Category Archives: Local News
Peoria council approves spending $1.2M in federal funds for violence prevention
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - The Peoria City Council has decided it will spend $1.2 million in American Rescue Plan funds to light up neighborhoods considered high-crime areas of the city. Following up on...
Jan 24, 2024 Scott McLeod / CC
State Police report fewer deaths on Illinois highways in 2023
(Capitol News Illinois) - Fatal crashes on interstates and expressways in Illinois fell by 7 percent in 2023 compared to the previous year, and shootings were down more than 30 percent. Illinois State...
Jan 23, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Grand jury indicts Peoria man for murder
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria man charged with the city's first homicide of the year has been indicted by a grand jury. Peoria County Court records indicate David Stone, 39, was formally charged Tuesday w...
Jan 23, 2024 David Stone (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
UPDATE: Pritzker touts climate investments despite renewables lagging state goals
UPDATED 1/25/24 CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois)- Boston-based Nexamp, a major player in the solar energy industry, is joining the growing list of renewable technology companies that have expanded or r...
Jan 23, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at the Chicago offices of Nexamp, one of the major players in the nation’s solar energy industry. The company on Monday announced its intention to spend $2 billion in Illinois in the near future, including building a second headquarters in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Peoria Co. roads may still be slick and icy. Here's what we know
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - Peoria County plow drivers are reporting that roads are still very slick and icy outside of the City of Peoria. Mark Gilles, with the Peoria County Highway Department, says crews...
Jan 23, 2024 A Peoria County Highway Department snow plow works to clear roads in the Dunlap area during a winter storm on January 9th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
PPS Board rejects contract renewal with Quest Charter Academy
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - Peoria Public Schools Board of Education wants to end its association with Quest Charter Academy. The board voted 5-1 Monday night not to renew Quest's contract because the ch...
Jan 23, 2024 (1470/100.3 WMBD)
Suspect in 8 Chicago-area slayings turns up dead in Texas
(Reuters) -A man suspected of shooting eight people to death and wounding another in suburban Chicago has turned up dead hundreds of miles away in Texas, where he apparently took his own life after an...
Jan 23, 2024 Romeo Nance, sought by the Joliet Police Department as a suspect in the shooting deaths of seven people in two homes, poses in an undated photograph released by investigators in Joliet, Illinois, U.S. Joliet Police Department/Handout via REUTERS
Public Works: Peoria roads continue to improve, but still slick
PEORIA, Ill. - Rain falling Tuesday morning has Peoria's main, arterial streets slushy and drivable. Peoria Public Works' Nick McMillion says residential streets remain icy and slick. Road conditions ...
Jan 23, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Staffing agencies not exempted from antitrust law, state Supreme Court rules
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Staffing agencies - a fast-growing industry that employs nearly a million Illinoisans - are not exempt from the state's antitrust law, the Illinois Supreme ...
Jan 22, 2024 Justice P. Scott Neville wrote the Illinois Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion that staffing agencies are not exempt from the state’s antitrust laws. (Capitol News Illinois illustration)
Teenager injured after multiple shootings reported Sunday evening in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating multiple reported shootings from Sunday evening that led to serious injuries for a 14-year-old boy. A Peoria Police spokeswoman says officers were dispat...
Jan 22, 2024 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 1003 WMBD)
