Category Archives: Local News
Caterpillar profit rises on construction equipment demand
(Reuters) -Caterpillar reported a rise in third-quarter profit on Tuesday, as strong infrastructure investments across key markets boosted demand for its high-end construction equipment. Demand for he...
Oct 31, 2023 A Caterpillar 777 autonomous mining truck is displayed during CES 2023, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 6, 2023. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/ File Photo
Pere Marquette and Courtyard by Marriott downtown both sold. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - The Pere Marquette hotel in downtown Peoria, and the hotel adjoining it, have been sold. Texas-based real estate investment firm Shreem Capital has purchased the Pere and the Courtyard ...
Oct 30, 2023 (25 News)
Autopsy: Man down at scene of shooting hit by car, not gun shots
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria man found down at the scene of a Peoria Police shooting scene was not hit by gunfire - he was hit by a car. That's the finding of Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood, now tha...
Oct 30, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Latest state school report card shows proficiency gains, persistent gaps on racial lines
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Elementary and secondary students in Illinois showed consistent improvements in their reading and math scores while the state's high school graduation rate ...
Oct 30, 2023 Gillian Thomas / CC
Illinois Report Card shows increased graduation rates at Peoria Public Schools. Find the data here
PEORIA, Ill. - Graduation rates are rising at Peoria Public Schools. That's according to data in the Illinois Report Card released Monday. The district has an 81% graduation rate, up from 65.1% in 201...
Oct 30, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man convicted of murder for Peoria 2018 shooting death
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man who was already imprisoned at the time of his arrest has been convicted of murder. Peoria County Court records indicate Lionell Harris, 31, was found guilty Friday night by...
Oct 30, 2023 Lionell Harris (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail April 2022)
Soderstrom Castle's ready to entertain with "Addams Family" Halloween
PEORIA, Ill. - If you love the "Addams Family", Soderstrom Castle on Grandview Drive is the place to be on Halloween night in Peoria Heights. An impressive sound and light show began at the Castle ove...
Oct 30, 2023 Soderstrom Castle on Grandview Drive lit up for Halloween. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD--Julia Bradley)
UPDATE: Illinois man pleads not guilty in fatal stabbing of Muslim boy
UPDATED 2:47 P.M. (Reuters) - An Illinois man charged with murder and hate crimes for stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy to death and wounding his mother pleaded not guilty before a judge on Monday at a...
Oct 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Wadea Al-Fayoume, 6, a Muslim boy who according to police was stabbed to death in an attack that targeted him and his mother for their religion and as a response to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, poses in an undated family photograph obtained by Reuters on October 15, 2023. CAIR/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Peoria area gas prices drop again this week
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Average gas prices in Peoria have dropped 7.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.44 a gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices...
Oct 30, 2023 Mike Mozart / CC
Peoria Fire responds to chimney fire in Peoria's East Bluff neighborhood
PEORIA, Ill. - A fire at a two-story home in Peoria's East Bluff was contained to the chimney. Peoria Fire says crews responded to the area of Seneca and Maryland just after 10:45 P.M., and found heav...
Oct 29, 2023 D4E / CC
