Category Archives: Local News
Disaster declaration approved for Fulton County for April tornadoes
CHICAGO, Ill. - Relief is on the way for Fulton County residents affected by damage from tornadoes on the evening of April 4th. The U.S. Small Business Administration announced on Tuesday that a disas...
May 09, 2023 (Fulton County Sheriffs Department)
Man arrested after weekend bar fight
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man was arrested after fights at Crusens in West Peoria Friday night. 24-year-old Jarkeith White-Emerson was charged with aggravated battery and resisting a peace officer. Arriving j...
May 09, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria Co. Sheriff's Office)
New mental health hospital coming to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A new mental health hospital will be coming to Peoria in the next couple years. The Meadowview Behavioral Hospital will be a 64,000 square foot, 100-bed facility located on Illinois Rou...
May 09, 2023 (OSF HealthCare)
PPS board, parents discuss "inappropriate object" at Monday's meeting
PEORIA, Ill. -- Communication was the main issue among the group of Kellar Primary School parents expressing their frustration with the school board following an incident in late April on a Peoria Pub...
May 09, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Three-vehicle crash causes at least one injury
PEORIA, Ill. - Three people were injured after an accident at the Interstate 74 Sterling off-ramp. Peoria Firefighters say the crash happened just after 4:00 p.m. Monday. The three-vehicle accident in...
May 08, 2023 (Photo taken from Illinois Department of Transportation traffic camera)
Former City Council member remembers Richard Carver
PEORIA, Ill. - Very personable. That's how former Peoria City Council member, Lieutenant Colonel Lester Bergsten, remembers former Mayor Richard Carver, who died in Florida Friday at age 85 after an i...
May 08, 2023 (City of Peoria via Facebook)
Two arrested on Mob Action, Battery, other charges
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peoria residents were arrested, but records indicate they're now out of jail -- after police say they were seen pointing guns at each other Saturday afternoon, and assaulted another...
May 08, 2023 George Lewis (left) and Dayshaun Smullin (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria man arrested Saturday on multiple weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is facing multiple weapon charges after being arrested Saturday evening. Peoria Police says a License Plate Reader helped located a vehicle associated with a wanted subject...
May 08, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Police investigate attempted ATM theft
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are trying to figure out who tried to steal an ATM in the area of the Shoppes at Grand Prairie. Police say it happened around 1:45 a.m. Monday on West American Prairie Dri...
May 08, 2023 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
East Peoria FD promotions include historic first
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The East Peoria Fire Department made three promotions official on Monday, one of which was a first. Veronica Marmitt was the first woman promoted to assistant chief in the departme...
May 08, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
