Category Archives: Local News
Peoria councilman makes move for at-large seat
PEORIA, Ill. -- He says he will remain "an independent voice for the community" at the Peoria City Council. At-Large councilman Kiran Velpula makes that promise in announcing his campaign for another ...
Nov 17, 2022
SAFE-T Act changes could be forthcoming, 'technical' in nature
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Changes may yet come to the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform before its Jan. 1 effective date, but some of its major proponents in the General Assembly sa...
Nov 16, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Amtrak cancels some Illinois train routes through mid-January
CHICAGO, Ill. - Amtrak is cancelling two Illinois routes -- one from Chicago and one to Chicago -- through the middle of January. The passenger rail service blames staffing shortages for the cancellat...
Nov 16, 2022 (Mike Armstrong/Amtrak)
Ground broken on new Peoria County HHS building
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County officials are using some of $34 million in COVID-19-related funds to build a new facility combining several departments. Ground has been broken on a new Health and Human S...
Nov 16, 2022 (City of Peoria Government via Facebook)
Bond set in alleged murder of Peoria teen
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria teenager is being held in jail on $1.5 million bond for allegedly shooting and killing another teenager a week and a half ago. Court records indicate Erick Jackson, 18, made hi...
Nov 16, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
PFD: Electrical fire leads to thousands in damage to Peoria home
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria fire officials say a home sustained $90,000 dollars in damage as the result of an electrical fire Wednesday afternoon. It happened around noon at a two-story house at 6875 North...
Nov 16, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
IDOT: 'Winter Weather, Get it Together'
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The weather we've seen in central Illinois the past few days might be a dress rehearsal for what's to come -- at least, as far as the Illinois Department of Transportation is conce...
Nov 16, 2022 Yellowstone National Park
Peoria man gets decades in prison on federal meth-related charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man described by federal prosecutors as the leader of an extensive methamphetamine conspiracy will spend the next three decades in jail. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Christo...
Nov 16, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Victim identified in Pekin homicide as suspect remains jailed
PEKIN, Ill. - We're learning more about the death of a Pekin man, days after he was severely beaten and as the man accused of doing it now faces murder charges. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley ...
Nov 16, 2022 (Tazewell County Jail via 25 News)
GOP chooses new leadership in General Assembly as Dems retain control
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Republicans chose new leadership for their caucuses in the Illinois General Assembly on Tuesday night, while the two Democratic leaders have each announced ...
Nov 16, 2022 Rep. Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, and Sen. John Curran, R-Downers Grove, were chosen Tuesday to be the minority leaders of their respective caucuses in the Illinois General Assembly. (Capitol News Illinois file photos)
