Category Archives: Local News
Man arrested in area of recent Peoria vehicle burglaries
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say they arrested someone in an area that has had a recent rash of vehicle burglaries. Officers arrested Malachi Messenger, 18, after a brief foot chase thanks in part to ...
Aug 18, 2023 Malachi Messenger (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Second suspect arrested for mid-July Peoria shooting
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say a second person has been arrested in connection with a shooting more than a month ago. Peoria Police say Jimmy Williams, Jr., 20, was arrested Thursday on charges of A...
Aug 18, 2023 Jimmy Williams, Jr. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
State's Attorney: 55 more charges filed against doctor who videotaped employees in OSF bathrooms
PEORIA, Ill. - A presumably now-former doctor with OSF Saint Francis Medical Center now faces significantly more charges for allegedly recording employees in women's restrooms. The Peoria County State...
Aug 18, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Former lawmaker testifies Madigan confidant urged him to resign at behest of speaker
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - In the fall of 2018, then-state Rep. Lou Lang, D-Skokie, thought he might have been in line for a big promotion in the Illinois House of Representatives. He'd unexpec...
Aug 18, 2023 File photos picture former House Speaker Michael Madigan (right) and his close confidant Mike McClain. The pair will face their own trial on racketeering charges next year and are key figures in the ongoing perjury trial of Madigan's longtime chief of staff, Tim Mapes. (Capitol News Illinois file photos)
East Peoria diner damaged by fire
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - An East Peoria business suffered fire damage Thursday night. East Peoria Fire Chief Bobby Zimmerman says a fire broke out at June Bug's Diner around 9:15 p.m. on Meadow Avenue. Res...
Aug 18, 2023 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
Fire Thursday night in Peoria caused by arson
PEORIA, Ill. - Firefighters responded to a residential fire Thursday night in Peoria that investigators say was arson. Fire broke out in the area of N. North Street and W. Nebraska around 6:45 p.m. Pe...
Aug 18, 2023 Midwest Communications
Unity - not Trump - is the message at Illinois State Fair Republican Day
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - During Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair Thursday, state party leaders sought a message of unity ahead of the 2024 presidential election. One appare...
Aug 17, 2023 U.S. Rep Darin LaHood, of Dunlap, speaks to the crowd during Illinois State Fair Republican Day festivities in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Man suffers 'significant arm injury' after accident at East Peoria UPS facility
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A man could be seriously injured following an accident at the UPS facility in East Peoria. The East Peoria Fire Department confirms firefighters went to the facility on West Camp S...
Aug 17, 2023 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
A Peoria hotel settles federal claims of an Americans with Disabilities Act violation but doesn't admit wrongdoing
PEORIA, Ill. - The owner of a Peoria hotel is paying restitution to the family of a youth with a disability, but isn't admitting wrongdoing, after an alleged violation of the Americans with Disabiliti...
Aug 17, 2023 The Hampton Inn in Peoria, near the Shoppes at Grand Prairie (Source: petersenhotels.com)
Drought levels decreasing locally and across Illinois. Here's where conditions currently stand
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Drought conditions are easing up in Illinois. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report shows 14.72% of the state experiencing some level of drought. That's down from 27.35% the week pr...
Aug 17, 2023 (National Weather Service)
