Category Archives: Local News
UPDATE: Victims from Sunday afternoon homicide/suicide in Peoria identified
UPDATED 4:24 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The identities of the two people who died in a homicide and suicide from Sunday afternoon have been identified. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says 47-year-old Vi...
Sep 16, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Center for Prevention of Abuse receives over $534,000 in new grants
PEORIA, Ill. - The Center for Prevention of Abuse has been awarded two new grants for its prevention education programs. The Gilmore Foundation, which supports youth development, human services, abuse...
Sep 16, 2024 (Center for Prevention of Abuse Facebook)
One person injured after crash involved Peoria fire truck
PEORIA, Ill. - One person was injured after a crash involving a Peoria fire truck Monday morning. Fire Chief Shawn Sollberger says the crash occurred in the area of Western and Martin Luther King Driv...
Sep 16, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
GasBuddy: Peoria area gas prices still dropping as we head into fall
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have dropped just over nine cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.48 on Monday, according to GasBuddy. Current local prices are 23 cents lower than ...
Sep 16, 2024 Orin Zebest / CC
Sunday morning shooting leaves two injured in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Police were called late Sunday morning to the 500 block of N. Shipman in Peoria on reports of a shooting. Peoria Police say when officers arrived just after 10:15 a.m., they found a man...
Sep 16, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Alleged carjacking leads to two crashes, arrests of two juveniles
UPDATE - PEORIA, Ill. - Two juveniles are in custody in connection with an alleged carjacking in Peoria that resulted in two crashes. Peoria police say officers responded to the 5300 block of W. Hayme...
Sep 15, 2024 Photo: Peoria Area Scanner & Dashcam
Road projects beginning or changing this week
PEORIA, Ill. - A couple of road construction projects will affect area motorists. Beginning Monday, traffic patterns will change on Pioneer Parkway between Harker Drive and Sommer Street. Eastbound tr...
Sep 15, 2024 Photo: IDOT Traffic Camera
In bribery trial, AT&T lobbyists detail contentious meeting with Madigan ally
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - On an afternoon in late April 2017, recently retired state Rep. Eddie Acevedo was called to a meeting in the state Capitol in Springfield. The 20-year veteran lawmake...
Sep 14, 2024 The Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse is pictured in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Emergency response team arrests man after domestic violence attack in Pekin
PEKIN Ill. - A Pekin man is under arrest after police say he was attacking members of his own family, Friday afternoon. 25-News reports -- Clement Kobischka was arrested with the help of the Central I...
Sep 13, 2024
A year after end of cash bail, early research shows impact less than many hoped or feared
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - One year after Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate the use of cash bail, the impact on the state's criminal justice system appears to...
Sep 13, 2024 Loyola University of Chicago Center for Criminal Justice Co-Director David Olson speaks at an event in Springfield about the one-year anniversary of the Pretrial Fairness Act. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
