Category Archives: Local News
Community honors students who died a week ago in Colorado accident
FAIRBURY, Ill. - A community in Livingston County is showing its support by the hundreds for two student athletes who died a week ago Sunday after a sledding accident in Colorado. A candlelight vigil ...
Mar 26, 2023 (25 News)
Arson causes damage to South Peoria home
PEORIA, Ill. - Another Peoria home has suffered damage from a fire ruled to be arson. This one happened early Sunday morning near Westmoreland and Krause in South Peoria. Crews say when they arrived a...
Mar 26, 2023 Midwest Communications
1 dead, 10 injured after off-campus party shooting at WIU
MACOMB, Ill. - Police in Macomb say one person died, and another ten people were injured, after a shooting near the campus of Western Illinois University. Authorities say the shooting occurred just be...
Mar 25, 2023 Midwest Communications
College sports betting locally rises sharply in March
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - March is a busy month for betting in Illinois, but some groups and operators do have concerns. The state gaming board says in March 2022, the Par-A-Dice Casino in East Peoria broug...
Mar 25, 2023 Chad Davis / CC
Slight increased risk of COVID spread in Illinois
CHICAGO, Ill. - The risk of COVID-19 spread in Illinois is up slightly from a week ago. The Illinois Department of Public Health says 12 counties are at medium level of risk of spreading the virus. Th...
Mar 25, 2023
Ameren offering option to pay back past-due bills
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. - Hard economic times may cause someone to hold off on paying something that is due each month. And that may include the electric and gas bill. "Just as a normal everyday citizen, t...
Mar 25, 2023 (Ameren Illinois)
Rivian to relocate staff to Illinois EV plant to accelerate production - WSJ
(Reuters) - Rivian Automotive Inc is relocating parts of its manufacturing engineering team to Illinois to speed up production, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing a person familiar wit...
Mar 24, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The Rivian name is shown on one of their new electric SUV vehicles in San Diego, U.S., December 16, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Blake//File Photo
Decades in prison for convicted child pornographer
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County man will go to federal prison for the next 50 years on Child Pornography-related charges. Benjamin Lascelles, 36 of Glasford, was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilt...
Mar 24, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail February 2020)
New names coming to Louisville Slugger Sports Complex
PEORIA, Ill. - A new partnership is coming to the Louisville Slugger Sports Complex. OSF Healthcare Field is now at the complex after the two parties entered into a partnership. The agreement also wil...
Mar 24, 2023 (OSF HealthCare)
Two wanted for federal COVID-19-related fraud violations
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peoria residents are wanted by federal authorities after allegedly lying in order to receive federal COVID-19 relief money. The U.S. Attorney's office says Andre Johnson, 25, and Sh...
Mar 24, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
