Category Archives: Local News
UPDATE: Two shot overnight in South Peoria
UPDATED 3:12 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Two people were shot in South Peoria early Monday morning. Peoria Police say the two were hit around 1:00 a.m. on Southwest Jefferson near Leland Street, but both were...
Oct 23, 2023 Midwest Communications
Gun laws, scholarship tax credits, nuclear energy - but not new spending - on table for veto session
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - When lawmakers return to the Capitol next week for their annual fall veto session, they have a full agenda, including a handful of vetoes from Gov. JB Pritz...
Oct 22, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Five displaced after Saturday fire
PEORIA, Ill. - Five people were left without a home after a fire Saturday caused at least some damage to it. Peoria firefighters say the fire near Starr and Folkers was found in a first floor bedroom,...
Oct 22, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Metamora Township High School robotics club builds car for special needs child
METAMORA, Ill. (25 News) - A special needs child in Metamora is getting some help to get around easier from the town's high school students. Fitz Thornton is a 3-year-old who has L1 syndrome, and is u...
Oct 21, 2023 (25 News)
Freddy's opens in East Peoria this weekend
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A new place to grab a burger in central Illinois opens to the public for the first time this weekend. Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers will have its first day Saturday. The...
Oct 21, 2023 (Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers)
Victim in fatal Peoria house fire identified
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has released the name of the victim in Thursday's fatal fire at a Peoria home. Harwood says Don Watson, 72, suffered severe smoke inhalation and burn...
Oct 20, 2023 Peoria Fire and Police crews responded to a fire near Gale and Richwoods Thursday morning. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Controversial pipeline canceled amid safety concerns, regulatory pushback
(Capitol News Illinois) - Navigator CO2, a Nebraska-based company specializing in carbon capture and sequestration, announced Friday it is canceling plans to build a 1,300-mile carbon dioxide pipeline...
Oct 20, 2023 The proposed map shows the Illinois portion of the now-canceled Navigator Heartland Greenway pipeline. (Published by Navigator CO2 at heartlandgreenway.com)
Three new exhibits debut Friday at Peoria Riverfront Museum. Here's what they are
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Riverfront Museum is celebrating its 11th anniversary with new exhibits to help the public learn about figures from the city's history, and make you think. One of the exhibit...
Oct 20, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
"Peoria Magazine" to have final issue of publication in November
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria-based publication could soon have its final edition. WTVP's "Peoria Magazine" will print its last issue in November. "We know Peoria Magazine created a niche for itself in the ...
Oct 20, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Released by Hamas, American mother, daughter reunited with family in Israel
UPDATED 10/21 9:14 A.M. GAZA/EVANSTON, Illinois (Reuters) -Two newly freed American hostages, a Chicago-area woman and her teenage daughter, were reunited with family inside Israel on Friday as relati...
Oct 20, 2023 Chicago-area residents Judith Tai Raanan and her daughter Natalie Shoshana Raanan, two American hostages freed on Friday by the armed wing of Hamas, pose in this undated picture obtained by Reuters on October 20, 2023. Obtained by Reuters/via REUTERS
