Category Archives: Local News
New law limits venue for constitutional lawsuits to Sangamon, Cook counties
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - People who file lawsuits in state courts challenging the constitutionality of a state law, administrative rule or executive order will now have to file thos...
Jun 08, 2023 Brian Turner / CC
Man found guilty of 2022 New Year's shooting death
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County jury has found Robert White guilty in the 2022 New Year's shooting death of 33-year-old Daniela Jackson. The verdict came Thursday after closing arguments were made the ...
Jun 08, 2023 Robert White (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail 2022)
Arrest made in connection with shooting at Peoria County deputies in March
PEORIA, Ill. - A man accused of shooting at Peoria County's Sheriff's Deputies in March has been arrested. Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins says an investigation by sheriff's deputies, Peoria Polic...
Jun 08, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria man convicted of 2021 murder
UPDATED 6:08 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County jury reportedly took just a short period of time to convict a Peoria man of murder Wednesday -- the second of two trials going on this week in county c...
Jun 07, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail 2021)
Jury deliberating in case of Peoria's first 2022 homicide
PEORIA, Ill. - A jury is now deciding the fate of a Peoria man, charged with committing the city's first two homicides of 2022, but has been on trial for the first of them. Deliberations started Wedne...
Jun 07, 2023 Robert White (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail 2022)
Pritzker puts final stamp on $50.4 billion state spending plan
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker signed the state's operating budget for the upcoming fiscal year on Wednesday, marking the first spending plan of his second term as governor. The $5...
Jun 07, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker signs the Fiscal Year 2024 state budget into law Wednesday. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Gordon-Booth took lead budget negotiator role; Republicans react to just-signed spending plan
CHICAGO, Ill. - A Peoria lawmaker had more of a hand in the coming fiscal year's state budget than just wanting some things funded. State Representative Jehan Gordon-Booth was the lead "budgeteer" -- ...
Jun 07, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Stolen vehicles found unoccupied in Peoria early Wednesday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - Two vehicles reported stolen were found unoccupied in Peoria early Wednesday morning. Peoria Police responded to the area of Knoxville and Lyndale Road just before 3:00 A.M. on reports ...
Jun 07, 2023 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Walls coming down at former Heddington Oaks for conversion to youth mental health facility
Thompson says there's only a limited number of beds for mental health treatment at Methodist and Proctor Hospitals, and only a few at each for youth, leading to thousands being sent away every year. I...
Jun 07, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
New festival in Pekin celebrates the community's volunteers
PEKIN, Ill. - Thousands of volunteers in the Pekin area serve in a variety of roles. And the city will now have a festival to honor them. The first Pekin Community Picnic and Volunteer Celebration wil...
Jun 07, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
