Category Archives: Local News
PPS Board rejects contract renewal with Quest Charter Academy
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - Peoria Public Schools Board of Education wants to end its association with Quest Charter Academy. The board voted 5-1 Monday night not to renew Quest's contract because the ch...
Jan 23, 2024 (1470/100.3 WMBD)
Suspect in 8 Chicago-area slayings turns up dead in Texas
(Reuters) -A man suspected of shooting eight people to death and wounding another in suburban Chicago has turned up dead hundreds of miles away in Texas, where he apparently took his own life after an...
Jan 23, 2024 Romeo Nance, sought by the Joliet Police Department as a suspect in the shooting deaths of seven people in two homes, poses in an undated photograph released by investigators in Joliet, Illinois, U.S. Joliet Police Department/Handout via REUTERS
Public Works: Peoria roads continue to improve, but still slick
PEORIA, Ill. - Rain falling Tuesday morning has Peoria's main, arterial streets slushy and drivable. Peoria Public Works' Nick McMillion says residential streets remain icy and slick. Road conditions ...
Jan 23, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Staffing agencies not exempted from antitrust law, state Supreme Court rules
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Staffing agencies - a fast-growing industry that employs nearly a million Illinoisans - are not exempt from the state's antitrust law, the Illinois Supreme ...
Jan 22, 2024 Justice P. Scott Neville wrote the Illinois Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion that staffing agencies are not exempt from the state’s antitrust laws. (Capitol News Illinois illustration)
Teenager injured after multiple shootings reported Sunday evening in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating multiple reported shootings from Sunday evening that led to serious injuries for a 14-year-old boy. A Peoria Police spokeswoman says officers were dispat...
Jan 22, 2024 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 1003 WMBD)
ADM shares dive 22% as accounting probe launched, CFO placed on leave
(Reuters) -Shares of Archer-Daniels-Midland slid 22% on Monday, the steepest drop in decades, after CFO Vikram Luthar was placed on administrative leave as the company investigates accounting practice...
Jan 22, 2024 Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM) logo is seen displayed in this illustration taken, April 10, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Icy roads delay trash/recycling schedule in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Due to icy road conditions on Monday morning, Peoria's trash collection will be delayed this week. GFL will not collect trash or recycling on Monday in Peoria. This will push back trash...
Jan 22, 2024 Peoria trash cart out at the end of a driveway after snow. (1470/100.3 WMBD-Julia Bradley)
Peoria County closes offices due to inclement weather Monday
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - A number of Peoria County facilities will be closed on Monday due to icy conditions on the roads. The Peoria County Courthouse, Veterans Assistance Commission, Peoria County Elec...
Jan 22, 2024
Peoria area gas prices have gone up again
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in Peoria have gone up six cents a gallon in the past week, averaging $3.07 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of local stations. Prices in Peoria are just over three ...
Jan 22, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
Co-founder of WTVP watchdog group calls for more transparency with public television station's Board of Directors
PEORIA, Ill. - One of the co-founders for a watchdog group focused on Peoria's public television station WTVP says things are off to a good start with the new board chairman. On Tuesday, 11 members of...
Jan 21, 2024 (25 News)
