Category Archives: Local News
Peoria's 2025 budget passed without property tax break or grocery tax
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria residents will not get a property tax break in the budget passed by the city council Tuesday night. The $288 million FY 2025 budget does include over $43 million to cover employe...
Nov 13, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Pekin approves new grocery tax to replace state grocery tax
PEKIN, Ill. - The city of Pekin is using a new grocery tax in the hopes of making up a state tax that will be going away. By a 4-3 vote at Tuesday night's city council meeting, councilmen approved the...
Nov 12, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Limestone Community High School employee charged after alleged sexual contact with minor
PEORIA, Ill. - An employee of Limestone Community High School has been charged after he allegedly had sexual contact with a minor. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 37-year-old Ronnie B...
Nov 12, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Amid flurry of gun ban challenges, federal appeals court considers Cook County assault weapon law
CHICAGO - A panel of federal judges is weighing whether to overturn a Cook County ban on semiautomatic weapons in a case that could upend other local bans and call into question the statewide prohibit...
Nov 12, 2024 A federal appeals court is considering a challenge to a Cook County assault weapons ban that regulates guns like the one pictured. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
WTVP speaks out on "reckless political stunt" on its East Peoria tower
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria public television station WTVP is speaking out against what it calls a "reckless political stunt" on its broadcast tower. President and CEO Jenn Gordon says a pro-Donald Trump fl...
Nov 12, 2024 (25 News)
Two men arrested for eluding Peoria Police Saturday morning
UPDATED 5:15P.M. PEORIA Ill. - The man charged with Unlawful use of a weapon, after running from Peoria Police Saturday morning -- will remain in jail until his trial. According to Peoria County State...
Nov 12, 2024
UPDATE: Victim in murder-suicide Sunday night in Peoria identified
UPDATED 2:31 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The female victim in a murder-suicide Sunday night in Peoria has been identified. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says 48-year-old Johnnetta Smith was pronounced d...
Nov 12, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Plans for former Quest buildings discussed at PPS Board meeting
PEORIA, Ill. - Plans to repurpose the two Quest Charter Academy buildings were presented to the Peoria Public Schools Board Monday night. Some teachers, parents, and school administrators want to tran...
Nov 12, 2024 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Fire damages East Peoria home Monday night
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Fire broke out in a single-family home in East Peoria Monday night. Assistant Fire Chief Ronnie Marmitt says crews were called to Meadow Avenue just before 11:15 p.m. The fire was ...
Nov 12, 2024 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
How Illinois will decide on spending $40M opioid settlement with Kroger
CHICAGO - Illinois will receive a $40 million share of a $1.4 billion bipartisan national settlement with Kroger over the grocery chain's role in the opioid crisis, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Rao...
Nov 11, 2024 Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is pictured at the Democratic National Convention. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
