Category Archives: Local News
Family displaced by fire Tuesday night in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A fire that started in the kitchen of a Peoria home Tuesday night left a family of eight with no place to stay. Fire Battalion Chief Ryan Calhoun said the residents evacuated before cre...
Sep 20, 2023 D4E / CC
Three charged with stealing $1M in gas station sales tax revenue. Read the charges here
PEORIA, Ill. - Three people are facing a host of charges for allegedly understating at least a million dollars worth of sales tax receipts at local Shell gas stations - about a year after the stations...
Sep 19, 2023 This Shell gas station was one of several in the Peoria area closed for a criminal investigation on August 3, 2022. (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Victim in fatal Central Peoria shooting identified
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Coroner has identified the victim in last night's fatal shooting in Central Peoria. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Antonio Hardy, 33, was initially conscious...
Sep 19, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Public tip leads to arrest of East Peoria assault suspect
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Police in East Peoria say they have the man in custody they believe is responsible for assaulting a woman while posing as a solar panel salesman. Police say Ezekiel Metcalfe, 20, w...
Sep 19, 2023 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
New coffee shop will replace former coffee shop in downtown Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A coffee shop will replace a recently-closed coffee shop in downtown Peoria. Ty Paluska, one of the founders of thirty-thirty coffee downtown, says he's taken over the space in the Kick...
Sep 19, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Dog left at Pekin animal shelter in a taped-up box, and they want your help. Here's how
PEKIN, Ill. - "We have been simmering in our anger all day...." Those are the beginning words of a social media post from the Pekin-based TAPS Animal Shelter after a dog was left on their property lat...
Sep 19, 2023 This dog was left at TAPS in Pekin late Sunday inside a box.
(TAPS via Facebook)
Peoria Police want help finding vehicle believed used in an August homicide
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are asking for your help finding a vehicle that may have been used in the city's 13th homicide of the year last month. Police say they've learned of what they call a black...
Sep 19, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Shutterstock/Peoria Police)
UPDATE: Peoria records its 19th homicide of 2023. Here's what we know
UPDATED 12:53 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. - A man has died after being shot in Peoria Monday night at the Phillips 66 gas station near the intersection of Sheridan and McClure. Peoria Police say a ShotSpotter a...
Sep 19, 2023 (25 News)
Peoria Police Chief talks shooting victims and juvenile crime
PEORIA, Ill. - Murders are down in Peoria this year, but shootings, and rounds fired, are both up. And, Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria says there's one group of people that are being impacted the...
Sep 18, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
New State Police rules for assault weapons permits will take effect Oct. 1
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinoisans who own weapons that can no longer be purchased or sold in the state under its new assault weapons ban will soon be able to register those weapo...
Sep 18, 2023 brian.ch / CC
