Category Archives: Local News
UPDATE: One dead, one injured following crash near Grand Prairie
UPDATED 9:56 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - One person is confirmed dead after a two-vehicle accident near the Shoppes at Grand Prairie late Wednesday afternoon. Police say the crash happened just prior to 4:30 ...
Nov 30, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Two arrested, including one fugitive, by Peoria Police
PEORIA, Ill. - A pair of arrests by Peoria Police Wednesday included a long-wanted fugitive. Police say Nathan McKinney, 31, and Kenneth Hobbs, 38, were arrested Wednesday near MacArthur and Jefferson...
Nov 30, 2022 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Police investigate fatal accident outside Peoria Civic Center
UPDATED 10:06 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating a fatal car-versus-pedestrian accident downtown outside the Peoria Civic Center. Police closed the area of Jefferson Street from Fulto...
Nov 30, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Investigation into illness outbreak at Washington Monical's Pizza continues
WASHINGTON, Ill. - We're starting to learn what it is that might have caused people to feel ill after eating at the Monical's Pizza location in Washington within the last week or so. The Tazewell Coun...
Nov 30, 2022 (25 News)
Autopsy conducted in fatal rural Morton crash
MORTON, Ill. - We're learning more about the victim in Tuesday's fatal crash in Morton. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley says it was an 82-year-old woman from Pekin who was pronounced dead at th...
Nov 30, 2022 (25 News)
Changes to cash bail statute surface before Thursday's planned adjournment
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Two days before lawmakers were scheduled to adjourn for the year, one of the lead negotiators of the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform filed a long-awaited...
Nov 30, 2022 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Portion of U.S. 150 to be renamed after slain sheriffs deputy
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Knox County sheriffs deputy killed in the line of duty in April will have part of a highway named after him. Lawmakers during the fall veto session approved a resolution naming p...
Nov 30, 2022 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Photo via Facebook)
PPD, churches to host another gun buyback event
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say they're doing it again soon. Police and two local churches are partnering on December 10th to hold another gun buyback event. After a similar event November 19th ended...
Nov 30, 2022
Expert at Peoria Farm Show: Corn and soybeans look to have good years in 2023
PEORIA, Ill. - One agriculture expert spending part of his week at the Greater Peoria Farm Show says he's feeling pretty bullish on corn and soybeans in the next planting and harvesting seasons. Todd ...
Nov 30, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Republican rival to join Illinois Democrats' transition team
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. -- Incoming Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has announced he will bring a former political rival on board his transition team. One-time Republican candidate for Secreta...
Nov 30, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Friends of Dan Brady)
