Category Archives: Local News
Sheriff: Three arrested on gun charges during 'proactive' effort by deputies
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins says three people were arrested Friday night in an effort, he says, to get guns off the street following the recent violence in South Peoria and beyo...
Sep 02, 2023 (Left to right) Carlos Zolicoffer, Ivan Ellis, Paris Ambrose (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
PPD: Man injured in south side shooting Friday night
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - Peoria Police are investigating a shooting that injured a man near Martin Luther King Jr. Park on the city's south side. Police responded about 11 p.m. to W. Hurlburt Street a...
Sep 02, 2023 Midwest Communications
Two teens injured in early Friday Woodford County crash
METAMORA, Ill. - Two juveniles are injured after an early morning accident Friday in Metamora. That's according to the Woodford County Sheriffs Department. Chief Deputy Dennis Tipsword says the accide...
Sep 01, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Police chief, through social media, provides new update into violence investigations
PEORIA, Ill. - The attempts to stop crime in Peoria didn't stop with a press conference Thursday, or with the two homicides Thursday morning. That's according to a new message posted on Facebook by Pe...
Sep 01, 2023 Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria, from a video posted to social media Friday. (Peoria Police Department via Facebook)
Two face charges after allegedly crashing a stolen vehicle
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peorians are in custody, one of whom is a juvenile, after police say they were caught in a stolen vehicle early Friday morning. Peoria Police say they tried to pull over a vehicle r...
Sep 01, 2023 Quandarius Jones (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Rossi back in federal custody -- at least until Tuesday
PEORIA, Ill. - Former Reditus Labs CEO Aaron Rossi is back in federal custody, at least until a hearing next week to determine whether he once again violated terms of his pre-trial release. That's acc...
Sep 01, 2023 (25 News)
Talking, helping, and praying as violence continues in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - In the last several days, and especially since Thursday's two deaths deemed to be homicides in Peoria and Wednesday's mass shooting injuring six, people have doing what they can to make...
Sep 01, 2023 Peoria Police respond to a shooting Thursday morning on W. Antoinette and Madison Park. (TJ Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Pritzker defends denials of medical release requests from dying and disabled prisoners
(via Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker defended the number of dying and disabled prisoners released under a landmark law that went into effect early last year at a news conference Thu...
Sep 01, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker visited Phoenix Community Development Services in Peoria to discuss his bill that, among other things, seeks to end homelessness in Illinois (File-T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
'Surge' in organization efforts has labor leaders optimistic for the future
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - As workers in Illinois prepare to celebrate Labor Day this weekend, a new report shows there has been a surge in efforts to organize labor unions in workpla...
Sep 01, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
New Illinois program starting Friday aims to reduce time spent at the DMV
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Starting Friday, the time you spend at a DMV in Illinois could be decreased. The state's new "Skip the Line" program begins today. It makes the 44 busiest DMVs in Illinois, includi...
Sep 01, 2023 Christopher Schmidt / CC
