Category Archives: Local News
OSF, ISU collaborate to look at future of technology and healthcare
NORMAL, Ill. - They've partnered together for years, but now the collaboration between Peoria-based OSF HealthCare and Illinois State University is growing. The two are starting the "Connected Communi...
Mar 23, 2023 (OSF HealthCare)
State issues strep throat warning after five Illinois children die
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State health officials are sounding an alarm over an increasing number of strep throat cases in children. It's specifically "Group A" strep throat, and has claimed the lives of fiv...
Mar 23, 2023 NIAID / CC
Man goes to prison for federal drug, weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is going to prison for 35 years after he was sentenced Tuesday for eight different felony drug and weapons offenses. Federal prosecutors say that's what a judge gave Harold...
Mar 23, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail 2020)
Three arrested after guns found in car
PEORIA, Ill. - Three people are in trouble with the law after weapons allegedly were found in the car they were in. Peoria Police say they stopped a vehicle Tuesday night at 7:42 p.m. in the 1200 bloc...
Mar 23, 2023 Damar Watts (left) and Rashaard Nunn (right) (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
ICC's 'Cradle to Career' launching now
PEORIA, Ill. - An initiative spearheaded by Illinois Central College and funded with federal and private grant money for this year is beginning now, looking at how poverty in South Peoria can be reduc...
Mar 23, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Secretary of State's office gives out grants to combat carjacking and vehicle thefts
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Peoria-area is receiving funding to try and combat carjackings and vehicle thefts. The Greater Peoria Auto Crimes Task Force is receiving $2,150,700 in grant money from Secreta...
Mar 23, 2023 (Illinois Secretary of State via Facebook)
Union workers can't sue under Illinois biometric law, court rules
(Reuters) - Illinois' top court on Thursday said U.S. labor law bars unionized workers from suing their employers for violations of the state's biometric privacy law, which can expose companies to mas...
Mar 23, 2023 (Illinois Supreme Court)
House passes bill prohibiting book bans
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois House passed a bill Wednesday that would prohibit libraries from banning books or other material because of partisan or doctrinal pressure, pro...
Mar 23, 2023 Rep. Anne Stava-Murray, D-Naperville, speaks on the Illinois House floor Wednesday in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Utility's indicted CEO considered Madigan when hiring, witness says
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - In April 2017, a top staffer in then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's office was looking to leave his job after a combined nearly 18 years working for t...
Mar 23, 2023 The Dirksen Federal Courthouse is pictured in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
Bard Optical 'merging' Campustown and Metro Centre locations at Metro Centre
PEORIA, Ill. - Another business is leaving the Campustown shopping center near Bradley University - the second business to announce that this month. Bard Optical, however, doesn't exactly say it's clo...
Mar 22, 2023 (Bard Optical via Facebook)
