Category Archives: Local News
Armed Forces celebration in the Heights Saturday
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. -- Local veterans are getting together in Peoria Heights on Saturday for the 6th Annual Armed Forces Celebration Day. Scott Corsaut, with American Legion Post #1111 in the Heights...
Sep 09, 2022 (Armed Forces Celebration Day via Facebook)
PPD: Man wanted for shots fired incident Wednesday
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police are looking for a man wanted in connection with a shots fired incident on Wednesday. 30-year-old Duran Gladney was identified as a suspect after police responded around 2...
Sep 09, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail 2019 File)
Caterpillar settles tax dispute with IRS from 2017
PEORIA, Ill. -- Caterpillar said Thursday it had reached a settlement of a long-standing tax dispute with the Internal Revenue Service that led to federal raids on several Peoria area plants, includin...
Sep 09, 2022 Caterpillar's former downtown Peoria headquarters (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
State's 'Illinois Made' awards celebrate small business -- and, this year, pandemic recovery
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Area has four businesses that are winners of an annual state award. The businesses are winners of the "Illinois Made" award -- celebrating locally-made products and locally-o...
Sep 08, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Rural Dunlap blaze sends up smoke plume seen for miles
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- One top Dunlap Fire Protection commander says fire crews didn't have much of a chance to stop flames which fully engulfed a home in rural Peoria County late Thursday. "It was ju...
Sep 08, 2022 (Dunlap Community Fire Protection District via Facebook)
Juvenile, already in custody, arrested for recent armed robberies
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria juvenile has been arrested in connection to two armed robberies that have happened in the last few months. Police say they interviewed a 17-year-old juvenile who was already in...
Sep 08, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
PPS: 'We've made progress.' PFT: 'We're disappointed.'
UPDATED 6:21 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Federation of Teachers and Peoria Public Schools are now giving two somewhat different accounts of the late-night negotiating session with a federal mediato...
Sep 08, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man arrested after argument on drug charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A report of "family trouble" called in to Peoria Police resulted in a man being arrested on felony drug charges. Peoria Police say they went to the home on Beacon Street in the North Va...
Sep 08, 2022 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Police investigating shooting; one arrest made
UPDATED 6:57 a.m. 9/9 PEORIA, Ill. - We're learning more about one of two separate shootings that happened in South Peoria during the mid-afternoon hours Thursday. Peoria Police say the first shooting...
Sep 08, 2022 (25 News)
"Little Shop of Horrors" comes to Peoria Players this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- A well known musical is making its way to the Peoria Players stage this weekend. "Little Shop of Horrors" opens Friday night. The story centers on an awkward young man, Seymour, who ra...
Sep 08, 2022 (Peoria Players Theatre)
