Category Archives: Local News
OSF HealthCare close to opening new cancer institute at St. Francis Peoria campus
PEORIA, Ill. - The new OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute will start taking its first patients later this month. The $237 million facility features proton therapy and brachytherapy to treat cancer, along...
Feb 07, 2024 Dr. James McGee, head of Radiation Oncology at OSF Healthcare, stands in front of the new proton therapy machine at the OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: One person injured after Peoria house fire Wednesday afternoon
UPDATED 5:24 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - One person was treated for injuries after a fire in Peoria's North Valley Wednesday afternoon. Peoria Fire crews arrived on scene around 1:30 p.m. at Northeast Perry n...
Feb 07, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATED: Man convicted of 2022 West Peoria double homicide
UPDATED 3:26 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A Mississippi man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted in the shooting deaths of his wife and stepson in September 2022. 35-year-old Rickey ...
Feb 07, 2024 Rickey Payne enters a Peoria County courtroom Wednesday prior to learning he was found guilty of two counts of murder in a September, 2022 double homicide in West Peoria. (TJ Carson, 1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Lawmakers introduce police reform measures, advocates look to end tipped wage
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Families of gun violence victims are asking the state legislature to reform how police handle unsolved murder investigations through legislation introduced this week....
Feb 07, 2024 The Illinois State Capitol is pictured in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
PPD: Arrest made in connection with shots fired near I-74
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have arrested a man for an incident on the Gale Street overpass, off I-74, almost two weeks ago. While responding to an unrelated accident there, officers say they heard s...
Feb 07, 2024 Donte Wright (1470 & 100/3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
No one injured in Bartonville fire Tuesday afternoon
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - Firefighters responded to a house fire on S. Adams in Bartonville Tuesday afternoon. Bartonville Police say the fire broke out just after 4 p.m. Traffic was closed on S. Adams betw...
Feb 07, 2024 (25 News)
Bid to impeach Biden border official fails in US House
UPDATED 5:49 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives delivered a blow to Republican Speaker Mike Johnson when it voted on Tuesday against impeaching Democratic President Joe Biden...
Feb 06, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas takes his seat to testify before a Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on the department's budget request on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 26, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Ballot question asks Metamora Grade School District voters to raise property tax levy
METAMORA, Ill. - The Metamora Grade School District says it's in desperate need of a property tax hike, so it's going to voters to decide the issue. On the March primary election ballot will be a requ...
Feb 06, 2024 (Metamora Grade School District)
Former GOP lawmaker's trial again delayed amid last-minute hospitalization
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Instead of laying out his defense in his long-awaited federal corruption trial on Monday morning, former State Sen. Sam McCann was hospitalized in Missouri ...
Feb 06, 2024 Former Republican state Sen. Sam McCann speaks to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Springfield on Monday, Nov. 27. Though his rescheduled corruption trial was set to begin Monday, McCann was instead hospitalized and unable to make it to court. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Hannah Meisel)
State Supreme Court denies state lawmaker's bid to vacate gun ban ruling
(Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Supreme Court has again denied a request from a Republican lawmaker seeking to repeal the state's assault weapons ban. Gov. JB Pritzker signed the ban on the sal...
Feb 06, 2024 State Rep. Dan Caulkins is pictured at an Illinois State Capitol news conference last year. He was again rejected by the Illinois Supreme Court this week in a case against the state’s assault weapons ban. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
