Category Archives: Local News
Teenager arrested on weapons charges after police chase in South Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police arrested a teenager on weapons charges after a brief chase Tuesday afternoon in South Peoria. Officers attempted to make contact with a 13-year-old who was a wanted subjec...
Aug 16, 2023 Midwest Communications
Peoria woman accused by grand jury of having sex with a minor
UPDATED 2:09 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A now-former employee of Peoria's Friendship House was indicted by a Grand Jury on Tuesday for Criminal Sexual Assault, a class 1 felony. Jasmine Lamon, 22, according ...
Aug 16, 2023 Jasmine Lamon (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Friendship House/LinkedIn)
Peoria crews battle garage fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria crews were called to a garage fire early Wednesday morning in the area of E. Corrington and N. Maryland Avenue. Firefighters arrived just before 1:30 a.m., finding a detached gar...
Aug 16, 2023 D4E / CC
Gun industry group challenges new firearms marketing restrictions
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A gun trade association has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Illinois law that restricts how gun dealers and manufacturers market their products. T...
Aug 15, 2023 Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul listens during a May House floor debate of a bill subjecting gun dealers and manufacturers to civil action if they use deceptive marketing practices. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Reaction to prison sentence for the man who firebombed Peoria's Planned Parenthood facility
PEORIA, Ill. - "This was an attack on all of us." That's how Congressman Eric Sorensen described the firebombing of the Peoria Planned Parenthood facility, not long after the man who did it got a ten ...
Aug 15, 2023 Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-East Moline), and Jennifer Welch, CEO of Planned Parenthood Illinois, speak Tuesday at a news conference outside the federal court building in downtown Peoria. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
New Illinois law allows time spent at work-related learning events to count towards school attendance for students
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A new state law will mean a day on the farm or other learning activities for Illinois students will not affect their attendance record. Instead of being marked absent for attending...
Aug 15, 2023 (State of Illinois)
Man who firebombed Peoria's Planned Parenthood clinic sentenced to ten years in federal prison
PEORIA, Ill. - A Chillicothe man was sentenced to more than what prosecutors wanted after admitting to a firebombing of the Planned Parenthood facility in Peoria earlier this year. A federal judge Tue...
Aug 15, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
'The feds are still after me and our Friend:' jury sees email exchanges between Madigan confidants
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - After the FBI raided his western Illinois home in May 2019, Mike McClain - an influential lobbyist and close confidant of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madiga...
Aug 15, 2023 Tim Mapes, the former chief of staff for longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Monday. He is standing trial for perjury and obstruction of justice. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Shooting overnight leaves one injured in Peoria. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Police responded to shots fired overnight in the area of N. Lehman and N. Great Oak Roads in Peoria. PPD Spokesperson Semone Roth says just before 3 a.m., officers were flagged down and...
Aug 15, 2023 Midwest Communications
PPS Board hears status of school safety, class size concerns
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - While Peoria's Public School Board heard an update on school safety, they didn't touch on the fights that have reportedly occurred within the first two weeks of school. 25News...
Aug 15, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
