Category Archives: Local News
Peoria man faces grand jury-filed child porn charge
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has been charged by a grand jury with a discovery of alleged child pornography made last year. The grand jury Tuesday indicted Rodney Schneider, 43, with a Class-Two felony...
Feb 20, 2024 Rodney Schneider (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail January 2024)
Ahead of Pritzker's budget address, pressures that mounted last year intensify
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Republicans in the Illinois Senate indicated Tuesday that their sticking point for budget negotiations this year will be the same as it was last year - stat...
Feb 20, 2024 PHOTO: Senate Minority Leader John Curran (center) appears with fellow GOP Sens. Chapin Rose (left) and Tom Bennett (right) at a Statehouse news conference on Tuesday. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
City-owned building in Washington damaged by fire still usable
WASHINGTON, Ill. - A city-owned building in Washington can be repaired after a fire earlier this month. On February 9th, a building shared by the city's public works and police departments caught on f...
Feb 20, 2024 (TJ Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria-based effort to donate emergency vehicles to Ukraine nears two-year anniversary
PEORIA, Ill. - As the war in Ukraine will soon move into its third year of conflict, so does an effort in Peoria to help support Ukrainians on the front lines against Russian forces. US Ambulances for...
Feb 20, 2024 A former AMT ambulance is delivered to Ukraine in 2022. (File-OSF HealthCare)
Three juveniles arrested for various incidents following Monday robbery attempt
PEORIA, Ill. - Three juveniles are in custody after Peoria Police arrested them for an alleged robbery Monday, and pinned two of them to charges in other cases. Peoria Police say it started around noo...
Feb 20, 2024 (File-25 News)
Peoria man's conviction for 2022 shooting thrown out by appellate court. Read the ruling here
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois appellate court has thrown out a Peoria man's conviction related to a 2022 shooting. The Fourth District Appellate Court ruled last week that now-31-year-old Kevin Boyc...
Feb 20, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois Department of Corrections)
Family of late Peoria Police Officer donates his union badge
PEORIA, Ill. - A family is honoring their fallen loved one - a retired Police Officer - by remembering what he devoted his career to doing.. "We would like to thank Officer Robert W. Molleck for servi...
Feb 19, 2024 (Peoria Police via Facebook)
Infrastructure topics focus of roundtable discussion with government leaders in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Government leaders gathered in Peoria for a roundtable discussion Monday related to infrastructure. One of the main topics of the discussion featured how to fill engineering jobs in the...
Feb 19, 2024 Local leaders discuss infrastructure topics during a roundtable at the Peoria Art Guild. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Firefighter accused of DUI, was also accused of DUI while driving Bartonville fire truck
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria Firefighter who allegedly got into trouble for drunk driving with another department several years ago is now in trouble for allegedly doing it again. Peoria County Jail record...
Feb 19, 2024 Caden Davis (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Pritzker to mull tightening fiscal landscape in budget address this week
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker will give his sixth state budget address this week, laying out his plan for a fiscal year that government forecasters in November predicted...
Feb 19, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker is pictured during a previous State of the State address in the Illinois House chamber. He’ll give his 2024 address – his sixth as governor – on Wednesday, Feb. 21. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
