Category Archives: Local News
Pekin man sentenced to decades in prison for fatal beating
PEKIN, Ill. - A Pekin man will spend most of the next 40 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to beating a man on Halloween of 2022, and who died the next month. Tazewell County Court records indic...
Jan 26, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Tazewell County Jail)
Two arrested for alleged armed robbery that turned fatal
PEORIA, Ill. - Two people have now been arrested in connection with an armed robbery attempt that resulted in the city's second homicide of the year. Peoria Police say while conducting a separate inve...
Jan 26, 2024 Sontarrius Williams (left) and Jaylyn Branscumb (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria Rescue Ministries takes on new name and focus
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Rescue Ministries is now PATHWAY Ministries. The organization's Executive Director John Rocke says the new name aligns with a focus on long-term change, not just emergency servic...
Jan 26, 2024 Peoria Rescue Mission is changing its name to PATHWAY Ministries. This brochure shows the mission's new logo and message. (1470/100.3 WMBD)
Loyal customer gives Schooners employees a $30K tip.
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. (25 News) - A long-time customer showed incredible generosity to the employees of Schooners in Peoria Heights. The anonymous customer gave each of the 30 employees a $1,000 check ...
Jan 26, 2024 Schooner's sign outside the restaurant on War Memorial Drive in Peoria Heights. (25 News)
Methodist celebrates advanced lung cancer screening technology
PEORIA, Ill. - It's been used by a pulmonologist at Carle Health Methodist Hospital at least 100 times since it was first installed two years ago. It's a first-in-the area device called ION Robotic As...
Jan 25, 2024 ION Robotic Assisted Bronchoscopy -- a form of lung cancer screening -- is demonstrated Thursday, January 25, at Carle Health Methodist Hospital. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Work begins on another Warehouse District living complex
PEORIA, Ill. - More living options are being worked on in Peoria's Warehouse District. Work has begun to turn the former Chic Manufacturing building near Adams and Maple into 22 luxury condos with bal...
Jan 25, 2024 (25 News)
Total non-farm jobs in Peoria area flat in December, unemployment rate rises
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State officials are touting an increased number of jobs in Illinois in the year-over-year period ending in December. That wasn't in the case in Peoria. Federal data supplied throug...
Jan 25, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Man pleads not guilty to early-January murder
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has pleaded not guilty for allegedly committing the city's first homicide of the year. Court records indicate David Stone, 39, made the plea at an arraignment hearing Thurs...
Jan 25, 2024 David Stone (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
State education board to seek $653M increase in upcoming budget year
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois State Board of Education endorsed a budget request Wednesday that includes a $653 million increase in funding for PreK-12 public schools. It's ...
Jan 25, 2024 State Superintendent of Education Tony Sanders, left, and Illinois State Board of Education Chair Stephen Isoye speak at the board’s regular meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 24. The state board approved its fiscal year 2025 budget request to the General Assembly, which asks for an increase of more than $650 million from the current fiscal year. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Girlfriend of Joliet murder suspect arrested. Here's what we know
JOLIET, Ill. - The girlfriend of the man who murdered seven of his family members in Joliet earlier this week has been arrested. Fox News says 21-year-old Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton has been charged ...
Jan 25, 2024 Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Will County Jail)
