Category Archives: Top Stories
PCCHD offers tips on staying safe throughout the 4th of July weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - With families and friends getting together for 4th of July cookouts over the next few days, the Peoria City/County Health Department says it's important to keep cold foods cold...and ho...
Jul 03, 2025 PictureThisImages / Depositphotos.com
Peoria County Sheriff urges firework safety after recent injuries
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - Peoria County's Sheriff is urging people to be careful with fireworks after an incident near Edwards on Tuesday night. Three people were injured after a firework reportedly went ...
Jul 02, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriffs Department)
Coroner speaks out on recent deaths of young children in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County's Coroner says the death of a baby this week in South Peoria raised suspicions with him almost right away. Seven-month-old Eland Davis was pronounced dead on Tuesday after...
Jul 02, 2025 Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood speaks on the death of one-month-old Grayson Luncsford at a press conference on September 17th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Heights names new police chief
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - There's a new person leading the Peoria Heights Police Department. The village announced Wednesday that Chris Ahart is now the police chief. He takes over for Dustin Sutton, who...
Jul 02, 2025 (File-Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD)
State ends fiscal year with record revenue
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Despite uncertainty over the economy and federal funding during the second half of fiscal year 2025, the year closed on June 30 with the state setting a new...
Jul 02, 2025 The Illinois Capitol is pictured on May 31, 2025, during the final day of the spring session. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Republican doubts delay Trump's tax-cut bill in the House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in the House of Representatives on Wednesday struggled to pass President Donald Trump's massive tax-cut and spending bill as a handful of hardliners withheld their su...
Jul 02, 2025 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks to the press, as Republican lawmakers struggle to pass U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping spending and tax bill, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 2, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon
Former graduate student pleads guilty to murders of four Idaho students
BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) -A man charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death in 2022 pleaded guilty on Wednesday to first-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors that spares the for...
Jul 02, 2025 Bryan Kohberger, charged in the murders of four University of Idaho students, appears at the Ada County Courthouse, in Boise, Idaho, U.S., July 2, 2025. Kyle Green/Pool via REUTERS
Multiple vehicles burglarized Wednesday morning in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating after more than a dozen vehicles were broken into early Wednesday morning. Officers were flagged down just after 3:00 A.M. near Knoxville and Hines, afte...
Jul 02, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: South Peoria baby's cause of death revealed, 41-year-old charged in his death
UPDATE 1:02 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The cause of death for a seven-month-old South Peoria baby who died on Tuesday has been identified. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Eland Davis suffered abusiv...
Jul 02, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Peoria Hispanic festival canceled over deportation concerns
PEORIA, Ill. - A showcase of Hispanic culture along the Peoria Riverfront will not be happening this year. 25 News reports that the Peoria Park District has canceled Fiesta en El Rio over concerns fro...
Jul 02, 2025 (Fiesta en el Rio/Peoria Park District)
