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Pekin honors local heroes
PEKIN, Ill. - any people feel they're heroes anyway; but Monday, some of the men and women on the Pekin Police and fire forces got officially recognized for it. The officers received either department...
Mar 21, 2022 (25 News)
Victims in fatal UTV crash identified
TREMONT, Ill. - Two sisters from Minnesota have been identified as the two who died when the utility terrain vehicle they were in collided with a pickup truck late Saturday afternoon near Tremont. Cha...
Mar 21, 2022 25 News
Morton Schools dispute newspaper report of Title IX settlement
MORTON, Ill. - The Morton School District is taking issue with a Peoria Journal Star article saying that a settlement has been reached between the feds and the district over a Title IX complaint. The ...
Mar 21, 2022 Morton School District
Greta Van Fleet show at Peoria Civic Center postponed
PEORIA, Ill. - A popular rock group that was going to be at the Peoria Civic Center in a few days is postponing its tour after one of the band members has fallen ill. Greta Van Fleet is cancelling a s...
Mar 21, 2022 Nicolas Padovani / CC
Peoria-Pekin gas prices dip slightly -AAA
AURORA, Ill. - AAA says the average price of a gallon of gas in Peoria is getting a little better, but not much, despite the ongoing war in Ukraine. The Peoria-Pekin current average gas price is at ju...
Mar 21, 2022 AAA
Gov Pritzker says BA-2 sub variant impact remains muted for now in Illinois
Governor J.B. Pritzker says state officials have been keeping an eye on the emerging new COVID-19 sub variant that's surging in other parts of the world. It's led to China's first recorded COVID-19 de...
Mar 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Governor of Illinois Jay Robert Pritzker speaks during a science initiative event at the University of Chicago, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. July 23, 2020. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski
New retailer coming to Shoppes at Grand Prairie
PEORIA, Ill. - A new store is coming to the Shoppes at Grand Prairie -- taking over real estate once occupied by a former iconic brand. The Shoppes at Grand Prairie says in a news release that discoun...
Mar 21, 2022
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of IL fined for violating notice requirements
CHICAGO, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Insurance has fined the parent company of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois for violating material change notice requirements. For the first time ever, the...
Mar 21, 2022 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
FDA advisers to discuss COVID vaccine boosters in April
(Reuters) -The U.S. drug regulator said on Monday a panel of independent advisers will meet on April 6 to discuss considerations for use of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses. The U.S. Food and Drug Admin...
Mar 21, 2022 A person wears a required protective face mask on a bus amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Washington, U.S. January 31, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger
'Cowboys for Trump' founder faces U.S. Capitol riot criminal trial
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New Mexico county commissioner who founded a group called "Cowboys for Trump" faces trial on Monday on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, in an i...
Mar 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A mob of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump fight with members of law enforcement at a door they broke open as they storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
