Category Archives: Top Stories
Woodford County: Sheriffs Department phone scam returns
EUREKA, Ill. - It's a seemingly pervasive scam, that's apparently rearing its ugly head in the area again. The Woodford County Sheriffs Department says residents have recently been reporting receiving...
May 10, 2022 MWC-Scam Graphic credit: University of Illinois Extension.
Pritzker signs Gordon-Booth-crafted police-related legislation in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A local lawmaker says she is grateful Governor JB Pritzker came to Peoria to sign her legislation that will help both mental health, and police response to calls related to mental healt...
May 10, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Investigators: Navin Jones' half brother did not die of SIDS in 2007
PEORIA, Ill. -- We're learning much more today about an old infant death case that is linked to the mother who now stands accused of killing her 8-year-old son here in Peoria. This is in relation to S...
May 10, 2022 25 News
Illinois Supreme Court Justice to retire
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A long-serving justice on the Illinois State Supreme Court and described as a "trailblazer" is retiring. The court says Justice Rita Garman will retire July 7th. She's been on the ...
May 10, 2022 (Illinois Supreme Court)
Residential fire displaces four in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called just before 7 a.m. Tuesday to a fire on S. Blaine Street, near W. Starr. Upon arrival, crews found heavy smoke coming from the story and a half home as ...
May 10, 2022 Midwest Communications
Biden says Fed targeting inflation, China tariffs could fall
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, under pressure to tame high inflation, told Americans on Tuesday that he understands what they are grappling with and that he and the U.S. Federal Reser...
May 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks on expanding high-speed internet access, during a Rose Garden event at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Ukraine death toll 'thousands higher' than reported - U.N. rights official
GENEVA (Reuters) -Thousands more civilians have been killed in Ukraine during nearly 11 weeks of war there than the official U.N. death toll of 3,381, the head of the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Miss...
May 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A view shows graves of civilians killed during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 19, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko/File Photo
Update: Missing Peoria man found
UPDATE: 10:15 a.m. According to an updated release from Peoria Police, 20-year-old Andrew Bigham has been located and is doing well. ---------------------------------- PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Polic...
May 10, 2022 (Peoria Police Dept.)
Alabama jail escapee taken into custody, alleged accomplice dies
UPDATED 9:02 p.m. (Reuters) -An escaped murder suspect and the female corrections officer who allegedly helped him break out of an Alabama jail were taken into custody on Monday in Indiana and the off...
May 09, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Man charged with sheriffs deputy murder makes court date
CAMBRIDGE, Ill. - The man accused of striking and killing a Knox County Sheriffs Deputy with his car while fleeing police in Galesburg will be back in court in two weeks. Court records in Henry County...
May 09, 2022 (Illinois State Police)
