Category Archives: Top Stories
FBI storms Texas synagogue to release hostages, gunman dead
UPDATE: 5 a.m. 1/17: COLLEYVILLE, Texas -- U.S. and British authorities continue to investigate the weekend standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended with an armed British national dead and a rabbi cre...
Jan 16, 2022 REUTERS/Shelby Tauber
Djokovic flies out of Australia after losing court appeal
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Tennis superstar Novak Djokovic boarded a plane to leave Australia on Sunday after the Federal Court upheld a government decision to cancel his visa on the grounds that his decis...
Jan 16, 2022 REUTERS/Loren Elliott
JOLT Harm Reduction moves to new location
PEORIA, Ill. - (25 News) - A local organization - aimed at healing communities - is expanding into a bigger, better building. JOLT Harm Reduction said goodbye to its old building on Northeast Adams St...
Jan 16, 2022
Winter storm now threatens U.S. Southeast with snow & ice, hundreds of flights cancelled
UPDATE: 01/15/2022 11:45 a.m. (Undated) -- The nation's next winter storm continues it's march after dumping a foot of snow in some hardest hit parts of the Midwest. The bulk of Central Illinois commu...
Jan 15, 2022 Midwest Communications
First candidate files to replace outgoing Peoria County Sheriff
PEORIA, Ill -- There is a new candidate filing to run for Peoria County Sheriff now that current Sheriff Brian Asbell is on his way out. The first candidate to file is Blaine Duhs, a long-time deputy ...
Jan 15, 2022
Piano teacher sentenced to 450 years on child porn, assault charges
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - A former Pekin resident and former piano teacher is going to prison for the rest of his life. Our news partner 25 News reports a judge in McLean County Friday handed Aaron Parlier ...
Jan 14, 2022 Mugshot via 25 News
UnityPoint, OSF urge blood donations
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's two major hospital systems are joining the call for more blood donations, and fast. A joint statement from UnityPoint Health and OSF HealthCare says increased demand and decrea...
Jan 14, 2022 Midwest Communications
Another Peoria Police Anti-Violence special detail completed, says Chief
PEORIA, Ill. - Yet another step in Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria's anti-violence initiative has just been completed. The Chief says in a news release Peoria Police from multiple divisions along ...
Jan 14, 2022 MWC-Peoria Police Media Release
U.S. households can order 4 free COVID-19 tests starting Jan. 19 - White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. households can order four free at-home COVID-19 tests from the website COVIDTests.gov starting on Jan. 19 with shipping expected within seven to 12 days of ordering, the Wh...
Jan 14, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Take home COVID-19 self testing kits provided by the District of Columbia government, which provides city residents four free take home tests per day, are seen in this illustration taken January 11, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Illustration
Injured East Peoria officer gets sendoff to Chicago
PEORIA, Ill. - A hero's sendoff near downtown Peoria Friday afternoon. Our news partner 25 News reports more than a dozen different police departments helped Officer Karson Klyber leave OSF Saint Fran...
Jan 14, 2022 Illinois State Police
