Category Archives: Local News
State law requires gratuities to be paid to employees
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-- Food service employees in the state of Illinois will keep more tips earned. New legislation has been signed by Governor JB Pritzker that clarifies an existing state law makes it cr...
Feb 12, 2020 Money-Flicker photo credit
Collins: first comes snow, then comes frigidity
PEORIA, Ill. -- The latest winter blast has been exactly what experts expected. Don't expect that to change, for better or for worse, said news partner 25 News Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins. "As a...
Feb 12, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local history connecting to Lincoln on display in Pekin
PEKIN, Ill. -- A historical document that connects Abraham Lincoln to central Illinois is on display at the Tazewell County Clerks Office in Pekin. The document is a mortgage that was recorded in 1844...
Feb 12, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Armed robbery suspect nabbed
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man accused of robbing a citizen at gunpoint during a Facebook Marketplace dealing was taken Wednesday into Peoria Police custody. Police have arrested 19-year-old Damarius Billups-W...
Feb 12, 2020 Peoria Police Department
Collins: Snow returns with bitter cold temperatures into the weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- Several inches of snow is expected to fall in the Peoria area through Thursday. News partner 25 News Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins forecasts rain Wednesday morning followed by snow...
Feb 12, 2020 Midwest Communications
Drug bust nets nearly 50 pounds of pot
NORWOOD, Ill. -- Agents with the Peoria Multi-County Narcotics Enforcement Group arrested a man in Norwood after seizing approximately 47 pounds of processed cannabis and more than $9,000 in cash. PME...
Feb 12, 2020 Peoria County Jail
House suffers damage from Peoria Heights fire
Multiple fire companies responded Tuesday night to a working house fire at 903 East Paris in Peoria Heights. The mutual aid calls went out around 7:45 p.m. to West Peoria, Limestone, Chillicothe and P...
Feb 12, 2020 (Courtesy of IDOT)
Actor Jussie Smollett faces 6 new charges in Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) - Actor Jussie Smollett has been indicted for a second time on charges of lying to police about a racist and anti-gay attack he allegedly staged on himself last year in downtown Chicago. ...
Feb 12, 2020 FILE - In this March 26, 2019, file photo, actor Jussie Smollett talks to the media before leaving Cook County Court after his charges were dropped, in Chicago. The latest twist in the Jussie Smollett saga is the revelation of a possible conflict of interest by the special prosecutor investigating why prosecutors dropped charges accusing the actor of staging a racist, homophobic attack on himself. Dan Webb disclosed this week he once co-hosted a political fundraiser for a figure central to his investigation, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx. A Cook County judge must now decide if bias or the appearance of bias renders Webb's position untenable. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, File)
Sanders wins NH presidential primary
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Bernie Sanders has won New Hampshire's presidential primary election, narrowly edging moderate rival Pete Buttigieg and scoring the first clear victory in the Democratic Party'...
Feb 12, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., with his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders, arrives to speak to supporters at a primary night election rally in Manchester, N.H., Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Peoria City Council approves to support changes at Taft Homes
PEORIA, Ill. - The CEO of the Peoria Housing Authority stood in front of the city council Tuesday night looking for support for developments at Taft Homes. The CEO, Jackie Newman, said the PHA wants s...
Feb 11, 2020
