Category Archives: Local News
Credit union closing Peoria branch
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - A Peoria-area banking institution is closing one of its branches, giving technology as one of the reasons. Redbrand Credit Union says it's closing its Peoria location at the Shoppe...
Mar 29, 2023 (Redbrand Credit Union)
Polling place change ahead of next Tuesday's election
PEORIA, Ill. - A heads-up for some Peoria voters, with Election Day next week. The Peoria County Election Commission says if your polling place is Woodruff Career and Technical Center, that spot is be...
Mar 29, 2023 Midwest Communications
Man, wanted by police, arrested on numerous weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man who was wanted by police is now in custody on numerous weapons-related charges. Police say 22-year-old Dwayne Daye was arrested Tuesday afternoon on a warrant, and is charg...
Mar 29, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria City/County Racial Justice and Equity Commission releases report
PEORIA, Ill. - "Not a flattering account." That's how one member of the Peoria Racial Justice and Equity Commission describes their first report, showing more than obvious disparities in virtually eve...
Mar 29, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
'If it ain't broke, don't fix it': Secretly recorded videos show ComEd lobbyists discussing alleged bribery scheme
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Longtime Commonwealth Edison contract lobbyist Jay Doherty thought he was merely reminiscing and giving advice to a colleague and friend in a February 2019 meet...
Mar 29, 2023 Former ComEd lobbyists Mike McClain (left) and Jay Doherty are pictured in secretly recorded videos from 2019 that were shown to a jury Tuesday in their federal trial for accused bribery and corruption. (Screenshots from video presented as evidence in court)
South Peoria house fire deemed arson
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Fire officials are investigating yet another arson -- this time to a home in South Peoria. Peoria firefighters went to a vacant home near Livingston and Grinnell around 5:20 Wedn...
Mar 29, 2023 Midwest Communications
Former Peoria City Council at-large member passes away
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City Council took time at Tuesday night's meeting to honor and remember a former at-large member. Timothy J. Newlin passed away on Friday, March 24th at his home surrounded b...
Mar 29, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Wright & Salmon Mortuary)
Security authority discusses tactics to make schools safer from attacks
PEORIA, Ill. -- Following a deadly mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, school security is top of mind. 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a former student of Covenant School, a private Christian sc...
Mar 29, 2023 (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via Facebook)
Peoria Fire responds to early morning fire at apartment complex
PEORIA, Ill. - No one was injured after a patio fire at an apartment complex early Wednesday morning. Peoria Fire received a call just before 2:30 A.M. to the Haymeadow Apartments on West Haymeadow re...
Mar 29, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Calls for action as panel releases data showing deep racial disparity in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City Council received data Tuesday night about racial inequities in the city and in Peoria County that one elected official said was "very sobering" and what the mayor descr...
Mar 29, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
