Category Archives: Local News
Another council member wants to be Pekin Mayor
PEKIN, Ill. - Another member of the Pekin City Council wants the top job. Dave Nutter has announced a run for mayor of Pekin, and will join Council Member Becky Cloyd on the 2023 election ballot. It i...
Sep 21, 2022 (Dave Nutter for Mayor via Facebook)
2 Dunlap schools named National Blue Ribbon Schools
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The state says two schools in the Dunlap School District are among the best in the nation. The Illinois State Board of Education says Hickory Grove and Ridgeview Elementary Schools...
Sep 21, 2022 (Dunlap School District)
Grand jury files charges in several cases
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury met Tuesday and filed charges in a number of cases -- adding charges in some cases, not filing charges in others, and affirming originally-filed charges in mo...
Sep 21, 2022 (1470 $ 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Police want public's help solving armed robbery
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are looking for your help in investigating a late-evening armed robbery late Tuesday. Police say it happened at a business near Starr Street and Westmoreland Avenue at aro...
Sep 21, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Fire Chief announces $4M in federal grants to hire new firefighters
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Fire Chief Shawn Sollberger is celebrating confirmation that his department will indeed receive a massive federal grant which will go toward funding much needed new hires. Sollb...
Sep 21, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Residents asked to vote on Peoria Co. flag designs
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- The Peoria County Board is asking residents to vote for their favorite county flag design. Voting is going on through October 2nd online. Residents without internet access can v...
Sep 21, 2022 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Update: Man shot near Taft Homes dies
UPDATED 3:44 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A former Peoria man is the victim of the city's 18th homicide of the year. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says preliminary autopsy results on Christopher Tillman,...
Sep 21, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
East Peoria Council passes resolution demanding revisions to SAFE-T Act
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- East Peoria elected leaders are adding their collective voice to the growing chorus of opposition to Illinois' upcoming implementation of the SAFE-T Act. East Peoria Council membe...
Sep 21, 2022 (Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Memphis teacher's death while running spurs Peoria Police safety clinic
PEORIA, Ill. - The death of Memphis-area school teacher Eliza Fletcher while she was out on an early morning run earlier this month prompted Peoria Police to want to show local runners and walkers wha...
Sep 20, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Two arrested after drugs, cash found in Lowpoint home
LOWPOINT, Ill. - Two people were arrested after police seized drugs and cash from a home in rural Woodford County Tuesday morning. Woodford County Sheriffs Chief Deputy Dennis Tipsword says deputies a...
Sep 20, 2022 Michael Kennedy (left) and Gary Coclasure (Woodford County Jail)
