Category Archives: Local News
PPS board, parents discuss "inappropriate object" at Monday's meeting
PEORIA, Ill. -- Communication was the main issue among the group of Kellar Primary School parents expressing their frustration with the school board following an incident in late April on a Peoria Pub...
May 9, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Three-vehicle crash causes at least one injury
PEORIA, Ill. - Three people were injured after an accident at the Interstate 74 Sterling off-ramp. Peoria Firefighters say the crash happened just after 4:00 p.m. Monday. The three-vehicle accident in...
May 8, 2023 (Photo taken from Illinois Department of Transportation traffic camera)
Former City Council member remembers Richard Carver
PEORIA, Ill. - Very personable. That's how former Peoria City Council member, Lieutenant Colonel Lester Bergsten, remembers former Mayor Richard Carver, who died in Florida Friday at age 85 after an i...
May 8, 2023 (City of Peoria via Facebook)
Two arrested on Mob Action, Battery, other charges
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peoria residents were arrested, but records indicate they're now out of jail -- after police say they were seen pointing guns at each other Saturday afternoon, and assaulted another...
May 8, 2023 George Lewis (left) and Dayshaun Smullin (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria man arrested Saturday on multiple weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is facing multiple weapon charges after being arrested Saturday evening. Peoria Police says a License Plate Reader helped located a vehicle associated with a wanted subject...
May 8, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Police investigate attempted ATM theft
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are trying to figure out who tried to steal an ATM in the area of the Shoppes at Grand Prairie. Police say it happened around 1:45 a.m. Monday on West American Prairie Dri...
May 8, 2023 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
East Peoria FD promotions include historic first
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The East Peoria Fire Department made three promotions official on Monday, one of which was a first. Veronica Marmitt was the first woman promoted to assistant chief in the departme...
May 8, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Firefighters battle electrical fire Sunday night in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria crews were called to a home on N. North Street, near W. Lake, just before 11 p.m. Sunday on reports of a fire. Light smoke could be seen coming from the exterior of the home. Ba...
May 8, 2023 D4E / CC
Downed branches, power outages the story of Sunday's severe weather
PEORIA, Ill. - There weren't a lot of reports of major damage from the second round of severe weather to hit the Tri-Counties during the weekend, but most of the damage reports were of the same proble...
May 7, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
11 injured in Peoria rollover crash
PEORIA, Ill. - As many as eleven people were injured when a vehicle overturned Sunday afternoon in the Central Peoria area. Peoria Fire says the rollover crash happened at Knoxville and Corrington. Th...
May 7, 2023 (Social media via 25 News)
