Category Archives: Local News
Peoria-area gas prices rise again this week, according to two agencies. Here's why, according to one of them
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in the Peoria area have risen again. Both GasBuddy.com and AAA say their averages have increased about nine cents a gallon in the last week in their local regions. AAA's is a...
Jul 31, 2023 Mike Mozart / CC
A man is dead after a head-on collision in rural Peoria County
PRINCEVILLE, Ill. - A Princeville man is dead after the car he was driving crossed traffic and hit another vehicle head-on. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Robert Renken, 66, was pronounced d...
Jul 31, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Bradley University says tightening finances and lower enrollment will result in budget and job cuts
PEORIA, Ill. - Bradley University says enrollment isn't as high as they'd like, and finances are suffering because of it, so it's time to make some cuts. The university and its president Stephen Stand...
Jul 31, 2023 (Bradley University)
Peoria Police say all juveniles were arrested in three separate incidents over the weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - Juveniles were arrested in three separate incidents in Peoria over the weekend, according to Peoria Police. Peoria Police say they discovered an armed robbery just before 5 p.m. Sunday,...
Jul 31, 2023 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Coroner identifies motorcyclist killed in an accident in rural Morton
UPDATED: 4:44 p.m. 8/1/23 MORTON, Ill. - The Tazewell County coroner has now identified the victim of a motorcycle vs car crash Sunday afternoon. Coroner Charles Hanley says 67-year-old Donald Butterf...
Jul 31, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
A Peoria man goes to federal prison for possessing a loaded handgun
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man will spend several years in federal prison after guns were found in a car he was in earlier this year. The U.S. Attorney's Office says a federal judge last week sentenced J...
Jul 31, 2023 Jermaine Allison (1470 &100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail November 2022)
Runners for St. Jude ready to hit the pavement this week
PEORIA, Ill. - Around 150 St. Jude runners and their support teams will take off from Peoria Tuesday morning, bound for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. The run, now in its...
Jul 31, 2023 (Memphis to Peoria Run Facebook)
A child was injured in a Sunday morning house fire in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A child was injured and a Central Peoria home suffered extensive damage following a late-morning fire Sunday. Peoria firefighters went to the home on Albany Avenue, near Finnell, around...
Jul 30, 2023 Fire caused extensive damage Sunday morning to this home at 1925 W. Albany in Peoria. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
State: Extreme heat and alcohol are a bad combination
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Drinking and hot weather do not mix. That's the warning from the Illinois Liquor Control Commission. Even though the weather in Peoria isn't as hot for the next couple days as it w...
Jul 30, 2023 Taylor and Kevin / CC
UPDATE: An investigation continues into a church building collapse in South Peoria. Here's what we know
UPDATED 12:34 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Members of a South Peoria church were still expected to come together to worship Sunday, despite only two walls of their building standing after a collapse Saturday. ...
Jul 30, 2023 This pile of rubble was all that was left Sunday morning of United Fellowship Ministries, after the remaining freestanding parts of the church were demolished. The building mostly collapsed Saturday. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
