Category Archives: Local News
Intense Heat Could Harm Roads
(AP) - Illinois transportation officials are warning drivers throughout the state to watch for road blowouts during the intense heat. Acting Transportation Secretary Omer Osman says the "potential for...
Jul 17, 2019
Prosecutors Drop Case Against Kevin Spacey
(AP) - Prosecutors have dropped a case accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a Massachusetts resort island bar in 2016. The Cape and Islands district attorney said Wednesday that they droppe...
Jul 17, 2019 AP Photo/Steven Senne, File
OSF HealthCare To Merge With Chicago-Area Hospital
Officials at OSF HealthCare have announced exclusive negotiations are underway toward a merger with Evergreen Park-based Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers. The organizations will...
Jul 17, 2019 Supplied photo/OSF HealthCare
Woodring Pleads Not Guilty In Fulton County Deputy's Death
The man accused of fatally shooting a Fulton County deputy appeared in court. Nathan Woodring, 42, of Avon pleaded not guilty to charged of first-degree murder and first-degree murder of a police offi...
Jul 17, 2019 Illinois State Police
East Peoria TV Deer Hunter Pleads Guilty To Poaching
(AP) - An East Peoria man who was a host of a TV show about hunting has pleaded guilty in a poaching investigation. Chris Brackett admits that he killed two deer in Indiana in 2013 and transported an ...
Jul 17, 2019 Midwest Communications, Inc.
Shooting Victim Becomes Peoria's 14th Homicide Of The Year
The Peoria County coroner says a man shot in the face July 6 has died of his injuries. Jaware Cole, 24, of Peoria become the city's 14th homicide victim of the year. Cole died at 9:01 p.m. Tuesday aft...
Jul 17, 2019
A.J. Guyton Hired As PPS Director Of Athletics
A local basketball legend is hired by Peoria Public Schools. Peoria Public Schools has announced that A.J. Guyton, a Peoria High star who went on to play at Indiana University and for the Chicago Bull...
Jul 17, 2019 Peoria Public Schools
PPS Begins Filling School Board Vacancy
Peoria Public Schools is accepting resumes and letters of interest from people willing to fill a District 2 School Board vacancy. Bob Davison-Aviles resigned from the Board Monday saying a new job he ...
Jul 17, 2019 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
Former Street Members Want To Help At-Risk Youth
Two Peoria men who have experience life on the streets have taken notice of recent gun violence in Peoria and want to do something about it. Austin Woods and George Lewis have teamed up with Elite's C...
Jul 17, 2019
Local Goodwill Industries Not Making Job Cuts
Don Johnson, CEO and President of Goodwill Industries of Central Illinois, based in Peoria, says his organization has not eliminated any positions for workers with disabilities. A news story focused o...
Jul 17, 2019
