Category Archives: Local News
Illinois creates Whole Child Task Force to better support students
CHICAGO, Ill. - Illinois has a new law that will require schools to better address student trauma. The law is based on recommendations from the Whole Child Task Force, which was created by the Illinoi...
Aug 03, 2023 Montse PB / CC
Two arrested on charges accusing them of having a stolen license plate, a stolen car, and stolen power tools
PEORIA, Ill. - Two area residents are accused by Peoria Police of having a stolen car, with a stolen license plate, and stolen power tools. Police say a license plate reader detected the stolen plate ...
Aug 03, 2023 Joslyn Pitts (left) and Kevin O'Keefe (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Two are in jail after an elderly woman is beaten and her car is stolen
PEORIA, Ill. - Two people are in jail, accused of beating an elderly woman and stealing her car Wednesday afternoon. Peoria Police say it happened around 1:45 p.m. near Adams and Hayward in the North ...
Aug 03, 2023 Ashlee Dixon (left) and Luke Riordan (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Trio arrested in connection with Peoria fire Wednesday morning, here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - There's new information about a residential fire that happened Wednesday morning in Peoria. Police and the Peoria Fire Department arrived at a home on W. Gift around 10 a.m., finding fl...
Aug 03, 2023 Augusting Young (left), Nija Redden (center), and Randy Harvey (right). (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
UPDATE: Missing wolf statue is believed to have been found
UPDATED 3:19 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - It didn't take long. Not long after a statue of a wolf was reported missing from outside a central Peoria home, it's been found. Sources tell us owner Blair Gambill is...
Aug 03, 2023 (25 News)
Big time disc golf tournament returns to Peoria area the next several days. Here are the details
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - A big event is starting Thursday in Peoria. It's billed as the "world's largest disc golf tournament" - the Ledgestone Open being played at a number of venues in the area, incl...
Aug 03, 2023 (Ledgestone Open)
Local theater icon Mary Simon passes away
GOODFIELD, Ill. - After more than four decades of performing local theater, Goodfield resident Mary Simon has passed away. Simon, who operated the Barn III Dinner Theatre in Goodfield, formerly known ...
Aug 03, 2023 (Kibler Brady Ruestman Memorial Home)
Residents escape fire in Peoria, home demolished
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria crews were called to the area of W. Gift and N. Isabell for a residential fire Wednesday morning. Fire officials said fire broke out around 10 a.m., with flames showing from the ...
Aug 02, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
A local movie theater is closed, and there's plenty of speculation as to why
PEORIA, Ill. - Other movie theaters are apparently still able to show movies, but one local theater may be blaming a closure on the ongoing writers' strike. Sources are telling 25 News that the closur...
Aug 02, 2023 (25 News)
A Peoria man is jailed after a Wednesday morning stabbing
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is jailed after an early morning stabbing in South Peoria. Peoria Police say Efral Keys, Jr., 55, was taken to the Peoria County Jail on two counts of Aggravated Battery. P...
Aug 02, 2023 Efral Keys, Jr. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
