Category Archives: Local News
182nd Airlift Wing helps Illinois State Police deal with Winter storm
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria has been playing an important role in trying to make sure roads statewide are safe, and motorists are not stranded, during this winter storm. "We are one of seven winter weather ...
Feb 3, 2022 Courtesy: 182nd Airlift Wing/Facebook
Three ISP troopers hit by other drivers Wednesday
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Three Illinois State Police troopers were hit while assisting other drivers on Wednesday as a snow storm gripped the region. An ISP squad car was struck early Wednesday morning on...
Feb 3, 2022 (Illinois State Police)
ISP identifies suspect in officer-involved shooting in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Illinois State Police have obtained an arrest warrant for Carlos Jones, 43, of Peoria. Jones is wanted for reckless discharge of a firearm stemming from an officer-involved shooting in...
Feb 3, 2022 (Illinois State Police)
UPDATE: Flights resume at Peoria's airport after snowstorm stoppage
UPDATE: 2:21 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. -- Airlines are once again flying at General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport following a brief shut down of flights, presumably due to weather. Peoria airp...
Feb 2, 2022 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
ISP: Jack-knifed semi shuts down Central Illinois interstate
PEORIA, Ill. -- It's unclear how serious any injuries might be, but Illinois State Police say they responded to a jack-knifed semi blocking a major interstate in Central Illinois. It happened late Wed...
Feb 2, 2022 Midwest Communications
City: Don't shovel or plow snow into the road
PEORIA, Ill. - The City of Peoria just wants to make sure that crews -- especially those that are being contracted to plow residential sreets -- can do so safely, and do as much as possible. So, it's ...
Feb 2, 2022 Golfeser
Collins: Maybe a little more snow, but wind biggest problem now
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The National Weather Service says, unofficially, 12 inches of snow fell Tuesday night into Wednesday in Peoria. But that doesn't mean the threat of winter weather is over, for a fe...
Feb 2, 2022 Midwest Communications
Man charged with murder after child death
UPDATED 4:50 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A toddler is Peoria's third homicide death of the year, and an arrest on murder charges has been made. Peoria Police say first responders went to a home in the North V...
Feb 2, 2022 Peoria County Jail
Pritzker talks budget, tax relief, pandemic, health care workers, and more in State of State address
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to create a burden on everyone. So, in his annual State of the State and Budget address Wednesday afterno...
Feb 2, 2022 State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service
Area snowfall totals so far: 6-14 inches
UPDATED 12:28 P.M. LINCOLN, Ill. - Forecasters warned "locally heavier snowfall" totals were possible from the snow storm Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, and they were right. According to the Nat...
Feb 2, 2022 National Weather Service
