Category Archives: Top Stories
Armed man inside Rockford bank
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - Authorities in Illinois said customers or employees were stuck inside a bank with an armed robber Friday. Police surrounded Heritage Credit Union in Rockford, about 90 miles nort...
Jan 03, 2020
Trump says US not looking to start war with Iran
BAGHDAD (AP) - President Donald Trump says the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani was not undertaken in an effort to begin a conflict with Iran. Speaking to reporters in Florida for the first time since...
Jan 03, 2020 (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
US sending troops to Mideast
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is sending nearly 3,000 more Army troops to the Mideast as reinforcements in the volatile aftermath of the killing of an Iranian general in a strike ordered by Pres...
Jan 03, 2020 (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Goedl via AP)
PFD installed over 100 smoke alarms for community
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Fire Department helped out the community by checking and installing alarms in homes. In 2019, the PFD helped install 142 smoke alarms and 72 carbon monoxide alarms. Division...
Jan 03, 2020 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
IDOR reminds small business owners of new tax credit
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois' small businesses may be able to offset the state's new minimum wage increase with a special tax credit. The Illinois Department of Revenue said in a news release Friday ...
Jan 03, 2020
Tension in the Middle East; Iran's Gen. Soleimani killed in Baghdad strike
BAGHDAD --(AP) - Iraqi state TV and three Iraqi officials say Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad's international airport. Th...
Jan 03, 2020
Man accused of drowning his wife pleads not guilty
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) -- A Peoria man charged with murder in his wife's death pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Thursday. Michael L. Vorrath, 63, was arrested December 13 and faces one charge of ...
Jan 03, 2020 Peoria County Jail
Suspects accused of fatal night club shooting plead not guilty
PEORIA, Ill. -- Two men charged with murder in the Dec. 13 fatal shooting of 24-year-old Patrick Moton have pleaded not guilty. Tyrese Walker, 20, and Desmond Sanders, 29, appeared in court Thursday f...
Jan 03, 2020 Peoria County Jail
First day of pot sales brings in over $3 million
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois' first day of legal recreational marijuana generated nearly $3.2 million in sales, state officials announced Thursday. There were 77, 128 transactions on New Year's Day, when t...
Jan 02, 2020 MWC
A ban for most flavored e-cigarettes
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. health officials will ban most flavored e-cigarettes popular with underage teenagers. But the plan from the Trump administration includes major exceptions that benefit companies...
Jan 02, 2020 Midwest Communications
