Category Archives: Local News
Illinois extends driver's license deadlines another 3 months
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has extended expiration dates for driver's licenses another three months. White announced this week that expired licenses need be renew...
Sep 28, 2020 Midwest Communications
NY Times: Trump paid $750 in US income taxes in 2016, 2017
(AP) -- President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report in The New York Times. Trump has fie...
Sep 28, 2020 President Donald Trump speaking during a news conference at the White House, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Man found shot at local liquor store
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria County Sheriff's deputies were called just before 12:30 a.m. Monday to Farmington Liquors, located at 2100 W. Farmington Road in West Peoria, on reports of a shooting victim. Pe...
Sep 28, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Update: Victims of Peoria single-vehicle crash identified
UPDATE: Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the four people killed in the accident. The deceased are: Jazzman Burns, 22, of Peoria; Diamond Williams, 18, of Peoria; Quanylan Thomas, 19,...
Sep 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
Saturday night Peoria shooting kills man
***UPDATE 9/28*** Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the victim as 28-year-old Donald Allen of Peoria. Harwood said Allen sustained a single gunshot wound to his head. He was officiall...
Sep 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump picks conservative Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation a...
Sep 26, 2020 AP Photo/Alex Brandon
Fighting fire with ire: public safety cuts spark second protest
PEORIA, Ill. -- For the second time in as many weeks, protesters on Saturday took to the corner of Allen and Wilhelm Rds. to voice displeasure over the scheduled decommissioning of Peoria Fire Departm...
Sep 26, 2020 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
Update: Pedestrian killed by motorcycle identified
UPDATE - Early Saturday morning a pedestrian was struck by a motorcycle and killed. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the victim as 49-year-old Allen Hulin, of Peoria. Harwood said Hu...
Sep 26, 2020
Trump expected to announce conservative Barrett for court
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is expected to announce Saturday that he is nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court as he aims to put a historic conservative stamp on the high...
Sep 25, 2020 Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP
City of Peoria in discussions with Firefighter's Union to only cut one engine
PEORIA, Ill. -- The decision by the Peoria City Council to decommission two fire engines, Station 4 on the southside and Station 20 on the northside, has been a hotly-contested one since the decision ...
Sep 25, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
