Category Archives: Top Stories
Princeville Schools go to remote learning due to potential COVID outbreak
PRINCEVILLE, Ill. - A Peoria County school district is going to remote learning until early December, after what might end up being an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in the school. The Princeville School ...
Nov 22, 2021 Princeville School District
Driver to face homicide charges for deaths at Wisconsin Christmas parade
UPDATED 5:28 P.M. WAUKESHA, Wis. (Reuters) -The man accused of deliberately driving his car into a crowded Milwaukee-area Christmas parade over the weekend, killing five people and injuring dozens of ...
Nov 22, 2021 Darrell Brooks poses for a booking photograph at the Milwaukee County Jail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. November 3, 2021. Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS
Peoria hires Green as Diversity Officer
PEORIA, Ill. - The City of Peoria has hired someone for a $110,000 a year city job, and she's already familiar with city operations. The city says Melodi Green, a Peoria native and attorney, becomes P...
Nov 22, 2021 Melodi Green (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/City of Peoria)
'Mansfield Mondays' may help save Washington's Sunnyland branch library
WASHINGTON, Ill. - A teacher in the Washington School District may very well be on a one-man mission to save the Sunnyland branch of the Washington District Library. Jace Mansfield started "Mansfield ...
Nov 22, 2021 (25 News)
South Side Mission continues its holiday traditions
PEORIA, Ill. -- Volunteers at Peoria's South Side Mission were busy on Monday making pies, cranberry sauce and rolls, and preparing them for delivery. "A few additional things we do, then we get it al...
Nov 22, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. airlines, airports brace for busy Thanksgiving travel week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. airlines and airports braced for a surge of travelers ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, hoping the weather forecast remains calm as millions more Americans will hit the ro...
Nov 22, 2021 Travelers walk through O'Hare International Airport ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 20, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Five dead, more than 40 injured after vehicle plows through Wisconsin parade
WAUKESHA, Wis. (Reuters) - A speeding SUV plowed into dozens of people, including children, during a Christmas parade in a small Wisconsin city on Sunday, leaving a scene of chaos and carnage in its w...
Nov 22, 2021 Police and emergency responders gather after a vehicle plowed through the Christmas Parade, leaving multiple people injured in Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S. November 21, 2021. Scott Ash-USA TODAY NETWORK via REUTERS
Chaos at Atlanta airport as convicted felon's gun goes off, 3 hurt - police
(Reuters) -Authorities searched for a gun owner who fled after his weapon fired by accident at Atlanta's airport, sending terrified travelers bolting onto the tarmac on Saturday, halting flights durin...
Nov 21, 2021 Twitter/mohiterajas/via REUTERS
Festival of Lights begins in East Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. (25 NEWS) -- Hundreds came out to "FOLEPI" Saturday to celebrate the start of the holiday season. The East Peoria Festival of Lights Parade returned for its 37th year, and it featured doz...
Nov 21, 2021 25 News
Three hospitalized in critical condition following Peoria house fire
PEORIA, Ill. - A total of four people were hospitalized following a house fire in Peoria. Three are reported in critical condition, including one person who was transferred to the burn unit of Springf...
Nov 21, 2021 Midwest Communications
