Category Archives: Top Stories
Mackinaw woman identified in Monday night fatal crash
The accident remains under investigation. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File) By Blake HaasTAZEWELL – A Mackinaw woman died in a car crash late Monday night in East Peoria.According to a release, a moto...
Mar 29, 2022
Gov. Pritzker: “Across the state, crime is up”
Gov. Pritzker (left) spoke during a press conference on Tuesday. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – If you are on a ballot in 2022, you are talking about crime."Across the st...
Mar 29, 2022
ISU union workers authorize bargaining to call a strike
A majority of members of AFSCME 1110 authorize a strike Monday.(25 News/Heart of Illinois ABC)By Heart of Illinois ABCUniversity administrators released a statement after American State County and Mun...
Mar 28, 2022
State Sen. calls state opioid problem “a mirror on a crisis”
Opioid overdoses went up by a third from 2019 to 2020. (Photo courtesy: Pixabay) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – The latest salvo in the opioid crisis is a bill to immunize people from prosecution wh...
Mar 25, 2022
Redbird’s, Pedon adds Walter Offutt as assistant coach
Prior to his time in Toledo, Offutt spent a season at Ball State as the Director of Basketball Operations in 2016-2017, before beginning his coaching career at Chattanooga later in 2017 as an assistan...
Mar 25, 2022
Simon Wiesenthal Center issues annual report tracking anti-Semitism
At a statehouse news conference Thursday, Rabbi Abraham Cooper quoted Wiesenthal. (Photo courtesy: Dave Dahl/WJBC) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – If hate has no home here, it certainly is comfortabl...
Mar 24, 2022
Local food trucks raises prices due to high gas, food prices
Williams said he's never had to change his prices since starting the food truck until now. (Photo courtesy: HOI/ABC) By Heart of Illinois ABC BLOOMINGTON – Higher gas prices are taking a bite ou...
Mar 24, 2022
Illinois Democrats hold victory lap press conference after passing unemployment fund bill
Gov. Pritzker spoke Thursday afternoon. (Photo courtesy: Mike Miletich/HOI) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Democrats congratulated themselves Thursday afternoon on the bill that replenishes...
Mar 24, 2022
Local nonprofit CEO reports a ‘housing crisis’ for those with low income in McLean County
Matt Burgess, CEO of Home Sweet Home Ministries spoke with WJBC’s Todd Wineburner. (Photo courtesy: HOI/ABC) By Blake HaasBLOOMINGTON – According to a CEO of a local nonprofit, the twin ci...
Mar 24, 2022
Bloomington Telecommunicator honored for helping a caller deliver a baby
Bloomington Police Chief Jamal Simington (left) awarded Bloomington Telecommunicator Sarah (middle) with a certificate and a Stork pin. (Photo courtesy: City of Bloomington) By Blake HaasBLOOMINGTON &...
Mar 24, 2022
