Category Archives: Top Stories
State's Attorney: Teen, now 17, faces felonies for fatal February Bartonville crash
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says it's filing charges against the now-17-year-old driver who allegedly crashed a car in late-February, killing another teen. State's Attor...
May 11, 2022 (25 News)
Firefighters respond to blaze on River Beach Drive in Chillicothe
UPDATED 2:58 P.M. CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - Firefighters Wednesday battled a blaze at a home in Chillicothe, just off Illinois Route 29. Crews were called to the area of the 15400 block of River Beach Drive...
May 11, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria elected leaders vote to allocate $6.6M to short-term road improvements
PEORIA, Ill. -- One of the bumpier, cracked roadways in Peoria -- among others -- is now set for some much needed repair as a result of action at Tuesday night's Peoria City Council meeting. Council m...
May 11, 2022 Midwest Communications
Pritzker speaks on on reproductive rights ahead of Senate vote
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. J-B Pritzker is calling on federal lawmakers to protect women's right to choose. The U.S. Senate is voting on Wednesday on codifying the landmark Roe v. Wade co...
May 11, 2022 (State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service)
Peoria poised to set records for high heat and warm lows Wednesday
PEORIA, Ill. -- It could be a record setting day for heat in the Peoria area today and we've already been in record-setting territory this week, according to the National Weather Service. NWS Forecast...
May 11, 2022
Abortion bill fails in U.S. Senate as Supreme Court weighs overturning Roe v. Wade
UPDATED 6:11 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Legislation to make abortion legal throughout the United States was defeated in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, amid solid Republican opposition. Democrats had so...
May 11, 2022 U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) participates in a march of Democratic women members of the U.S. House of Representatives gathering outside of the U.S. Senate chamber to protest and advocate for abortion rights as U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) works his way through the crowd behind her to the chamber for the vote on a bill attempting to codify the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision at the Capitol in Washington, U.S. May 11, 2022. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson
U.S. consumer prices slow in April; inflation still high
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer price growth slowed sharply in April as gasoline prices eased off record highs, suggesting that inflation has probably peaked, though it is likely to stay hot for ...
May 11, 2022 People carrying shopping bags walk inside the King of Prussia shopping mall, as shoppers show up early for the Black Friday sales, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, U.S. November 26, 2021. REUTERS/Rachel Wisniewski
Trump-backed candidates lose in Nebraska, win in West Virginia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump's favored candidate fell short in Nebraska's Republican primary election for governor on Tuesday, but the former president's pick prevailed in a congressional primar...
May 11, 2022 A view shows the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 27, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Biden visits Illinois farm to highlight Russia-driven food inflation
UPDATED 6:04 p.m. CHICAGO (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday blamed Russia's war on Ukraine for the latest spike in global food prices and visited a family farm in Illinois where he pled...
May 11, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden visits a family farm in Kankakee, Illinois, U.S., May 11, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Update: Driver cited in I-74 crash that injured deputy near Morton
Update: 9:19 a.m. (5/11) -- The Peoria County Sheriff's Office has released a statement about the crash that happened late Tuesday afternoon on Interstate 74 near Morton. The department said Tuesday n...
May 10, 2022 (25 News)
