Category Archives: Local News
UPDATE: Welch introduces bill to allow legislative staff to unionize
UPDATED 2:52 P.M. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch, D-Hillside, has filed legislation that would, for the first time in Illinois, authorize legislative s...
Sep 27, 2023 House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch, D-Hillside (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Residents moving in and settling into first completed homes at former Taft Homes site
PEORIA, Ill. - Erica Jones was a resident in the former Taft Homes on NE Adams St. in Peoria. And she says living conditions in her house at Taft were not the best. "It was a lot of maintenance issues...
Sep 27, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Teen arrested on weapons charges after chase with police
PEORIA, Ill. - Another arrest of juveniles in Peoria - this one after what started as a stolen vehicle ended as a stolen gun investigation. Police say they saw two juveniles that matched the descripti...
Sep 27, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Police investigating 'suspicious' death
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say they're investigating a death they term "suspicious." Officers were called to an area near Arcadia and Peoria Avenues around 7:20 a.m. Wednesday where an adult man was...
Sep 27, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
PPS board wants to hire more resource officers
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - The Board of Education at Peoria Public Schools wants resource officers to staff all 27 schools, instead of some schools having to share the same officer. The school board dir...
Sep 27, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria places limits on tobacco and nicotine sales
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria is putting new limits on tobacco sales, with higher fees and the elimination of unregulated synthetic nicotine. Peoria City Council on Tuesday night approved three measures; one ...
Sep 27, 2023 Lindsay Fox / CC
Two arrested on weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria police say they put two people behind bars Monday after one of them was spotted going into a store with a gun. Police say officers noticed Khylee Davis, 22, going into a business...
Sep 26, 2023 Khylee Davis (left) and Ramaj Mathews (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Grand jury charges man accused of fatal hit-and-run
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has indicted a man in connection with a fatal accident about a month ago. The grand jury filed a felony count of Leaving the Scene of an Accident Involving De...
Sep 26, 2023 John Timothy, Jr. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria Police investigating armed robbery from early Tuesday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - An investigation is underway after an armed robbery in Peoria's East Bluff occurring early Tuesday morning. Peoria Police responded to N. Central, in between Arcadia and Republic, just ...
Sep 26, 2023 Midwest Communications
Man arrested, accused of driving a U-Haul through yards while shooting
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is in trouble with the law after he allegedly drove a U-Haul through several areas while firing shots. Peoria Police say Kenneth Threatt, 38, faces a host of charges, inclu...
Sep 26, 2023 Kenneth Threatt (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail August 2023)
