Category Archives: Top Stories
Farmington restaurant destroyed by fire relocating to Pekin
FARMINGTON, Ill. - A Farmington restaurant that lost its home after a recent fire will soon officially. Asher's Bar and Grille was destroyed by fire around Thanksgiving of last year -- one of three bu...
Mar 05, 2022 (25 News)
Fulton County man hospitalized after grain auger accident
FULTON COUNTY, Ill. - A Fulton County man is hospitalized after an on-farm accident Friday. 25 News reports a 60-year-old Cuba man's leg became trapped in a grain auger. He was taken by helicopter to ...
Mar 05, 2022 (Cass-Putnam Rescue Squad via 25 News)
Pritzker revises COVID-19-related executive order
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - It's back to normal for Illinois schools in terms of infectious diseases. Governor JB Pritzker signed an updated Executive Order Friday, after the state says they've seen "vast imp...
Mar 05, 2022 Midwest Communications
U.S. Embassy in Ukraine calls nuclear power plant attack 'war crime'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine said that attacking a nuclear power plant is a war crime, after Russia on Friday seized a Ukrainian nuclear facility that is the biggest in Europe. Th...
Mar 05, 2022 Surveillance camera footage shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant following shelling, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Enerhodar, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine March 4, 2022, in this screengrab from a video obtained from social media. Zaporizhzhya NPP via YouTube via REUTERS
Russia announces limited ceasefire in Ukraine to allow evacuations but continues broad offensive
LVIV/KYIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia said its forces had stopped firing near two besieged Ukrainian cities on Saturday to allow safe passage to civilians fleeing fighting, but city officials said Mosc...
Mar 05, 2022 Service members of the Ukrainian armed forces are seen atop of a tank at their positions outside the settlement of Makariv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, near Zhytomyr, Ukraine March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Maksim Levin
PPD sting nets illegal firearms arrests and two out of state fugitives
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police arrested fugitives from other states including a murder suspect from Missouri this week. PPD is announcing the results of its most recent anti-violence enforcement effort...
Mar 04, 2022 1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Police want help identifying ATM theft suspect
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say they are looking for a man who attempted to steal an ATM earlier this week. Police say it happened prior to 9:00 a.m. Monday near University and War Memorial, around 3...
Mar 04, 2022 (Surveillance photo via Peoria Police)
Former Journal Star reporter authors book about former House Speaker
PEORIA, Ill. - It is, perhaps, timely that a new book outlining former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's time as the top Democrat in Illinois politics is now out, since Madigan was indicted on ...
Mar 04, 2022 (University of Illinois Press)
Exhibit of quilts owned by filmmaker Ken Burns on display at Peoria Riverfront Museum
PEORIA, Ill. - Starting Saturday, you can see something at the Peoria Riverfront Museum that few have seen, from documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. "Uncovered: The Ken Burns Collection" is a group of 26...
Mar 04, 2022 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
U.S. Supreme Court reinstates Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday reinstated convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence for his role in the 2013 attack that killed three people and wound...
Mar 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, arrested in the Boston Marathon bombing, is pictured in this handout photo presented as evidence by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston, Massachusetts on March 23, 2015. REUTERS/U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston/Handout via Reuters
