Category Archives: Local News
High schoolers receive hands-on experiences and construction work opportunities at Caterpillar in Edwards
EDWARDS, Ill. - Construction unions and contractors from central Illinois made their pitch to high school students today to have a career with them. It was made at the SkillsUSA Illinois Construction ...
Dec 01, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Detention hearing for Pekin resident charged with murder of infant continued
PEKIN, Ill. - A Pekin man charged this week with the death of a nine-week-old infant will remain in custody for now, as a judge won't decide for another week and a half whether he gets out of jail or ...
Dec 01, 2023 Hunter Waters (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Tazewell County Jail via 25 News)
Peoria Fire stresses fire safety and prevention with 'Keep the Wreath Red' campaign
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Fire Department is decorating for the holidays, but the meaning goes farther than that. Each fire station has a wreath outside it, with 25 red light bulbs. Every time there's...
Dec 01, 2023 Nate Rice, Peoria Fire Division Chief of Fire Prevention, speaks outside Peoria Fire's Central Fire Station Friday about the "Keep the Wreath Red" campaign. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria anti-violence group shuts down due to lack of funding
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - After nine years of supporting victims of violence, Peoria Community Against Violence (PCAV) closed its doors Thursday. PCAV's last effort to save the non-profit organization ...
Dec 01, 2023 (Peoria Police Department via Facebook)
State high court finds medical personnel exemption to biometric information privacy law
(Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday ruled the state's strongest-in-the-nation biometric information privacy law does have an exemption: health care workers who use fingerp...
Nov 30, 2023 Justice David K. Overstreet wrote the unanimous opinion for a case in which the Illinois Supreme Court found that the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act does not apply to health care workers required to use fingerprint scanners to dispense medicine. (Capitol News Illinois illustration by Andrew Adams)
Illinois Supreme Court: FOID records exempt from public disclosure
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that people may obtain records about their own Firearm Owners Identification cards, but they may not use the state...
Nov 30, 2023 Justice Joy V. Cunningham wrote the unanimous opinion that found the Illinois State Police can deny records requests for details about Firearm Owner’s Identification Cards, even if the requester is seeking their own records. (Capitol News Illinois illustration by Andrew Adams)
1 injured after fire damages home near Peoria Airport
PEORIA, Ill. - One man is believed to be hurt after a house fire Thursday afternoon near the Greater Peoria International Airport. Limestone Township Fire officials say the blaze broke out around 1:00...
Nov 30, 2023 (25 News)
Morton Community Chorus spends Thanksgiving holiday performing at Carnegie Hall
MORTON, Ill. - A central Illinois group spent their Thanksgiving holiday performing on one of the grandest stages for music in the world. The Morton Community Chorus were part of a performance Sunday ...
Nov 30, 2023 (Distinguished Concerts International New York)
Illinois Supreme Court strikes down Peoria woman's request for a reduced sentence in 2001 murder
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Peoria woman's attempt to have her sentence reduced in a 20-year-old murder case, despite a plea deal, has been turned down by the Illinois Supreme Court. The state's high court ...
Nov 30, 2023 Ronald and Angela Wells (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois Department of Corrections)
UPDATE: Fire at Morton bank location causes damage
UPDATED 3:02 P.M. MORTON, Ill. - A car fire Thursday afternoon caused damage to a branch of Morton Community Bank. Morton Fire Chief Joe Kelley says crews responded to the fire in the drive-thru telle...
Nov 30, 2023 Fire crews take care of a fire that started in the drive-through lane of the Morton Community Bank location at Main and Detroit in Morton. (TJ Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
