Category Archives: Local News
OSF Healthcare signs letter of intent with LaSalle-Peru-based hospital
PEORIA, Ill. - OSF Healthcare will be expanding its reach north. OSF and St. Margaret's Health, based in the LaSalle-Peru area, have signed a letter of intent. It will allow for OSF to purchase assets...
May 5, 2023 (OSF HealthCare)
UPDATE: Assault weapons ban back in place for now after appellate court's order
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The assault weapons ban that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law in January is back in force after a federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a temporary inju...
May 5, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
PPD investigating Friday morning death
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called early Friday morning to the area of W. Wiswall Street and W. Lincoln Avenue on reports of a person on fire. PPD Spokesperson Semone Roth says officers arrived...
May 5, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Car with suspected shooter crashes into home
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are looking for someone who might have used a gun near Northwoods Mall early Thursday morning. Police say an officer parked on War Memorial Drive near the mall heard the s...
May 4, 2023 Midwest Communications
Man, arrested for sixth time this year, accused of attempted arson
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - A Hanna City man has been arrested for the sixth time this year in Peoria County -- this time for allegedly attempting to set a home on fire. The Peoria County Sheriffs Departmen...
May 4, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail March 2023)
California man charged with defrauding Central Illinois investors
URBANA, Ill. - A California man and his company are accused of defrauding Central Illinois residents out of more than $20 million. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Brett Bartlett, 37, and his companies...
May 4, 2023 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Illinois fallen officers memorialized at ceremony in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Officers in Illinois who made the ultimate sacrifice in the past year were honored Thursday in Springfield. The annual ceremony took place at the Illinois Peace Officer Memorial sc...
May 4, 2023 (Illinois Fraternal Order of Police)
East Peoria Jenny Craig not closing -managers
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Weight loss company Jenny Craig is still planning on closing a number of locations, but the East Peoria location isn't one of them. That's according to managers of that store. They...
May 4, 2023 (Julia Bradley/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Teen convicted of 2022 carjacking
PEORIA, Ill. - A local jury has convicted a Peoria teenager of his role in a carjacking almost a year and a half ago. Peoria County Court records indicate Dayvon Dillard, now 19, was convicted Wednesd...
May 4, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Teen injured in Eastside Centre stabbing
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Police in East Peoria say an eighth grade student is "pretty fortunate" after being stabbed during a fight Saturday. Police say both the student and what was termed a non-current F...
May 4, 2023 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
