Category Archives: Local News
Ground Breaking Ceremony For Upcoming Fire Crash And Rescue Station
The Peoria-based Air National Guard unit hosted a ground-breaking ceremony Monday for the new Fire Crash and Rescue Station coming in July 2020. The new station will create a better living environment...
Jul 22, 2019
Peoria Area Home Sales Down In Second Quarter
The number of closed home sales were down during the second quarter of this year compared to 2018 and the inventory of homes is the lowest since 2013. The second quarter home sales numbers were releas...
Jul 22, 2019 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy, File
Peoria woman dies of cold exposure
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called Tuesday morning to a home in the 500 block of E. Melbourne Avenue on a welfare check. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said a neighbor called police after ...
Jul 22, 2019
Opening Of Bradley Business Center Delayed
The opening of a new facility at Bradley University has been delayed. The university had planned to welcome students to the Bradley Business and Engineering Convergence Center at the beginning of the ...
Jul 22, 2019
House Republicans Vow Tough Questions Of Mueller At Hearing
(AP) - House Republicans are pledging tough questioning of special counsel Robert Mueller when he testifies before Congress this week as Democrats plan to air evidence of wrongdoing by President Donal...
Jul 22, 2019
Candle To Blame For Peoria Garage Fire
Peoria Firefighters responded to a fire at 1031 Northeast Glen Oak Sunday night, finding smoke coming from the roof of a two story detached garage. Fire Battalion Chief Rick Morgan said the fire was o...
Jul 22, 2019
Iran Says 17 CIA Spies Arrested, Some Sentenced
(AP) - Iran says it has arrested 17 Iranian nationals allegedly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on the country's nuclear and military sites, and some of them have already been sent...
Jul 22, 2019
Crews Battle Fire At Koinonia House
Peoria firefighters were called to the scene of an apartment fire at the Koinonia House, located at 1509 N. Knoxville, Sunday evening. Heavy smoke could be seen coming from the 129-year-old building n...
Jul 22, 2019
Fallen State Trooper Honored On Wall
(AP) - An Illinois trooper killed in the line of duty has been honored on a memorial wall in the Illinois State Police Memorial Park. The State Journal-Register reports that friends, family members an...
Jul 22, 2019
Search Teams Recover Body From Rice Lake
A body was recovered from Rice Lake in Fulton County Sunday morning. The Copperas Creek Fire Department and Dive Team were called to lake off U.S. Route 24 Saturday afternoon on reports of someone in ...
Jul 21, 2019
