Category Archives: Local News
Government paints ex-ComEd officials as 'grand masters of corruption' before jury deliberations
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Attorneys for both the defendants and the government made the same appeal to a federal jury Tuesday before it was left to deliberate the fate of four former Commonwea...
Apr 26, 2023 Brian Turner / CC
Man charged with Residential Arson after apartment building fire
PEORIA, Ill. - A resident of a Peoria apartment building is being charged by a Peoria County grand jury with Residential Arson. The Class-1 felony charge was filed Tuesday against Carlos Almaraz-Alfer...
Apr 26, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Bradley University President assures campus is safe after bomb threat
PEORIA, Ill. - Bradley University's President is assuring the community that the campus is safe after a bomb threat Tuesday evening. Stephen Standifird made a statement on Bradley's Facebook page abou...
Apr 26, 2023 (Bradley University)
Peoria extends ShotSpotter contract with PPD
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria City Council Tuesday night unanimously agreed to extend the police department's contract with ShotSpotter. The contract runs for three years and will cost about $900,000. Peoria...
Apr 26, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
All-clear after Bradley University bomb threat
UPDATED 11:53 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A more than two hour lockdown at Bradley University Tuesday night, after a bomb threat was called in to Peoria Police. A bomb was not believed to be found, but Bradle...
Apr 25, 2023 (TJ Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Grand jury charges man with murder for Dunlap shooting death
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has indicted a Peoria man on three counts of First-Degree Murder. The grand jury also indicted Walter Artis, Jr., 26, on counts of Home Invasion and Aggravate...
Apr 25, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Underground restaurant to re-open, above-ground restaurant to debut, in downtown Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A former downtown Peoria restaurant located underground is not only making a comeback, it's going to, in a way, also makes its way above ground. Richard's Under Main -- known for servin...
Apr 25, 2023 (25 News)
UPDATE: Group accuses organization's head of embezzlement, board president of enabling it
UPDATED 6:51 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A group described as former employees, members of a Peoria church, and other community leaders asked two top officials with an organization originally started by the c...
Apr 25, 2023 (METEC)
One killed in petroleum plant explosion in Chicago area
LEMONT, Ill. - An explosion at a petroleum plant Tuesday morning in the Chicago area has left at least one person dead. Another person was taken to a hospital in Joliet after the explosion at Seneca P...
Apr 25, 2023 D4E / CC
Peoria man pleads guilty during trial to shooting, sent to prison
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man's trial was supposed to continue Tuesday after a shooting last September. Instead, court records indicate, Jay'vion Lee, 22, pleaded guilty to a charge of Aggravated Batter...
Apr 25, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
