Category Archives: Local News
Peoria area's unemployment rate drops slightly in October
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Unemployment rates were down in all of Illinois' 14 metro areas last month. Illinois Department of Employment Security Spokesperson Rebecca Cisco said significant improvements wer...
Nov 22, 2019 (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
5th vaping-related death reported in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A fifth Illinois resident has died after being hospitalized with a vaping-related lung injury. The Illinois Department of Public Health on Thursday did not release any informa...
Nov 22, 2019 In this photo made on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, a woman uses her vaping device in Harmony, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Festival of Lights to compete in The Great Christmas Light Fight
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- An ultimate battle of Christmas lights. ABC's The Great Christmas Light Fight showcases epic displays of Christmas lights in a competition, and the East Peoria Festival of Lights ...
Nov 21, 2019 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
A stabbing in south Peoria leads to an arrest
PEORIA, Ill. -- An arrest was made for a south Peoria stabbing. Peoria Police were called to a reported stabbing in the 1000 block of south Shelley around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. Officers located a woman...
Nov 21, 2019 MWC-Bars Grapic-Flicker
New Peoria Stadium sign coming soon
PEORIA, Ill. -- The updates to the vintage Peoria Public Schools Stadium sign will be finished in December. David Meyers, Director of Buildings and Grounds, said the new base of the sign has been atta...
Nov 21, 2019 Kristina Leahy/WMBD
Peoria teen arrested for stabbing Wednesday night
PEORIA,Ill. -- Peoria Police were called around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday to the 600 block of RB Garrett on reports of a stabbing. Officers located a woman who had been stabbed in the arm. Her injuries were...
Nov 21, 2019 Peoria County Jail
Children's Home needs donations for kids' wish lists
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Children's Home Association of Illinois has been helping kids since 1866. Children's Home CEO Matt George told WMBD's Greg and Dan that 1,700 children walk through their agency doo...
Nov 21, 2019 Children's Home Association of Illinois
Arrest made in Peoria hit-and-run
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Police Department has made an arrest stemming from an October hit-and-run that killed a pedestrian. 20-year-old Junior A. Betancourt-Barrera has been taken into custody for ...
Nov 21, 2019
Emergency action eliminates school isolation rooms
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois State Board of Education has taken emergency action to limit the use of "isolation rooms" at schools. Recent reports said thousands of students have been placed into ...
Nov 21, 2019 MWC (file)
Hill slams 'fictional narrative' about Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former National Security Council aide will tell the House impeachment hearing that one of the central Republican talking points - that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. election ...
Nov 21, 2019 Former White House national security aide Fiona Hill arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
