Category Archives: Top Stories
PPD asks for help in finding missing man
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police are asking for the public's help in locating a missing man who hasn't been seen for almost a week. 54-year-old Von Fitzpatrick was last seen about 9 a.m. on February 2nd ...
Feb 08, 2022 (Peoria Police Department)
Peoria home destroyed by fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria home is a total loss after a fire Monday night. Crews were called to the area of S. Lydia and SW Adams Street just after 6 p.m., finding fire coming from a first-floor window ...
Feb 08, 2022 (25 News)
PPS narrowly approves modified school calendar
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public School Board members have voted to change the annual school calendar, shortening summer break by nearly two weeks and lengthening both fall and spring break periods. Foll...
Feb 08, 2022 Peoria Public Schools via YouTube
Mackinaw Police want help identifying suspect in multiple crimes
MACKINAW, Ill. - Police in Mackinaw say they need help finding and identifying a suspect in a series of criminal activities there. Police say the suspect is wanted on a number of charges, including se...
Feb 07, 2022 Mackinaw Police
Update: Juvenile dies from stabbing near Quest Charter Academy
UPDATED 2:12 p.m. 2/8/22 PEORIA, Ill. -- A juvenile boy has died and two people, including another juvenile, are under arrest after a stabbing Monday afternoon near Quest Charter Middle School in Peor...
Feb 07, 2022 (25 News)
Olympics-Figure skating-Zhou withdraws from Beijing after positive COVID test
BEIJING (Reuters) -American figure skater Vincent Zhou said on Monday he has withdrawn from the Beijing Olympics ahead of this week's men's singles competition after testing positive for COVID-19. A t...
Feb 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: 2022 Beijing Olympics - Figure Skating - Team Event - Men Single Skating - Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing, China - February 6, 2022. Vincent Zhou of the United States in action. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
Peoria one of sites for new initiative from Drug Enforcement Administration
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Drug Enforcement Administration is starting a new initiative to, it says, combat drug-related violence and overdoses across the country -- and Peoria is one of the places it's s...
Feb 07, 2022 Drug Enforcement Administration
Biden, Germany's Scholz stress unity against Russia on Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and Germany on Monday sought to present a united front against potential Russian military aggression in Ukraine, with President Joe Biden declaring the two in "...
Feb 07, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden responds to questions from reporters as he meets with his Competition Council in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S. January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis
East Peoria teacher apologizes after controversial COVID-19-related post
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - An East Peoria high school teacher and former journalist has apologized for a post making the rounds on social media obviously against the lifting of a COVID-19-related mask mandat...
Feb 07, 2022
Affidavit reveals details of death of infant, allegedly at hands of father
WASHINGTON, Ill. - Prosecutors in Tazewell County are laying out their case against a Washington man charged with the murder of his three month old son. According to a probable cause affidavit obtaine...
Feb 07, 2022 Tazewell County Jail via 25 News
