Category Archives: Top Stories
Sandy Hook parents seek to stop InfoWars bankruptcy payments to Alex Jones
(Reuters) - Parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre urged a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday not to allow the parent company of far-right website InfoWars to send any money...
Aug 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Alex Jones speaks with media after day six of trial at the Travis County Courthouse, in Austin, U.S. August 2, 2022. Briana Sanchez/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Police: Shooting on E. Republic in Peoria was accidental, self-inflicted
UPDATED 12:22 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. -- One person was shot in the thigh last (Wednesday) night in Peoria in a shooting that happened near Glen Oak Park. Peoria Police spokesperson Semone Roth says officer...
Aug 04, 2022 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
Peoria man jailed on animal cruelty charges
DUNLAP, Ill. - A Peoria man reportedly turned himself in to Peoria County Sheriffs Department officials after a video allegedly showed him assaulting an animal. Sheriff Chris Watkins says on social me...
Aug 03, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Biden signs abortion order, says Republicans clueless about women's power
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the Supreme Court and Republicans are clueless about the power of American women as he signed a second executive order aimed at protecting ...
Aug 03, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order to help safeguard women's access to abortion and contraception after the Supreme Court last month overturned Roe v Wade decision that legalized abortion, at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Stolen car found in Illinois River
PEKIN, Ill. - After trying and failing to find it on Friday, officials say a car that somehow went into the Illinois River was found Wednesday. Fon Du Lac Park District Police say they used the Peoria...
Aug 03, 2022 (Fon du Lac Park District Police via Facebook)
U.S. congresswoman Walorski dies in Indiana car crash
(Reuters) -U.S. congresswoman Jackie Walorski and two members of her staff were killed in a head-on vehicle collision in Indiana on Wednesday, her office and local police said. Walorski, a Republican ...
Aug 03, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) speaks as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar testifies to the House Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 2, 2020. J. Scott Applewhite/Pool via REUTERS
Back to school for Peoria teachers without a contract
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Public Schools teachers started the school year Wednesday without a contract. Peoria Federation of Teachers' Bargaining Chief Matt McCaw told 25 News, even after an hours-long ne...
Aug 03, 2022 (Peoria Federation of Teachers)
Sollberger named permanent Peoria Fire Chief
PEORIA, Ill. - It's not "interim" Peoria Fire Chief Shawn Sollberger any longer. City Manager Patrick Urich says he's selected Sollberger to permanently replace retired Chief Jim Bachman. Urich says i...
Aug 03, 2022 (City of Peoria)
Teens arrested after guns, stolen car located
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria police say the discovery of a stolen car led to two teenagers being arrested on a number of charges. Police say investigators saw a car known to be stolen pull into a business Tu...
Aug 03, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Peoria Police investigate ATM burglary
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police is looking for someone who broke into an ATM and stole cash. Police say it happened just before 5:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 6000 block of North Knoxville Avenue, near Junctio...
Aug 03, 2022 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
