Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria Heights to receive federal grant for new water line
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Officials in Peoria Heights are celebrating 17th District Congressman Eric Sorensen's announcement earlier this week of nearly $1 million in federal funding coming to them to bu...
Mar 15, 2024 (Village of Peoria Heights)
Trump hush money trial delayed until April, judge rules
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump's criminal trial stemming from a 2016 hush money payment to a porn star will start in April, after a 30-day delay granted by the judge after the former U.S. president ...
Mar 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Forum River Center in Rome, Georgia, U.S. March 9, 2024. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer/File Photo
Match Day pairs medicine students in Peoria with residency programs for next few years
PEORIA, Ill. - Students at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria learned on Friday where the next big step in their journeys to be doctors would take them. As part of a Match Day cerem...
Mar 15, 2024 University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria students wait in line to receive envelopes with information on their residency programs at a Match Day ceremony in Peoria, on March 15th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Vandalism, alleged hate crime reported on Bradley University campus
UPDATED 4:46 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A hate crime and vandalism have been alleged to have occurred on the campus of Bradley University. According to a campus safety alert Friday morning, the university sa...
Mar 15, 2024 A surveillance photo of a potential suspect in a reported hate crime on the Bradley University campus. (Bradley University via 25 News)
Two people die in Thursday evening single vehicle crash in Woodford County
GERMANTOWN HILLS, Ill. - Two people died after a single-vehicle crash near Germantown Hills in Woodford County Thursday evening. Woodford County Coroner Tim Ruestman says the crash occurred just befor...
Mar 15, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Trump judge in Georgia lets prosecutor stay case, deputy steps down
UPDATED 3:01 P.M. (Reuters) -The Georgia judge overseeing Donald Trump's trial on charges of trying to overturn his election defeat said on Friday that lead prosecutor Fani Willis can remain on the ca...
Mar 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Special prosecutor Nathan Wade sits in court Friday, March 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. The hearing is to determine whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the case because of a relationship with Nathan Wade, special prosecutor she hired in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump. Alex Slitz/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Owners of Par-A-Dice in East Peoria discuss renovation plans with state gaming board
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The Par-A-Dice Casino in East Peoria will continue to operate, but could also soon receive a facelift. At Thursday's Illinois Gaming Board meeting, the board approved a four-year r...
Mar 15, 2024 (25 News)
Peoria residents escape duplex fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a duplex on W. Sheridan Court early Friday morning, finding a garage on fire. Acting Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Tyson Pokarney says residents were al...
Mar 15, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Georgia Trump judge allows prosecutor to remain on case
UPDATED: 8:34 A.M. (Reuters) -The Georgia judge overseeing Donald Trump's trial on charges of trying to overturn his election defeat in the state said that lead prosecutor Fani Willis can remain on th...
Mar 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Forum River Center in Rome, Georgia, U.S. March 9, 2024. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer/File Photo
Exclusive-Hamas presents ceasefire proposal detailing exchange of hostages, prisoners
DUBAI (Reuters) -Hamas has presented a Gaza ceasefire proposal to mediators and the U.S. that includes the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for freedom for Palestinian prisoners, 100 of whom ar...
Mar 15, 2024 Smoke rises during an Israeli ground operation in Khan Younis March 14, 2024. REUTERS/Bassam Masoud
