Category Archives: Local News
Open enrollment is underway at Quest
PEORIA, Ill. -- Once a year, Quest Charter Academy in Peoria accepts applications for enrollment for the following school year. The application window typically begins on February 1 and runs for six w...
Feb 05, 2020
Multiple companies respond to Dunlap fire
DUNLAP, Ill. -- Dunlap firefighters Firefighters were called around 6:45 p.m. Tuesday to the 2000 block of W. Blackberry Lane on reports of a garage fire. Within minutes, flames spread from the attach...
Feb 05, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump boasts of economic gains on eve of impeachment verdict
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday night on the eve of his likely impeachment acquittal and in the aftermath of the chaotic first votes of the ra...
Feb 04, 2020 AP Photo/Alex Brandon
EP Fire Department looking to add new member; Traveling Vietnam Wall coming this year
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- The East Peoria City Council agreed Tuesday night to temporarily increase the Fire Department staff by one. Commissioner Seth Mingus said the increase is because one East Peoria F...
Feb 04, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
On eve of impeachment verdict, Trump tees up State of Union
(AP) - President Donald Trump will deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night on the eve of his likely impeachment acquittal and in the aftermath of the chaotic first votes of the race to re...
Feb 04, 2020 MWC-Fox News
Vote early starting Thursday
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- With confusion abounding in Iowa, Primary Election season got underway Monday in the United States, and Illinoisans can cast their votes as early as Thursday. Illinois's official ...
Feb 04, 2020 Midwest Communications/Flickr
Collins: get ready for a slippery drive home
PEORIA, Ill. -- This time, it won't be weekend plans that are altered by the weather. News partner 25 News Chief Meteorologist says a mid-week winter blast will wreak havoc upon commute to and from wo...
Feb 04, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley (file)
Buttigieg, Sanders ahead in early Iowa results
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Initial data released by the Iowa Democratic Party shows Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders ahead in the state's first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses. The tally of state de...
Feb 04, 2020 (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Mayor Jim Ardis delivered this year's State of the City Address
PEORIA, Ill. -- Mayor Jim Ardis discussed the list of growing organizations that are changing the narrative in the Peoria area during this year's State of the City Address. "The current buzz that's ha...
Feb 04, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Arrests made in Peoria carjacking
PEORIA, Ill. -- A 19-year-old male and a juvenile were taken into custody Monday night for allegedly taking a vehicle at gunpoint at a Peoria gas station. At approximately 9:04 p.m., Peoria Police res...
Feb 04, 2020 Peoria County Jail
