Category Archives: Local News
Juvenile shot in foot Monday night; police investigating
PEORIA, Ill. - A teenager is expected to be okay after being shot in the foot late Monday night. Peoria Police say the 15-year-old boy told investigators he was hit when someone shot at the vehicle he...
Nov 7, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
PPS employees waiting for their paychecks, but it's not the district's fault
PEORIA, Ill. - Employees of Peoria Public Schools are waiting for paychecks, after being told last Friday there would be a delay due to a national banking error. The school district's Haleemah Na' All...
Nov 7, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
EPA, Pekin ethanol facilities reach settlement over emissions standards violations
CHICAGO, Ill. - The Environmental Protection Agency says it's reached a settlement with a local ethanol producer over air pollution violations. The EPA says Alto Pekin LLC and Alto ICP LLC have been f...
Nov 6, 2023 (Environmental Protection Agency)
UPDATE: Inmate at Pekin federal prison dies
UPDATE 5:06 P.M. PEKIN, Ill. - One inmate at the Pekin federal prison is dead after a fight Monday. The Department of Justice says David Tran, 67, died after what they called a "perceived altercation"...
Nov 6, 2023 Federal Correctional Institute Pekin (Bureau of Prisons)
Caregiver charged with stealing money from elderly person
PEKIN, Ill. - A Creve Coeur woman is accused of stealing from an elderly woman she was tasked with taking care of. Heather White, 33, is facing charges in Tazewell County of Financial Exploitation of ...
Nov 6, 2023 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Man pleads guilty to Second Degree Murder, on day First Degree Murder trial was to start
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man pleaded guilty to a charge of Second-Degree Murder, on the day his trial on charges of First-Degree Murder was to start. Peoria County Court records indicate the First-Degr...
Nov 6, 2023 Chazier Johnson (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail June 2022)
UPDATE: Academic programs, faculty proposed to be cut at Bradley University. Here's what we know
UPDATED 2:20 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - We're learning more about what may be cut or reduced at Bradley University as part of an announced $13 million in cuts. According to an e-mail to Bradley staff, later ...
Nov 6, 2023 (Bradley University)
Fire destroys part of former Kewanee Boiler Corporation plant; teens arrested
KEWANEE, Ill. - What could be considered part of a piece of local history in West Central Illinois was destroyed over the weekend by fire. Police in the Henry County city of Kewanee say two juveniles ...
Nov 6, 2023 (Courtesy Amy Belsky)
Gas prices continue to shrink in central Illinois. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - It's not much compared to last week, but gas prices in central Illinois continue to fall. GasBuddy reports the average price of a gallon of unleaded in the Peoria area sits at $3.43/g, ...
Nov 6, 2023 Mike Mozart / CC
Electrical fire damages Peoria home Sunday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Firefighters were called to a home on E. Frye in Peoria Sunday night. Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Hascall says around 8:15 p.m., crews found heavy smoke coming from the one-story h...
Nov 6, 2023 D4E / CC
