Category Archives: Local News
UPDATE: Peoria Riverfront Museum receives largest educational gift in its history
UPDATED 1:40 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Students across central Illinois will benefit from the largest educational gift the Peoria Riverfront Museum has ever received. The museum announced the gift of $1 mil...
Sep 12, 2023 (Peoria Riverfront Museum via Facebook)
Police arrest one after drugs, guns, ammo found in home by SWAT Team
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have arrested a man after a search of a home turned up suspected drugs and stolen guns. Peoria police say Darnell Payton, 41, faces charges of Possession of a Weapon by a ...
Sep 12, 2023 (Peoria Police via Facebook)
Jussie Smollett could be headed back to jail
CHICAGO, Ill. - An Illinois appellate judge will hear arguments from both sides on Tuesday to decide whether disgraced actor Jussie Smollett should be sent back to the Cook County jail to serve the re...
Sep 12, 2023 Midwest Communications
Family escapes fire overnight in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria fire crews were called overnight to a residential fire in the area of E. McClure and N. Indiana. Fire Battalion Chief Scott Strum said the call came in around 11:40 p.m. Monday. ...
Sep 12, 2023 Midwest Communications
Prosecutor files one charge against a man who allegedly shot a West Peoria bar employee
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man who was arrested on a host of charges following a weekend shooting outside a West Peoria bar, now only faces one charge, but it's a serious felony. Peoria County Sheriffs D...
Sep 11, 2023 Anthony Gates (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Pedestrian dead after being hit by car in East Peoria
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - An East Peoria man is dead after being hit by a car late Friday night. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Anthony Whaley, 57, was pronounced dead at a Peoria Hospital less th...
Sep 11, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Ameren: State approves new electric transmission line for Peoria
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. - The Illinois Commerce Commission is giving the green light to Ameren for a project that is supposed to improve electric reliability in the Peoria area. Ameren says the ICC has app...
Sep 11, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Another juvenile arrested for gun crime in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Another juvenile arrested for what has otherwise been an adult crime. Peoria Police say they arrested a 15-year-old male they'd been investigation on multiple felony weapons-related cha...
Sep 11, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
New signs at Tazewell County polling places aim to improve voting numbers among disabled people
PEKIN, Ill. - Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman says a "silent voice" is about to be heard on election days in his county. Ackerman announced a $28,000 grant on Monday to improve signage at every po...
Sep 11, 2023 Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman discusses changes to make voting more accessible to disabled people at a news conference on Sept. 11th, 2023. (Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman)
UPDATE: Several hurt in ADM central Illinois plant blast; corn, soy processing down
UPDATED 2:23 P.M. CHICAGO (Reuters) -Several employees were hospitalized after an explosion and fire late on Sunday at a massive Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) facility in Decatur, Illinois, that severe...
Sep 11, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The world's largest corn mill of global grain company Archer Daniels Midland is pictured in Decatur, Illinois, U.S., March 16, 2015. REUTERS/Karl Plume/File Photo
