Category Archives: Local News
Comcast drops Bally Sports regional sports networks as agreement not reached
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. - Sports fans looking to watch their favorite teams lost an option to do so overnight Tuesday. In a social media post, Diamond Sports Group announced that Comcast has rejected a pr...
TJ Carson May 01, 2024 An on-screen message replaces Bally Sports Midwest on Comcast cable lineups in the Peoria-area. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Area students perform in downtown Peoria during GMB Arts in Education Spring Celebration
PEORIA, Ill. - This time each year, you start seeing a lot of school buses in downtown Peoria...and music coming from the Peoria County Courthouse Plaza. Thousands of students are again performing thi...
Julia Bradley May 01, 2024 Students singing at the Peoria County Courthouse Plaza with the Gerald M. Brookhart Arts in Education Spring Celebration.
(GMB Arts in Education Spring Celebration Facebook page)
Wednesday morning fire damages home in East Peoria
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Two animals and a resident were able to escape a house fire in East Peoria Wednesday morning without injury. East Peoria Fire says crews were called to the two-story home just afte...
TJ Carson May 01, 2024 Midwest Communications
Peoria home demolished after fire Tuesday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a home on Tonti Circle on reports of a fire Tuesday night. Fire Battalion Chief Larry Carter says when crews arrived around 8:20 p.m., they found heav...
Julia Bradley May 01, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Coroner identifies 18-year-old shot and killed in Peoria
UPDATE 9:19 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the young man who was shot and killed Tuesday night in Peoria. Harwood says the victim is 18-year-old MikeQuese Taylo...
Julia Bradley May 01, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Rivermen announce plans for parade and celebration for President's Cup champions
PEORIA, Ill. - Plans for a party for the Southern Professional Hockey League champions Peoria Rivermen have been made. A championship parade will take place Friday at 5:30 P.M. The parade will start a...
TJ Carson Apr 30, 2024 (Peoria Rivermen)
Two injured after crash Tuesday morning in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Two people were sent to the hospital after a two-vehicle crash Tuesday morning in Peoria. Peoria Fire says the crash happened in the area of University and War Memorial just before 8:00...
TJ Carson Apr 30, 2024 Midwest Communications
Election officials to weigh whether Darren Bailey and GOP operative Dan Proft illegally coordinated
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A year and a half after Republican Darren Bailey lost his campaign to challenge Gov. JB Pritzker, state election officials are weighing whether he illegally col...
TJ Carson Apr 30, 2024 Conservative political operative Dan Proft (left) listens to testimony from former Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey (right) in a hearing over allegations that the two illegally coordinated messaging campaigns in 2022. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Peoria man who died in traffic crash in Iowa Sunday night identified
SCOTT COUNTY, Iowa - The Peoria man who was the victim in a fatal accident in Iowa Sunday night has been identified. The Scott County Sheriff's Office says Eric Fraelle, 52, was pronounced dead at the...
TJ Carson Apr 30, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Driver hospitalized after crash on I-74 Monday night. Here's what we know
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. - On Monday night, the Woodford County Sheriff's Office received multiple calls of a car going off I-74 and into a lake. Sheriff Matthew Smith said an eastbound vehicle on I-74 a...
Julia Bradley Apr 30, 2024 (Midwest Communications)