Category Archives: Local News
Former Peoria City Council at-large member passes away
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City Council took time at Tuesday night's meeting to honor and remember a former at-large member. Timothy J. Newlin passed away on Friday, March 24th at his home surrounded b...
Mar 29, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Wright & Salmon Mortuary)
Security authority discusses tactics to make schools safer from attacks
PEORIA, Ill. -- Following a deadly mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, school security is top of mind. 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a former student of Covenant School, a private Christian sc...
Mar 29, 2023 (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via Facebook)
Peoria Fire responds to early morning fire at apartment complex
PEORIA, Ill. - No one was injured after a patio fire at an apartment complex early Wednesday morning. Peoria Fire received a call just before 2:30 A.M. to the Haymeadow Apartments on West Haymeadow re...
Mar 29, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Calls for action as panel releases data showing deep racial disparity in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City Council received data Tuesday night about racial inequities in the city and in Peoria County that one elected official said was "very sobering" and what the mayor descr...
Mar 29, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Body found in storage locker last October positively identified
KNOX COUNTY, Ill. - New details are available about a dead body that was found last October inside a storage unit in rural Knox County. The Knox County Sheriffs Department says they've received word t...
Mar 28, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Knox County Jail)
Traffic stop leads to weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is behind bars after a loaded handgun was allegedly found inside his car Tuesday morning. Peoria Police say Laderrius Williams, 32 -- who allegedly had a revoked drivers li...
Mar 28, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Man faces weapons charge after traffic stop, released from custody
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man faces charges after a gun was allegedly found in his vehicle early Friday. Peoria Police released details of the arrest four days later, which was during a traffic stop on ...
Mar 28, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Grand jury indicts woman on murder charge
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has indicted a woman for the suspected stabbing death of her boyfriend. The grand jury Tuesday formally charged Heaven Kruzan, 22, with First-Degree Murder. K...
Mar 28, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Former Rep. Kinzinger makes donation to Pekin's Dirksen Congressional Center
PEKIN, Ill. - A now-former U.S. Representative who received a lot of criticism his last few years in office for taking former President Donald Trump to task is helping a Tazewell County-based entity. ...
Mar 28, 2023 Hudson Institute / CC
"Peoria Cares" app gets an important upgrade
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria hopes an upgrade of its "Peoria Cares" app will make it easier for residents to report concerns to city officials. Peoria is partnering with SeeClickFix to update the app and on...
Mar 28, 2023 (City of Peoria)
