Category Archives: Local News
Man found deceased in East Peoria shopping center parking lot
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A 72-year-old man was found dead in a vehicle in an East Peoria shopping center parking lot Wednesday morning. East Peoria Police says officers responded just after 10:15 A.M. to t...
Aug 6, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Pekin woman sentenced after guilty plea in murder-for-hire plot
PEKIN, Ill. - A Pekin woman accused of attempting to hire someone to murder her husband has been sentenced to prison. Court documents show that 48-year-old Allison Salinas has been sentenced to 16 yea...
Aug 6, 2025 Tazewell County Courthouse (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Money put forward to fund repairs for Riverview Plaza building
PEORIA, Ill. - Work can now move forward to repair the Riverview Plaza building in downtown Peoria. City Manager Patrick Urich says MJ Illinois's owner has placed $500,000 in an escrow account. The mo...
Aug 6, 2025 A moving truck is seen outside the Riverview Plaza building on March 11th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump-led Texas redistricting gambit ignites national arms race to control Congress
(Reuters) -The escalating political fight over the Texas congressional map is spreading across other states across the country, triggering an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting arms race with the ...
Aug 6, 2025 Illinois Governor JB Pritzker attends a news conference held by Texas Democratic lawmakers after leaving the state to deny Republicans the quorum needed to redraw Texas' 38 congressional districts, in Aurora, Illinois, U.S. August 5, 2025. REUTERS/Tom Krawczyk
UPDATE: 41-year-old male identified as victim in fatal officer-involved shooting in Peoria's East Bluff
UPDATED 4:35 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The identity of the victim in a fatal officer involved shooting Tuesday in Peoria's East Bluff has been identified. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says an autopsy...
Aug 6, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Two central Illinois small businesses receive state honor
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peoria-area small businesses have joined a club of being some of the best in the state of Illinois. Tres Rojas Winery of Washington and Sarah Beth's Homemade Dips of Hanna City rece...
Aug 5, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man indicted for role in mass shooting turned fatal in South Peoria in 2023
PEORIA, Ill. - The man accused in a fatal shooting two years ago in South Peoria has been indicted by a grand jury. 22-year-old Jyvonnie Williams was indicted on Tuesday of one count of First Degree M...
Aug 5, 2025 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Longtime ComEd lobbyist gets 1 year in prison for role in Madigan bribery scheme
Article Summary Jay Doherty, a longtime lobbyist and consultant for electric utility Commonwealth Edison, has been sentenced to a year in prison for his role in a bribery scheme aimed at former Illino...
Aug 5, 2025 Former Commonwealth Edison lobbyist and City Club of Chicago director Jay Doherty leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Aug. 5, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Chillicothe man arrested on alleged child porn distibution charges
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - A Chillicothe man has been arrested after allegedly uploading child pornography. Police Chief Jeremy Cooper says 27-year-old Kewan Hudson was arrested Tuesday after a search warran...
Aug 5, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Morton joins other central Illinois cities to implement local grocery tax
MORTON, Ill. - Morton is joining other communities across central Illinois in implementing a grocery tax. The village Board of Trustees approved the 1% local tax at Monday night's meeting. There was n...
Aug 5, 2025
