Category Archives: Top Stories
Final Preparations Underway For UnityPoint Health Red White & Boom!
With a fireworks show as big as UnityPoint Health Red, White and Boom, brought home by Adam Merrick Real Estate, it's all in the details. Midwest 360 Peoria Market Manager Mike Wild says Thursday's fi...
Julia Bradley Jul 03, 2019 Midwest 360 Peoria
"Laugh-In" Star Arte Johnson Dies At 90
(AP) - Actor Arte Johnson, who won an Emmy for comedy sketch work on the television show "Laugh-In," has died in Los Angeles. He was 90. Family representative Harlan Boll says Johnson died early Wedne...
Jul 03, 2019 AP Photo
Judge Says No To Christensen Sentencing Delay
(AP) - A judge has denied a request to delay sentencing for a former University of Illinois student convicted in the kidnapping and murder of a visiting Chinese scholar. The Champaign News-Gazette rep...
Jul 03, 2019
Pekin Man Dead Following Tazewell County Crash
A Pekin man has died following a two-vehicle accident near South Pekin. The victim is identified as Chad Williams, 42. Williams was found entrapped in the passenger seat of his vehicle following the a...
Jul 03, 2019
Lee Iacocca, Engineer Of Chrysler's Turnaround, Dies At 94
(AP) - Former colleagues say ex-Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca has died at age 94 in Bel Air, California. Iacocca was a master pitchman. He put the Mustang in Ford's lineup in the 1960s. Two decades later, ...
Julia Bradley Jul 03, 2019
Illinois Sees Record Tourism
(Springfield)--Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday, more than 117 million visitors traveled to our state in 2018, setting a new record. According to the U.S. Travel Association, visitors spent $41.7 billi...
Julia Bradley Jul 03, 2019
Taft Homes Getting Multi-Million Dollar Makeover
(25 News)--Peoria's Taft Homes will be getting a makeover, a makeover that could cost 17-20 million dollars. Housing Director Jackie L Newman says the cost will be covered through funding from state a...
Julia Bradley Jul 03, 2019
Police Will Be Out Full Force On The Fourth Of July
The Fourth of July is a time for fun and fireworks, but police want to remind everyone to be safe. Sgt. Tony Halsey with Illinois State Police said tens of thousands of people will be along the riverf...
Julia Bradley Jul 03, 2019
Team USA Advances Into Women's World Cup Final
(AP) - Alex Morgan celebrated her go-ahead goal with a cheeky tea-sipping celebration and Alyssa Naeher stopped a late penalty kick to send the United States into the final at the Women's World Cup wi...
Mike Sabol Jul 02, 2019
Pence Abruptly Canceled Trip To New Hampshire
(AP) - Vice President Mike Pence has abruptly canceled a planned trip to New Hampshire, but the White House and his office refuse to say why. White House spokesman Judd Deere said only that, "Somethin...
Kristina Leahy Jul 02, 2019 Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a news conference following a tour on the USNS Comfort, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, in Miami. The hospital ship is scheduled to embark on a five-month medical assistance mission to Latin America and the Caribbean, including several countries struggling to absorb migrants from crisis-wracked Venezuela. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)