Category Archives: Top Stories
Rural Hanna City home lost due to fire
HANNA CITY, Ill. - A home outside of Hanna City has been destroyed by fire. Logan-Trivoli Assistant Fire Chief Chris Matzke tells our news partner 25 News eight different departments had to respond to...
Jan 21, 2022 (25 News)
Biden tells mayors to spend COVID aid to boost workforces, job training
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden called on U.S. mayors on Friday to use more of their state and local COVID-19 aid funds to boost worker training and pay child care workers, moves that could...
Jan 21, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden makes remarks during the U.S. Conference of Mayors 90th Winter Meeting in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Peoria man guilty of murder for 2021 stabbing death
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has been convicted in a stabbing death that occurred about five months ago. Court records indicate a jury found Micha Gordon, 55, guilty of First-Degree Murder. He's schedu...
Jan 21, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
U.S. and Russia agree to keep talking after meeting on Ukraine
GENEVA (Reuters) -The top U.S. and Russian diplomats made no major breakthrough at talks on Ukraine on Friday but agreed to keep talking to try to resolve a crisis that has stoked fears of a military ...
Jan 21, 2022 A local resident walks with his bicycle as service members of the Ukrainian armed forces are seen near the line of separation from Russian-backed rebels outside Horlivka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, January 20, 2022. REUTERS/Anna Kudriavtseva
Pop-up COVID-19 company won't resume IL operations for now
CHICAGO, Ill. - Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul says a company that had been operating pop-up COVID-19 testing sites around the country won't reopen here any time soon. Raoul says the Center for...
Jan 21, 2022 Center for Covid Control
Woman pleads guilty to shooting involving father
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria woman will not need to serve more time in jail after pleading guilty to shooting at her father last year. Peoria County Circuit Court records indicate Ronda Frye, 50, pleaded g...
Jan 21, 2022 Peoria County Sheriff's Office
Toulon Alderman makes court appearance on child porn charges
TOULON, Ill. - A Toulon man and City Council member there now officially faces nine felony counts of Possession of Child Pornography. Our news partner 25 News reports Jason Musselman, 34, appeared in ...
Jan 21, 2022 (Stark County Jail via 25 News)
Rash of burglaries leads Pekin Police to standoff, arrest of several suspects
PEORIA, Ill -- A string of recent residential burglaries in Pekin may be over with the arrest of several suspects this week. The arrests came after a sustained standoff with Pekin Police at a local re...
Jan 21, 2022 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
ACLU concerned about Peoria using LPR cams
PEORIA, Ill. -- Privacy concerns are being raised by a civil liberties group over new license plate recognition cameras being installed in Peoria. Peoria's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Unio...
Jan 21, 2022 (25 News)
Actor/Comedian Louie Anderson dead at 68
(Reuters) -Louie Anderson, a three-time Emmy Award winner, comedian and game show host, died on Friday morning after a battle with cancer, his publicist told Deadline. He was 68. The star of the comed...
Jan 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Actor Louie Anderson poses backstage with his award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on the FX series "Baskets" at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California U.S., September 18, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuon
