Category Archives: Top Stories
Three teens arrested after 'accidental' shooting Friday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Three teenagers were arrested after Peoria Police say one of them accidentally fired a gun over the weekend. Police say it happened around 9:00 Friday night on West Warwick near Big Hol...
Oct 02, 2023 Midwest Communications
Man accused of firing gun, running from police
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is jailed after he allegedly opened fire early Saturday morning, then tried to run from police. Peoria Police say the shooting happened before 5:30 Saturday on West John H....
Oct 02, 2023 Etrrec Walker (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Bicyclist dead after being hit by truck -Police
PEORIA, Ill. - One person is dead after an accident in South Peoria Sunday evening. Peoria Police say it happened around 6:30 p.m. near Western and Garden. A truck is believed to have hit a bicyclist ...
Oct 02, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Peoria teen, one of six shot in late-August incident, dies
PEORIA, Ill. - One of six people injured in what was considered a mass shooting in Peoria more than a month ago has died. That's according to Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood, who says Antonio Walk...
Oct 02, 2023 A large police presence late Aug. 30, 2023 outside OSF St. Francis Medical Center where six shooting victims were hospitalized. (25 News)
McDonald's, Wendy's defeat lawsuit over size of burgers
NEW YORK (Reuters) - McDonald's and Wendy's have defeated a lawsuit accusing them of deceiving hungry diners by exaggerating the size of their burgers. In a decision on Saturday, U.S. District Judge H...
Oct 02, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A Wendy's Co restaurant is pictured in Monrovia, California November 4, 2015. Burger chain Wendy's Co reported better-than-expected quarterly same-restaurant sales, pulling in customers in North America with an expanded menu and refurbished restaurants. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo
GM furloughs another 160 workers due to UAW strike
(Reuters) -General Motors said Monday it was indefinitely laying off about 160 workers at plants in Indiana and Ohio because of the impact on some of the facilities of the United Auto Workers strike t...
Oct 02, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Striking United Auto Workers (UAW) members from the General Motors Lansing Delta Plant picket in Delta Township, Michigan U.S. September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
Small drop in prices seen at the pump in the Peoria area. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices are trickling down in central Illinois. GasBuddy reports the average price of a gallon of unleaded in the Peoria-area is $3.72/g, a 2.2 cent drop in the past week. The averag...
Oct 02, 2023 Mike Mozart / CC
Curtain comes up on new term for conservative US Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court began its new term on Monday with arguments in a criminal sentencing case, setting out on a nine-month legal journey that will test how far its 6-3 conserv...
Oct 02, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen in Washington, U.S., August 31, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Wurm /File Photo
UPDATE: US Rep Matt Gaetz will try to unseat House Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week
UPDATED 12:42 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy faced a threat to his leadership on Monday as a right-wing fellow Republican, Representative Matt Gaetz, s...
Oct 02, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) runs up the East Capitol stairs as the deadline to avert a partial government shutdown approaches on Capitol Hill?in?Washington, U.S., September 30, 2023. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File photo
Fallen East Peoria Firefighters remembered Sunday
PEORIA, Ill. - (25 News) - Though their deaths were decades ago, the East Peoria Fire Department on Sunday honored the memory of four who died in the line of duty, the most recent of which was in 1980...
Oct 02, 2023 (25 News--from East Peoria Firefighers Memorial Service Sunday, October 1, 2023.)
