Category Archives: Local News
Teen indicted by grand jury on weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury did not file all the charges a Peoria teen was arrested on in connection with an allegedly stolen vehicle earlier this month. The grand jury this week indicte...
Oct 27, 2022 (1470 & 100/3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
School report card: Illinois gaining graduates, Peoria schools gaining ground
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The state's annual school report card has been released and it shows there were more high school graduates across Illinois this past year than any school year in the past decade. ...
Oct 27, 2022 Midwest Communications
State: Peoria-area unemployment continues declines
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the jobless average for all fourteen metro areas of the state is down from the year before, and that includes Peoria. Bureau of ...
Oct 27, 2022 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
Peoria Riverfront Museum achieves 'rock star' status with geode, $1m donation
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Riverfront Museum continues to celebrate its tenth anniversary -- this time, in two really big ways. One of those ways is by having acquired a ten foot tall amethyst geode fr...
Oct 27, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
TOWN HALL INFO: Public input needed on Peoria recreational cannabis regulations
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria city elected leaders want more public input as they consider refining the city's rules around marijuana dispensaries. Some of the questions the city still wants answered include...
Oct 27, 2022 (File-1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy)
Man pleads not guilty to West Peoria double homicide
PEORIA, Ill. - A man whose listed address is in Mississippi has pleaded not guilty to charges he killed his wife and stepson in West Peoria almost a month ago. Peoria County Court records indicate Ric...
Oct 27, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Two more teens charged in violent vehicle theft at UnityPoint
PEORIA, Ill. -- Two more teenagers have been arrested in connection with a violent purse snatching and vehicle theft from earlier this week. It happened Monday night, when police say a group of juveni...
Oct 27, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Peoria crews respond to residential fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called just before 2 a.m. Thursday to a home on S. Madison Park Terrace, near W. Butler and W. Kettelle. Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Hascall said smoke was seen ...
Oct 27, 2022 liz west / CC
Caterpillar posts higher adjusted profit on strong equipment demand
(Reuters) -Heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc posted a rise in third-quarter profit on Thursday as robust demand, low inventories and raised prices helped it mute the impact of higher material and ...
Oct 27, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Caterpillar Inc. equipment is on display for sale at a retail site in San Diego, California, U.S., March 3, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Tazewell Co. election judges receive pay increase
PEKIN, Ill. -- Election judges in Tazewell County will be paid more this year after the county board Wednesday night unanimously agreed to give them a raise. The county government will pay judges $200...
Oct 27, 2022 Tazewell County Courthouse (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
