Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria adopts $300M budget with increased spending, but flat tax rate
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - The Peoria City Council on Tuesday night unanimously approved a nearly $301 million budget for next year, with a focus on improving infrastructure and paying more for employee...
Oct 29, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Caterpillar beats estimates as AI boom drives energy equipment demand
(Reuters) -Caterpillar topped third-quarter profit and revenue estimates on Wednesday as a boom in AI technologies drove demand for its energy equipment, sending its shares up about 4% before the bell...
Oct 29, 2025 The company logo for Caterpillar is displayed on a screen on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., April 15, 2025. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
PFD: Peoria home a total loss after early morning fire
PEORIA, Ill. - Arson appears to be the cause of a fire Wednesday morning at the corner of Frye and Atlantic in Peoria. Fire Battalion Chief Rick Waldron says crews arrived just after 4:15 a.m., findin...
Oct 29, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Hurricane Melissa hits Cuba hours after devastating Jamaica
HAVANA/KINGSTON (Reuters) -Hurricane Melissa slammed into Cuba early on Wednesday, hours after causing devastation in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever storm on record to hit that Caribbean is...
Oct 29, 2025 Waves batter the shoreline ahead of Hurricane Melissa's landfall, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, October 28, 2025. REUTERS/Norlys Perez
$5.5M settlement reached in Reditus whistleblower suit
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit paying $5.5 million to the government and to a whistleblower who helped send former Reditus Labs CEO Aaron Rossi to prison for defra...
Oct 29, 2025 (25 News)
Sheridan road to receive overhaul with help of state funding
PEORIA, Ill. - One of Peoria's main roads will be getting an overhaul in the next few years. The state of Illinois has announced $10 million in funding to go towards a complete renovation of Sheridan ...
Oct 28, 2025 (Peoria County Government)
Bovino ordered to make daily court appearances after three days of tear gas in Chicago
Article Summary U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino spent a little more than an hour testifying in U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' courtroom Tuesday after she ordered him to appear...
Oct 28, 2025 U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino signals to immigration agents as he leaves the Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Oct. 28. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Long-stalled push to make US daylight saving time permanent hits dead end
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate briefly took up a long-stalled effort on Tuesday to make daylight saving time permanent and end the twice-yearly practice of switching clocks, but again failed to...
Oct 28, 2025 A bird flies across the U.S. Capitol rotunda, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Illinois joins lawsuit to force federal government not to pause SNAP benefits
Article Summary Illinois is one of 25 states suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture over plans to pause benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Saturday. The USDA has said Nove...
Oct 28, 2025
Grand jury indicts four people in connection to Peoria teenager's shooting death
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has indicted multiple individuals involved in the shooting death of a teenager earlier this month. The grand jury on Tuesday indicted three people for First D...
Oct 28, 2025 courtroom gavel
