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Firefighters battle electrical fire Sunday night in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria crews were called to a home on N. North Street, near W. Lake, just before 11 p.m. Sunday on reports of a fire. Light smoke could be seen coming from the exterior of the home. Ba...
Julia Bradley May 08, 2023 D4E / CC
UPDATE: Texas driver charged with manslaughter after deadly Brownsville crash
UPDATED 5:26 P.M. (Reuters) - A Texas man accused of crashing his car into a group of pedestrians near a Brownsville homeless shelter housing migrants, killing eight people, has been charged with mans...
Julia Bradley May 08, 2023 George Alvarez, 34, accused of mowing down a group of pedestrians with his SUV near a homeless shelter that attends to migrants, attends his arraignment charged with eight counts of manslaughter in Brownsville, Texas, U.S. May 8, 2023 in a still image from video. Brownsville Police Department/Handout via REUTERS
Biden, McCarthy aim to break US debt-ceiling standoff as default crisis looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and top Republicans and Democrats from Congress are set to sit down this week to try to resolve a three-month standoff over the $31.4 trillion U.S. debt ceil...
Julia Bradley May 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden hands a copy of the speech to U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) prior to delivering State of the Union address his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 7, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Downed branches, power outages the story of Sunday's severe weather
PEORIA, Ill. - There weren't a lot of reports of major damage from the second round of severe weather to hit the Tri-Counties during the weekend, but most of the damage reports were of the same proble...
Will Stevenson May 07, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
11 injured in Peoria rollover crash
PEORIA, Ill. - As many as eleven people were injured when a vehicle overturned Sunday afternoon in the Central Peoria area. Peoria Fire says the rollover crash happened at Knoxville and Corrington. Th...
Will Stevenson May 07, 2023 (Social media via 25 News)
Police chief issues warning about "pop-up parties" after Friday night incidents
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Police Chief is singing a familiar refrain after what he says was a busy Friday night for his force. Chief Eric Echevarria says four people were arrested Friday night -- he d...
Will Stevenson May 07, 2023 (25 News)
Former FCC Chair Newton Minow, who called 1960s TV 'vast wasteland', dies at 97
(Reuters) - Former U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton Minow, who lambasted television as a "vast wasteland" more than 60 years ago and challenged the broadcast world to come up with i...
Will Stevenson May 07, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton Minow is pictured in undated file photo./File Photo
Amended Native American repatriation measure heads to full Senate
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - For decades, Illinois has failed to return Native American remains and belongings to their communities despite a federal law mandating states to do so. Illi...
Will Stevenson May 07, 2023 Sen. Cristina Pacione-Zayas, D-Chicago, is pictured on the floor of the Illinois Senate. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Collins: Severe weather possible again Sunday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Like we needed another reminder that it's severe weather season in Illinois. We got such a reminder Saturday night, and 25 News First Alert Meteorologist Chuck Collins says we may very ...
Will Stevenson May 07, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Former Peoria Mayor Richard Carver passes away
SARASOTA, Fla. - A long-running now-former Peoria Mayor whose last name is likely familiar to you has passed away. An online obituary says Richard Carver died Friday in Sarasota, Florida, at the age o...
Will Stevenson May 07, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/via 25 News)