Category Archives: Top Stories
Unemployment continues declines in Illinois, and in Peoria area, though not as many jobs created here
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Peoria area hasn't created as many jobs in the year-over-year period ending last month as some other areas, but the unemployment rate in the area is still lower. The Illinois D...
Aug 25, 2022 Midwest Communications
Man accused of attacking woman with sledgehammer
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man who is listed as being homeless is charged with assaulting a woman and her car with a sledgehammer. Court documents indicate a grand jury has charged Pierre Comer, 42, with...
Aug 25, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
U.S. judge tells Justice Dept. to release redacted Trump search affidavit
UPDATED 3:12 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge in Florida on Thursday ordered the U.S. Justice Department to publicly release a redacted version of its affidavit that underpinned the FBI's Au...
Aug 25, 2022 FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home after Trump said that FBI agents searched it, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. August 15, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello
Umholtz to become judge prior to November election
PEKIN, Ill. - Tazewell County State's Attorney Stewart Umholtz will become a judge a lot sooner than he anticipated. Tenth Circuit Chief Judge Katherine Gorman says the Illinois Supreme Court has appo...
Aug 25, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
ISAC: Nearly 1 in 3 Illinois borrowers could have student loans completely erased
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- If all direct federal student loan borrowers in Illinois fell under the Biden Administration's income standards for debt forgiveness, nearly a third of them would have their stude...
Aug 25, 2022 Midwest Communications
SUV crash sends one to hospital
PEORIA, Ill. - An investigation continues into an accident Thursday morning that left the driver trapped for a time. Peoria Fire says the crash reported at 7:03 A.M. near War Memorial and Sheridan Roa...
Aug 25, 2022 (From Illinois Department of Transportation traffic camera)
Illinois Secretary of State tests positive for COVID-19
CHICAGO, Ill. - Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has tested positive for COVID-19. Officials for White's office say the positive test happened Wednesday, despite White being double vaccinated a...
Aug 25, 2022 (Illinois Secretary of State)
Washington Chief warns residents about "storm scammers"
WASHINGTON, Ill. -- Storm damage brings scammers out in droves. Washington Police Chief Mike McCoy says his department has fielded a number of calls this week about people going door-to-door, offering...
Aug 25, 2022 Midwest Communications/University of Illinois Extension
Russia confirms Independence Day strike, Kyiv says it killed 25 civilians
KYIV (Reuters) - Russia's Defense Ministry said on Thursday its forces had struck a railway station in eastern Ukraine, confirming an attack which Kyiv says also hit a residential area and killed 25 c...
Aug 25, 2022 People stand next to a residential house destroyed by a Russian military strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Chaplyne, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine August 24, 2022. REUTERS/Dmytro Smolienko
S. Pekin business goes up in flames
SOUTH PEKIN, Ill. -- Part of Rt. 29 was shut down early Thursday morning due to a fire in South Pekin. Officials told 25 News Moore's Motorworx caught fire, and was engulfed in flames by the time crew...
Aug 25, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
