Category Archives: Local News
UnityPoint Health and TCHD offering free mammograms
PEORIA, Ill. -- There's really no excuse not to get one. UnityPoint Health and the Tazewell County Health Department are teaming up for the 21st year Friday to celebrate National Mammogram Day. Diagno...
Julia Bradley Oct 20, 2022 (UnityPoint Health)
Illinois sees job gains, but unemployment rate remains unchanged
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois' unemployment rate remained unchanged through the month of September, according to the latest data released by the Illinois Department of Employment Security. Utilizing a...
Cooper Banks Oct 20, 2022 Midwest Communications
PPD: Suspect evades traffic stops, injures innocent driver
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police say a suspect evaded officers and then slammed into another vehicle, causing significant injuries to one person late Wednesday. PPD has now released details about the inc...
Cooper Banks Oct 20, 2022 (File-1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol)
Peoria dedicates new Station 4 to the city's first black firefighter
PEORIA, Ill. -- Some refused to eat with him and didn't want to be next to him, but an African American fireman didn't stop serving his city. Decades later, his name will not be forgotten. Station 4 i...
Julia Bradley Oct 20, 2022 (Peoria Fire Department Facebook)
Peoria County launches website to help small businesses get started
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County has officially launched a website that can help small business owners get started -- and, with that, potentially get a startup grant. The website is StartABusinessGP.org -...
Will Stevenson Oct 19, 2022 (Peoria County Government via Facebook)
Man sentenced to 38 years in prison for 2021 murder
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man will go to prison for the lower end of what was possible after being convicted of murder and other charges in connection with a 2021 homicide. Peoria County Court records i...
Will Stevenson Oct 19, 2022
Grand jury files charges in 2021 street racing crash with school bus
UPDATED 2:51 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has filed a host of charges against a Peoria man listed in jail records as homeless, after a street racing incident last year that left thre...
Will Stevenson Oct 19, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail September 2022)
Massive particle accelerator arrives at OSF campus
PEORIA, Ill. -- The project to install massive new equipment at the new OSF health Cancer Institute in Peoria is making progress with the arrival of a giant particle accelerator. The device was seen m...
Cooper Banks Oct 19, 2022
UPDATE: Body found in East Peoria identified
UPDATED 4:54 P.M. EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The Tazewell County Coroner is now saying it was a former Florida resident who had been reported missing in April as the body found earlier this week in East Peor...
Will Stevenson Oct 19, 2022 (Pekin Police via Facebook)
Man accused of Peoria Heights carjacking
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - A Peoria man who's jail record lists him as homeless is accused of trying to carjack a vehicle Tuesday night. Peoria Heights Police arrested Cameron Camper, 21, just before 10 p...
Will Stevenson Oct 19, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)