockets from North Korea, the New York Times reported, on the heels of reports that the Russ...
Sep 06, 2022 Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the Russian Land Forces Oleg Salyukov drive Aurus cabriolets during a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
Veterans take off for D.C. on 25th Honor Flight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria's 25th Honor Flight headed to Washington, D.C. Tuesday morning, filled with veterans that in some cases have waited years to make the trip. 75 veterans and support personnel wil...
Sep 06, 2022 (Peoria Honor Flight Facebook)
Nearly $23M price tag for Bob Michel Bridge updates
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Upgrades to the Bob Michel Bridge, including a new bicycle and pedestrian path, have risen to almost $22.3 million, according to documents from the City of East Peoria. The initia...
Sep 06, 2022 (25 News)
