Category Archives: Local News
Local unions gather for Peoria's annual Labor Day parade
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria will celebrate the Labor Day holiday with a parade on Monday morning put on by Peoria County Democrats. Local unions and their members will walk and ride through the streets of d...
Sep 04, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
More prayer for an end to the gun violence in South Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Community leaders and South Peoria residents gathered once again this weekend to pray for peace - at a service planned long before the violence of the past week, but with that violence ...
Sep 03, 2023 (25 News)
Peoria Fire: Juveniles cause Sunday morning 'arson' in Central Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Juveniles are believed to have caused a fire Sunday morning in a Central Peoria home. Peoria firefighters say they were called to a home on North Bevalon Place, not far from Glen, aroun...
Sep 03, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
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)
