Category Archives: Top Stories
PPS meeting canceled/rescheduled over crowd refusal to wear masks
PEORIA, Ill. -- Parents and teachers who wanted to talk about school masking requirements were shut out as the Peoria Public Schools board meeting was abruptly canceled and rescheduled Tuesday night. ...
Feb 23, 2022 (25 News)
It's "technically already an invasion" - Bradley University expert
PEORIA, Ill. -- It is "technically already an invasion" with Russian forces entering parts of eastern Ukraine this week. It's the perspective of Angela Weck, history department faculty member and a Ru...
Feb 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A tank drives during the Union Courage 2022 joint military exercise of the armed forces of Russia and Belarus, at the Brestsky training ground in Brest Region, Belarus, in this still image taken from video released February 11, 2022. Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS
Sheriffs Department wants help solving smoke shop armed robbery
WEST PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Sheriffs Department is looking for your help solving an armed robbery at a West Peoria business. Officials say one suspect held a victim at gunpoint last Friday, ...
Feb 22, 2022 Surveillance photo via Facebook/Peoria County Sheriffs Department
Potential drug investigation in Pekin
PEKIN, Ill. - There may have been some sort of drug bust in Pekin. A sergeant with the Peoria Metropolitan Enforcement Group tells 25 News officers did go to a home in the 200 block of Derby Street al...
Feb 22, 2022 Midwest Communications
Man charged with 23 counts of Business Burglary
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say they now have a man in custody who's been wanted nearly two weeks for allegedly breaking into a downtown-area business. Police say Edmund Miera, 43, was arrested early...
Feb 22, 2022 Peoria Police
Suspect arrested for incident last week in Mossville
MOSSVILLE, Ill. - A man wanted for allegedly violating an Order of Protection and causing an Emergency Response Team to show up at his wife's home last week is now in custody. The Peoria County Sherif...
Feb 22, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Water company says scams are on the rise
BELLEVILLE, Ill. - Illinois American Water says they've noticed that, like other utilities, the number of potential scams against it customers seem to be on the rise. Officials with the utility say as...
Feb 22, 2022 Illinois American Water
Phoenix Community Development Services opens more housing for homeless
PEORIA, Ill. - More housing for Peorians experiencing homelessness is officially open. Phoenix Community Development Services operates Madison Apartments II -- or, "Madison North," in downtown. "Basic...
Feb 22, 2022 (Phoenix Community Development Services via Facebook)
Update: Ahmaud Arbery's killers convicted on all federal hate-crimes charges
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Reuters) - The three white men convicted of chasing down and murdering a young Black man, Ahmaud Arbery, as he was out jogging in their suburban Georgia community, were found guilty on...
Feb 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a sign outside the Glynn County Courthouse after the jury reached a guilty verdict in the trial of William "Roddie" Bryan, Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael, charged with the February 2020 death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, in Brunswick, Georgia, U.S., November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo
Bailey rallies in Peoria to end school mask mandate
PEORIA, Ill. -- More than 100 people filled a Peoria bar Monday night to rally against a mask mandate at Peoria Public Schools. State Senator and Gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey hosted the event...
Feb 22, 2022 (25 News)
