Category Archives: Local News
Budget pressures could impact K-12 funding
SPRINGFIELD - Public schools in Illinois have enjoyed several consecutive years of substantial increases in state funding, thanks largely to steady growth in state revenues and a new funding formula t...
Dec 18, 2024 Ben Varner, chief economist for the legislative Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, along with COGFA revenue manager Eric Noggle and executive director Clayton Klenke, brief the Illinois State Board of Education on the state’s budget outlook during a board meeting Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Teenager who fired three shots into victim's head, last summer, found guilty of murder
PEORIA Ill. - The teenager who shot and killed 17-year-old Dahvie Brown-Bey last summer -- has been charged guilty of murder. According to the Peoria County State's Attorney's Office, a Peoria County ...
Dec 18, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
New, safer Nofsinger intersection opens in Washington
WASHINGTON, Ill. - A project that brings much needed safety improvements to one of Washington's busiest roads is now complete. City leaders on Wednesday cut the ribbon on the completed Nofsinger/Dalla...
Dec 18, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
New McClugage Bridge to have soft opening on Thursday
PEORIA/EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A new bridge that connects Peoria and East Peoria will partially open Thursday. The Illinois Department of Transportation says traffic patterns will switch overnight on the ...
Dec 18, 2024 (Illinois Department of Transportation)
East Peoria takes final action on new police station, adopts flat property tax levy
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - East Peoria's city council members approved a contract Tuesday night to build a new police station, taking credit for holding the line on property taxes. The council voted unanimou...
Dec 18, 2024 (City of East Peoria/FGM Architects)
Feds set to rest case in Madigan trial; defense prepares to call first witnesses
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Though he wouldn't get a formal diagnosis of dementia until a few years - and one felony plea - later, former state Rep. Eddie Acevedo told FBI agents and government ...
Dec 18, 2024 Former Democratic state Rep. Eddie Acevedo and his attorney Gabrielle Sansonetti exit the Dirksen Federal Courthouse last week after being ordered to testify in ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s corruption trial. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Repeat drug, weapons offender from Peoria receives lengthy sentence
PEORIA, Ill. - What started with a pair of ShotSpotter alerts in the East Bluff last March, has resulted in a lengthy prison sentence for a Peoria man. 43-year-old Terrance Shaw was sentenced to 8 yea...
Dec 18, 2024 (Peoria County Jail)
Former Peoria mayoral candidate indicted on felony charges relating to petition
PEORIA, Ill. - A former Peoria mayoral candidate has been indicted on numerous felony charges relating to his petitions. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 23-year-old Jacob Ryan was ind...
Dec 17, 2024 (25 News/Midwest Communicatons)
Electors cast official votes for president
SPRINGFIELD - Illinois officially awarded its 19 electoral votes Tuesday to Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the unsuccessful Democratic candidates to be the next president an...
Dec 17, 2024 Former U.S. Congressman Bobby Rush, one of Illinois’ presential electors, places his vote for Vice President Kamala Harris as part of the state’s Electoral College vote. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Former Madigan ally contradicts past statements after being ordered to testify
CHICAGO - A top federal prosecutor wasted no time Monday revealing to the jury in ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's trial that the latest witness the government called to the stand wasn't th...
Dec 17, 2024 Former Democratic state Rep. Eddie Acevedo and his attorney Gabrielle Sansonetti exit the Dirksen Federal Courthouse last week after being ordered to testify in ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s corruption trial. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
