Category Archives: Local News
UPDATE: Man in stable condition after Friday afternoon shooting in Peoria
UPDATED 3:52 P.M. Peoria Police are investigating a shooting from Friday afternoon that injured a man. Police say eleven shots were fired in the area of Marquette and Madison Park Terrace at around 2:...
Apr 5, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man arrested early Thursday morning on drugs and weapons charges in South Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A man was arrested early Thursday morning in South Peoria after a drug investigation. Peoria Police say 44-year-old Matthew Morris was taken into custody at around 6:00 A.M. after a sea...
Apr 5, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Salvation Army wants input on Labor Temple building
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Salvation Army is seeking options on what to do with a building it purchased last year. The organization bought the former Labor Temple building on Jefferson and Spalding in ...
Apr 5, 2024 Peoria AFL-CIO Labor Temple Building (Julia Bradley/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria Riverfront Museum set to host solar eclipse viewing party Monday
PEORIA, Ill. - Monday's total solar eclipse is an event so rare, you won't have another opportunity to see one in the U.S. again until 2045. Whether you're watching it in the "Zone of Totality" or her...
Apr 5, 2024 peoriariverfrontmuseum.org
Court upholds law limiting where child sex offenders can live
SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a state law restricting where previously convicted child sex offenders can live is constitutional, although it left open the possibility that it...
Apr 4, 2024 OVERSTREET: Illinois Supreme Court Justice David Overstreet is pictured in a file photo in the Supreme Court chamber. He authored a unanimous opinion upholding the state’s lifetime residency restrictions for child sex offenders. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Landmark Recreation Center hopeful to open Friday after water main break
PEORIA, Ill. - Landmark Recreation Center is hoping to be back to normal business hours by Friday after a water main break. The center says it was forced to close Wednesday after the break occurred on...
Apr 4, 2024 (Landmark Recreation Center)
Bill ending state's tipped wage advances but prospects uncertain amid pushback
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - An Illinois House committee advanced a measure that would end the state's subminimum wage for tipped workers amid bipartisan opposition this week, but the b...
Apr 4, 2024 CONN: Karen Conn, president of Conn’s Hospitality Group in Springfield, speaks at a news conference Wednesday at the Capitol. She said she will have to raise prices and cut employees’ hours and benefits if the state eliminates a tipped wage credit. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Cole Longcor)
Man found guilty in June 2022 shooting death in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A man has been found guilty for a shooting death in Central Peoria two years ago. A jury convicted Rev Blakes Thursday of First Degree Murder in the death of 32-year-old Michael Davis J...
Apr 4, 2024 (Peoria County Jail)
In Chicago visit, Attorney General Garland announces $78M anti-violence initiative
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - In a visit to Chicago on Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced $78 million in federal grant funding for community-based anti-violence programs. G...
Apr 4, 2024 Garland: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland addresses the second annual Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative conference. Garland highlighted federal investments in community-based organizations focused on stemming gun violence. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Dilpreet Raju)
UPDATED: Arrested man escapes police near Bradley, then recaptured
UPDATED 3:52 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police had to track down a man who escaped from one of its transport vans Wednesday night. Police say 32-year-old Daniel Moody was being transported to the Peor...
Apr 4, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
