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Senate President Harmon appeals $10M fine for improper campaign contributions
Article Summary The Illinois State Board of Elections fined Senate President Don Harmon $9.8 million for accepting greater campaign donations than the law allowed in 2024. Harmon loaned his campaign m...
Aug 20, 2025 Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, is pictured on the Senate floor. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
UPDATE: 15-year-old injured after shooting near Peoria Manual High School, PPS releases statement
UPDATED 4:02 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Public Schools says a normal schedule is planned for Manual High School on Thursday after a shooting incident near the school this Wednesday afternoon. Peoria P...
Aug 20, 2025
Peoria Public Schools unveil Glen Barton School to the public
PEORIA, Ill. - The ribbon was cut on the new home for alternative programs at Peoria Public Schools. School and community leaders celebrated the opening of the Glen Barton School on Wednesday morning,...
Aug 20, 2025 Streamers are popped as Peoria Public Schools and city leaders cut the ribbon on the Glen Barton School. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Update: Ducks sold out for 37th Duck Race for the Center for Prevention of Abuse
Updated 10:40 a.m. (8/21) PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's Duck Race for the Center for Prevention of Abuse is one of the longest-running races of its kind...and it's back this weekend. This is the event's 37t...
Aug 20, 2025 (Center for Prevention of Abuse via Facebook)
Hurricane Erin threatens North Carolina's Outer Banks with storm surge
(Reuters) -Hurricane Erin, churning north in the Atlantic hundreds of miles offshore, is expected to trigger a dangerous storm surge and tropical storm conditions on Wednesday along North Carolina's O...
Aug 20, 2025 A person stands by the beach during Hurricane Erin, the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season, in Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey, U.S., August 20, 2025. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Trump targets the Smithsonian again, says it focuses too much on how bad slavery was
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday he will pressure the Smithsonian Institution - a premier museum, education and research complex for U.S. history and culture - to...
Aug 20, 2025 FILE PHOTO: The exterior of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 1, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon/File photo
Washington nurse given sex offender probation for inappropriately touching a minor
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. (25 News) - A Washington man's nursing license has been suspended, but it's possible he won't spend any time behind bars after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of sexually abu...
Aug 20, 2025 (Tazewell County Jail via 25 News)
UPDATE: Texas Republicans approve Trump-backed congressional map to protect party's majority
UPDATED 5:33 P.M. (Reuters) -Texas legislators on Wednesday passed a new state congressional map drawn at the behest of President Donald Trump to flip five Democratic-held U.S. House seats in next yea...
Aug 20, 2025 Lawmakers speak during a legislative session as Democratic lawmakers, who left the state to deny Republicans the opportunity to redraw the state's 38 congressional districts, begin returning to the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, U.S. August 20, 2025. REUTERS/Sergio Flores
Peoria man to be resentenced for 2022 DUI crash that killed a Bartonville teen
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. (25 News) - A Peoria man will be resentenced after an appeal court overturned the maximum sentence he was given for a deadly high-speed crash over three years ago that killed a Bar...
Aug 20, 2025 Clayton Bell (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Leaders celebrate 50th anniversary Dirksen Congressional Center in Pekin
PEKIN, Ill. - The legacy of a Pekin-native who helped pass some of the most notable pieces of legislation in United States history was celebrated at the place that bears his name. Leaders across centr...
Aug 19, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
