Category Archives: Local News
McCann trial delayed another day as he cancels plan to represent himself
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The federal corruption trial of former Republican state Sen. Sam McCann was delayed again on Monday, but this time for only one day to allow a court-appoint...
Feb 12, 2024 Former state Sen. Sam McCann is pictured in a mugshot after being arrested last week for violating his conditions of pretrial release. McCann checked himself into a Missouri hospital on the eve of his corruption trial and allegedly failed to notify his probation officer of his release. His trial was again delayed until Tuesday, Feb. 13 after he terminated his plan to represent himself and agreed to let his standby attorney take over his defense. (Courthouse photo by Peter Hancock, Capitol News Illinois; booking photo from Macon County Sheriff’s Office)
Jackpot winning Illinois Lottery ticket sold Friday night in Peoria Heights
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - It was someone's lucky day in Peoria Heights on Friday night. That's where an Illinois Lottery Lucky Day Lotto ticket worth $1.45 million was sold at the BP gas station on North...
Feb 12, 2024 (Illinois Lottery)
Peoria car fire causes $30K in damages on Sunday
PEORIA, Ill. - A car fire in Peoria on Sunday caused $30,000 in damages after spreading to a home nearby. Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Ryan Calhoun says crews responded to the fire around 11:40 a.m., f...
Feb 12, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria area gas prices rising, expected to go even higher. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in Peoria have risen 4.8 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.26 a gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices in Peoria are 2...
Feb 12, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
Long-running, nagging coughs may be a problem post-COVID, post-RSV, post flu
PEORIA, Ill. - While viruses like COVID-19, RSV, and the flu have been on the way down so far this year, some lingering effects remain. Effects like a nagging or near constant cough. It could be a six...
Feb 11, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
In crisis, she went to an Illinois facility. Two years later, she still isn't able to leave
(Capitol News Illinois) - Kaleigh Rogers was in crisis when she checked into a state-run institution on Illinois' northern border two years ago. Rogers, who has cerebral palsy, had a mental health bre...
Feb 11, 2024 Kaleigh Rogers, 26, in her bedroom at Kiley Developmental Center in Waukegan, Illinois. Rogers checked into the center after a mental health breakdown. Now stabilized, she has been unable to find a better placement. (Taylor Glascock, special to ProPublica via Capitol News Illinois)
High school students across Illinois are crowning a chess champion in Peoria this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - There's a competition this weekend at the Peoria Civic Center that's a little quieter than what you would typically expect from a Bradley Braves or Peoria Rivermen game. The Illinois Hi...
Feb 10, 2024 Dunlap and Elgin in a match at the 2024 IHSA State Chess Finals at the Peoria Civic Center Ballroom. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Negotiations over contracts represent about 3,800 Teamsters around the state
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Several Teamsters unions representing thousands of state highway workers have authorized strikes as contract negotiations between them and the state's Depar...
Feb 10, 2024 (Illinois Department of Transportation)
Former lawmaker taken into custody amid delays to his corruption trial after sudden hospitalization
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Former Republican State Sen. Sam McCann, a onetime third-party candidate for governor, was taken into custody Friday morning ahead of his federal corruption...
Feb 09, 2024 Former GOP state Sen. Sam McCann’s pickup truck – the same make and model of a truck named as an illicit purchase in his indictment – is parked outside of the Paul Findley Federal Courthouse in Springfield, where McCann was supposed to have faced a corruption trial this week. Instead, he checked himself into the hospital over the weekend and his trial was delayed until Monday. The judge in the case ordered McCann detained Friday until the trial’s new start date, accusing McCann of making “excuses.” (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
UPDATED: Street sweeper part of damage after a fire to a city-owned building in Washington
UPDATED 5:19 P.M. WASHINGTON, Ill. - A city of Washington garage suffered damage after a fire Friday afternoon that appears to have started in a vehicle. Washington Assistant Fire Chief Tyler Gee says...
Feb 09, 2024 (TJ Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
