Category Archives: Local News
State Police files change to use of 'Clear and Present Danger' reports for FOID cards
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois State Police officials are filing a emergency rule change regarding FOID card applications if there is a so-called "clear and present danger." The rule change was filed at...
Will Stevenson Jul 18, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria crews battle early morning blaze
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria fire crews were called around 5:15 a.m. Monday to the area of W. Susan Curve Court and N. Stephen Drive on reports of a structure fire. Firefighters arrived on scene and found s...
Julia Bradley Jul 18, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
IL Attorney General: Scams involving victims of gun crimes
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - With several more homicides in Peoria in the last week, and the recent mass shooting in the Chicago suburbs, the Illinois Attorney General's office is warning about scams relating ...
Will Stevenson Jul 17, 2022 Midwest Communications/University of Illinois Extension
UPDATE: Teen dead following Saturday afternoon shooting, two others injured
UPDATED 12:05 P.M. 7/17/22 PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Coroner has identified a teenager who died Saturday afternoon when shots were fired not far from Peoria Zoo. Coroner Jamie Harwood says an a...
Will Stevenson Jul 16, 2022 (25 News)
Peoria payment portal being upgraded this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- The city of Peoria's online payment portal for Stormwater Utility bills will undergo a system update on Saturday, July 16. Following the update, those who currently pay their bills onl...
Julia Bradley Jul 16, 2022 1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Watkins now officially Peoria County Sheriff
PEORIA, Ill. - The appointment of Chris Watkins as Peoria County's sheriff is now official. The Peoria County Board Thursday night approved the appointment of Watkins as Sheriff, taking the word "inte...
Will Stevenson Jul 15, 2022 (Peoria County Government)
Coroner: Homicide-Suicide ruled in Thursday deaths
PEORIA, Ill. - One is a homicide. The other is a suicide. That is the ruling from Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood on the two bodies found in the basement of a Central Peoria home Thursday, followi...
Will Stevenson Jul 15, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
State: 'Slow but steady' increase in COVID-19 cases
CHICAGO, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Public Health is warning of what they call a "slow but steady increase" in COVID-19 cases. The state says a little more than 33,000 cases were added in the l...
Will Stevenson Jul 15, 2022 (Centers for Disease Control)
Waffle House shooter ordered to serve life sentences consecutively
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - It's, in reality, only one life sentence, but a judge says four life sentences for the central Illinois man who opened fire in a Tennessee Waffle House four years ago must be served...
Will Stevenson Jul 15, 2022 (WSMV-TV via 25 News)
Man pleads guilty to 2018 Dixon High School shooting
DIXON, Ill. - A former Dixon High School student who opened fire at a graduation practice four years ago has pleaded guilty. Matthew Milby, 23, pleaded guilty Thursday in Lee County to a pair of count...
Will Stevenson Jul 15, 2022 (2018 File-Lee County Jail)