Category Archives: Local News
Willie Nelson coming to Peoria Civic Center -- on 4/20
PEORIA, Ill. - Willie Nelson is going back "on the road again." The country music superstar is going on tour, and is coming to the Peoria Civic Center on April 20th. Yes, 4/20. Tickets for the show, t...
Dec 13, 2021 Photo from Peoria Civic Center
Washington mayor shares perspective on the weekend's deadly tornadoes
PEORIA, Ill. -- It will be months before places like Mayfield, Kentucky and Edwardsville, Illinois recover from the weekend's deadly tornadoes. Six people died Friday night at an Amazon facility in Ed...
Dec 13, 2021 1470/100.3 WMBD- Julia Bradley
PPD responds to armed carjacking Monday morning
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called around 6:30 a.m. Monday to the Westlake Shopping Center on reports of an armed carjacking. Peoria Public Information Officer Semone Roth with the PPD says a m...
Dec 13, 2021 MWC-PPD
Arson cause of overnight fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Emergency crews responded around 1:45 a.m. Monday to reports of a structure fire in the 1000 block of E. Behrends Avenue in Peoria. Firefighters found a detached single car garage engu...
Dec 13, 2021 Midwest Communications
Driver rescued from apparent hit-and-run accident
PEORIA, Ill. - One driver was trapped inside one of two vehicles involved in a Peoria accident. Peoria firefighters responded to a call of a two-vehicle crash at 8:26 p.m. Saturday in the 700 block of...
Dec 12, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Mason City woman injured, one man dead, after Sangamon County crash
CANTRALL, Ill. - A Sangamon County crash claimed the life of a Greenview, Illinois man and injured a Mason City woman. The crash occurred around 5:30 p.m. Friday on Route 29 south of Cantrall, about 1...
Dec 12, 2021 Midwest Communications
High wind gusts, some damage reported in Tazewell County following Friday storms
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - The severe weather system claiming lives in Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, and in Edwardsville, Illinois didn't cause issues that severe in this area, but they left their mark....
Dec 11, 2021 Midwest Communications
Pritzker signs legislation providing funding to statewide anti-gun violence initiatives
CHICAGO, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker has signed lesiglation that would help local communities statewide possibly get to the root of the gun violence plaguing them. The governor signed what was describ...
Dec 11, 2021 Tony Webster / CC
Visitation for Peoria County Jail employee who died from COVID-19 complications
ELMWOOD, Ill. - The law enforcement community showed up in force last (Friday) night for a Peoria County Jail employee who lost his life due to COVID-19. Cameron Passie -- a native of Elmwood -- died ...
Dec 11, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Sheriffs Department
Man pleads guilty to causing fatal crash, gets prison time
PEKIN, Ill. - A Tazewell County man is going to prison for four years after pleading guilty to an accident that claimed the life of a Pekin Woman. Court records indicate Jesse St. Clair, 45, pleaded g...
Dec 11, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Tazewell County Jail
