Category Archives: Local News

1 of 3 charged with 2021 shooting death convicted of murder
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is the first of three people charged with the murder of a Manual High School student two years ago, to be convicted. Court records indicate a jury Wednesday found Jeremy Mo...
Will Stevenson Sep 27, 2023 (Left to Right): Jeremy Moore, Jr., Gary Irby, Tyranique White (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail October 2021)

Concerns mount over proposed CO2 pipeline. Read statements here
PEORIA, Ill. - One local official and one state lawmaker are among those expressing at least some concern about a proposed carbon dioxide collection pipeline that may go through parts of the area. Peo...
Will Stevenson Sep 27, 2023 (25 News)

UPDATE: Welch introduces bill to allow legislative staff to unionize
UPDATED 2:52 P.M. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch, D-Hillside, has filed legislation that would, for the first time in Illinois, authorize legislative s...
Will Stevenson Sep 27, 2023 House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch, D-Hillside (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Jerry Nowicki)

Residents moving in and settling into first completed homes at former Taft Homes site
PEORIA, Ill. - Erica Jones was a resident in the former Taft Homes on NE Adams St. in Peoria. And she says living conditions in her house at Taft were not the best. "It was a lot of maintenance issues...
TJ Carson Sep 27, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)

Teen arrested on weapons charges after chase with police
PEORIA, Ill. - Another arrest of juveniles in Peoria - this one after what started as a stolen vehicle ended as a stolen gun investigation. Police say they saw two juveniles that matched the descripti...
Will Stevenson Sep 27, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)

Peoria Police investigating 'suspicious' death
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say they're investigating a death they term "suspicious." Officers were called to an area near Arcadia and Peoria Avenues around 7:20 a.m. Wednesday where an adult man was...
Will Stevenson Sep 27, 2023 (Midwest Communications)

PPS board wants to hire more resource officers
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - The Board of Education at Peoria Public Schools wants resource officers to staff all 27 schools, instead of some schools having to share the same officer. The school board dir...
Julia Bradley Sep 27, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)

Peoria places limits on tobacco and nicotine sales
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria is putting new limits on tobacco sales, with higher fees and the elimination of unregulated synthetic nicotine. Peoria City Council on Tuesday night approved three measures; one ...
Julia Bradley Sep 27, 2023 Lindsay Fox / CC

Two arrested on weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria police say they put two people behind bars Monday after one of them was spotted going into a store with a gun. Police say officers noticed Khylee Davis, 22, going into a business...
Will Stevenson Sep 26, 2023 Khylee Davis (left) and Ramaj Mathews (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)

Grand jury charges man accused of fatal hit-and-run
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has indicted a man in connection with a fatal accident about a month ago. The grand jury filed a felony count of Leaving the Scene of an Accident Involving De...
Will Stevenson Sep 26, 2023 John Timothy, Jr. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)



