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Several pets die in Peoria fire Friday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters responded to reports of a residential fire Friday night in the 2100 block of N. Machin Avenue. Fire Battalion Chief Tom Stimeling says around 8:20 p.m., crews found ...
Oct 19, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Man who died in wrong way crash on I-74 near Morton is identified
TAZEWELL COUNTY Ill. - The man killed in the Wednesday night crash along I-74 in Tazewell County -- has been identified. Tazewell County Coroner, Charles Hanley, says preliminary findings of an autops...
Oct 18, 2024
OSF Life Flight marks 40 years of service
PEORIA Ill. - OSF Healthcare celebrated 40-years of "Life Flight" services Friday. Life Flight provides critical air-medical transport service throughout Illinois -- and OSF now has helicopters based ...
Oct 18, 2024 (OSF Life Flight team with The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, courtesy of OSF Healthcare)
More evidence released in Trump election subversion case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday made public more evidence collected by prosecutors in the federal criminal case accusing former President Donald Trump of attempting to overturn his defea...
Oct 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Israel sends more troops into north Gaza, deepens raid
CAIRO (Reuters) -The Israeli military said on Friday it sent another army unit to support its forces operating in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps, where residents said tank...
Oct 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Palestinians walk past destroyed houses, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip February 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa/File Photo
Riggenbach announces reelection bid for fifth term on Peoria City Council
PEORIA Ill. - Third District Councilman, Tim Riggenbach, announces a bid for reelection. Riggenbach is seeking a fifth term, and shares with 25News, his top priorities include strengthening public saf...
Oct 18, 2024 Courtesy of the City of Peoria
Two men arrested for Thursday night shooting in Peoria
PEORIA Ill. - Two men have been arrested in connection to a shooting Thursday night. Peoria Police were dispatched to the 600 block of Northeast Prosperity Street, just before 8pm, on a report of two ...
Oct 18, 2024 29-year-old Donquarius Brisbon and 43-year-old Elon Coleman.
(Peoria Co. Sheriff's Office)
4 decades after rising to power and nearly 4 years since his fall, former Speaker Madigan goes to trial
CHICAGO - On a late October day in Springfield nearly five years ago, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan exited a private caucus meeting and strode up to a group of waiting reporters in one o...
Oct 18, 2024 MADIGAN GAGGLE (INSET PHOTO): In a rare media availability with reporters in October 2019, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan denies being a target of a growing federal investigation into corruption. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
Risk of field fires increases this harvest with windy and dry conditions
CENTRAL ILLINOIS - Farmers are being encouraged to take steps to avoid field fires during dry and breezy weather conditions. There is an elevated fire risk for Central Illinois due to an abnormally dr...
Oct 18, 2024 Chalabala / Depositphotos.com
Netanyahu promises more war, dashing peace hopes after Hamas leader killed
JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's promises to press on with Israel's wars in Gaza and Lebanon dashed hopes on Friday that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might h...
Oct 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar looks on as Palestinian Hamas supporters take part in an anti-Israel rally over tension in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, in Gaza City October 1, 2022. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
