Category Archives: Top Stories
Former Reditus CEO accused of receiving contraband in jail
PEORIA, Ill. - The former CEO of Reditus labs is accused of receiving contraband in the Peoria County Jail. 25 News reports Aaron Rossi has been indicted on charges relating to it, a week after a Peor...
Mar 19, 2025 (25 News)
Peoria home deemed a total loss after fire on Western Avenue
PEORIA, Ill. - A portion of S. Western Avenue in Peoria was closed down Wednesday morning for a fire. Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Hascall says crews responded to a home on S. Western, near Ann and Antoi...
Mar 19, 2025 A home on S. Western Avenue was deemed a total loss Wednesday morning. (25 News)
East Peoria extends moratorium on new smoke shops
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - East Peoria's City Council wants more time to consider ways to regulate smoke and tobacco shops, so they don't turn up in areas considered undesirable. The council Tuesday night vo...
Mar 19, 2025 (City of East Peoria)
Trump releases JFK assassination documents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump released material related to the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday, seeking to honor his campaign promise to provide m...
Mar 19, 2025 A statue of President John F. Kennedy stands outside the State House, as President Donald Trump plans to release about 80,000 pages of material related to the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., March 18, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Russia and Ukraine report air attacks after Putin-Trump call
(Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Wednesday of violating a new agreement to refrain from attacks on energy targets, with scores of drone strikes launched hours after U.S. President ...
Mar 19, 2025 View shows damaged private houses at a site of a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Hostomel, Kyiv region, Ukraine March 19, 2025. REUTERS/Alina Smutko
Cell phone ban legislation clears Senate committee
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - Legislation that would prohibit public school students from using cell phones and other wireless communication devices during class time cleared a Senate committe...
Mar 19, 2025 Sen. Christina Castro, right, and Samir Tanna, deputy legislative director for Gov. JB Pritzker, testify before a Senate committee Tuesday on a bill that would require all school districts in Illinois to adopt policies restricting cell phone use in classrooms. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
UPDATE: Severe storms possible Wednesday afternoon, with a chance of light snow overnight
UPDATE: 10:40 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A significant threat of severe storms continues for all of Central Illinois through Wednesday evening. 25 News First Alert Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins has desig...
Mar 19, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
NASA astronauts 'Butch and Suni' return to Earth after drawn-out mission in space
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday with a soft splashdown off Florida's coast, nine months after their faulty Boeing...
Mar 18, 2025 Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, two veteran NASA astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station for nine months, wave at the hatch of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule before closing the hatch in preparation for undocking from the ISS to begin their return to Earth March 17, 2025 in this still image taken from video. NASA/Handout via REUTERS
Peoria bar owner sued for allegedly not paying song license fees
PEORIA, Ill. - The owner of a Peoria bar is being sued for allegedly playing unlicensed music. Martini's on Water Street is one of 15 venues or establishments across the country being sued by the Amer...
Mar 18, 2025 (Martini's on Water Facebook)
Israel warns more to come as airstrikes kill over 400 in Gaza after two months of truce
JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza and killed more than 400 people on Tuesday, Palestinian health authorities said, shattering nearly two months of relative calm since a ceasef...
Mar 18, 2025 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a residential building in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip March 18, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
