Category Archives: Local News
Illinois closer to eliminating cash bail with new law
CHICAGO, Ill. (FOX News)--Illinois will be the first state in the nation to end cash bail. That means people charged with a crime are going to be released essentially with just a promise to show up fo...
Sep 12, 2022 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Flash floods hit Chicago metro area, stranding cars
(Reuters) - The National Weather Service on Sunday issued a flash flood warning for part of northeastern Illinois including Chicago's northern metro area, after heavy rains flooded viaducts, stranded ...
Sep 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A man takes a picture against the Chicago skyline as the steam fog rises off Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, January 28, 2014. REUTERS/Jeff Haynes/File Photo
Coroner: Deceased Hanna City motorcyclist wasn't wearing a helmet
PEORIA, Ill. -- The coroner's office is identifying a victim involved in a deadly early Saturday motorcycle crash. It happened around 2:44 a.m. yesterday near the intersection of Washington and Harris...
Sep 11, 2022 Midwest Communications
State: New COVID cases keep dropping, therapeutics have helped avoid hospitalizations in recent months
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Public Health continues to report lower new case numbers of COVID-19, and for some of those who have had it recently, widely used therapeutic treatments ...
Sep 10, 2022 (Centers for Disease Control)
Four taken to hospital following Central Peoria fire
PEORIA, Ill. - The cause of a fire that caused damage to a Central Peoria home continues to be under investigation. The's according to Peoria firefighters, who say it took more than an hour to get the...
Sep 10, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria County Board approves funding for Peoria to Chicago passenger rail service application
PEORIA, Ill. - Some Peoria County Board members weren't happy with it being rushed through committee and to them, but in the end, it didn't matter. The board Thursday approved spending $50,000 in supp...
Sep 10, 2022 (City of Peoria)
U.S. freight railroads prepare for potential strike disruption
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Major U.S. freight railroads said on Friday they were preparing for a possible strike and service disruption a week before a deadline in protracted labor talks. BNSF, owned by B...
Sep 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A Union Pacific rail car is parked at the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) Toronto Yard in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada March 20, 2022. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo
Pekin man sentenced to minimum in federal prison on meth, cocaine charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Pekin man will spend the next decade in prison after being found to have methamphetamine and cocaine in his possession. Court records indicate Cody Mammen, 32, was sentenced Thursday ...
Sep 10, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Bond set for man accused of Thursday shooting
PEORIA, Ill. - Bond has been set at $500,000 in the case of a Peoria man who allegedly opened fire Thursday afternoon, injuring a juvenile girl. Peoria County Court records indicate a judge Friday als...
Sep 09, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Bustos and LaHood talk agriculture and air traffic control towers in Peoria visit
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's representatives in Congress -- one Democrat and one Republican -- are celebrating a bipartisan victory that benefits the Peoria International Airport. Congressmen Cheri Bustos ...
Sep 09, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
