Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria County Coroner ID's victim following fatal crash near Hanna City
PEORIA COUNTY Ill. - The identity of the man who died in the three-vehicle crash in rural Peoria County Thursday, has been revealed. According to Peoria County Coroner, Jamie Harwood, it was 69-year-o...
Jan 17, 2025 (Peoria County Coroner)
Sangamon County enters agreement to end DOJ investigation
Sangamon County, its sheriff's office and its central dispatch system on Thursday announced an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve an investigation spurred by the shooting of Sony...
Jan 17, 2025 A Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office car is pictured outside of the county building in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Illinois Supreme Court hears arguments on a challenge to Illinois' concealed carry law
SPRINGFIELD - Amid multiple recent challenges to state gun control laws, the Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday concerning the constitutionality of concealed carry licenses and open car...
Jan 17, 2025 The Illinois Supreme Court is pictured in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Peoria city crews working to fill potholes, amid warmer weather
PEORIA Ill. - Peoria City Crews are taking advantage of the warm weather to better local roadways... With temperatures as high as 50 degrees Friday -- Peoria's Department of Public Work's took to the ...
Jan 17, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Early voting begins for Peoria's Consolidated Primary Election
Election season is back in Peoria... According to the executive director of Peoria County's Election Commission, Elizabeth Gannon, early voting began Thursday for the 2025 Consolidated Primary. Gannon...
Jan 17, 2025 (City of Peoria)
Trio arrested on mob action/aggravated assault charges in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police were called to W. Wardcliffe Drive Thursday afternoon on reports of several women fighting. They were also told one of the women had a gun. PPD Spokesperson Semone Roth sa...
Jan 17, 2025
Pharma digs in on changes it wants from Trump administration
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The pharmaceutical industry, grappling with new government limits on drug prices, is focusing its requests for president-elect Donald Trump and Congress on "fixing" a Biden-e...
Jan 17, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Used blister packets that contained medicines, tablets and pills are seen, in this picture illustration taken June 30, 2018. REUTERS/Russell Boyce/Illustration/File photo
As the bitter cold settles in this weekend, area warming centers will be open
PEORIA, Ill. - With frigid cold temperatures in our forecast this weekend, city officials in Peoria, East Peoria and surrounding communities want you to know warming centers will be open. In Peoria, t...
Jan 17, 2025 (illinois.gov)
Kristi Noem pledges to revive Trump's border policy as Homeland Security nominee
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump's planned immigration crackdown emerged as a top theme at a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing for South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, his choice for se...
Jan 17, 2025 Kristi Noem, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of Homeland Security nominee, testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 17, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Jury hears last evidence in Madigan trial as defense rests case
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Attorneys for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan rested their case Thursday, marking the beginning of the end of the longtime Democratic powerbroker's corr...
Jan 17, 2025 Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after the second week of testimony in his corruption trial on Oct. 31, 2024. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
