Category Archives: Local News
State's Rainy Day Fund hits $1 billion for first time
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The State of Illinois' Rainy Day Fund has hit an important milestone. After a recent transfer, Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza says the fund now has $1 billion. "People have he...
Aug 11, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois Comptroller's Office)
Man charged with Animal Torture now wanted in a new case
DUNLAP, Ill. - Nicholas Prince remains a wanted man. That's according to Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins. The man wanted on a felony Animal Torture charge after a social media video allegedly show...
Aug 11, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
IL utilities promote calling 8-1-1 before you dig
JOLIET, Ill. -- August 11, or 8-11, is the day Illinois utilities like Illinois American Water and Ameren Illinois remind residents to call "JULIE" before they dig. "JULIE" stands for Joint Utility Lo...
Aug 11, 2022 (JULIE)
Butter Cow unveiled a day ahead of the Illinois State Fair
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The 2022 Illinois State Fair Butter Cow was unveiled on Wednesday at the State Fairgrounds in Springfield, a day ahead of the opening of this year's fair. This year's rendition fe...
Aug 11, 2022 (Illinois State Fair)
U.S. gas prices fall below $4 for first time since March
(Reuters) - The average price of U.S. retail gasoline fell below $4 per gallon on Thursday for the first time in months, giving some relief to drivers in the world's largest consumer of the fuel. The ...
Aug 11, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A gas pump is inserted inside an Audi vehicle at a Mobil gas station in Beverly Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, U.S., March 10, 2022. Picture taken March 10, 2022. REUTERS/Bing Guan
City approves amended agreement with Westlake Shopping Center
PEORIA, Ill. - Improvements to Peoria's Westlake Shopping Center are becoming a little more costly than previously thought. The Peoria City Council Tuesday approved an amendment to a Special Service A...
Aug 10, 2022 (File/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Juvenile arrested as part of Anti-Violence Initiative detail
UPDATED 4:49 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A juvenile has been arrested in connection with a recent armed robbery in Peoria. That's what Peoria Police says was the major development in another special enforceme...
Aug 10, 2022 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 1003 WMBD)
Social media video shows Bartonville firefighter using N-word
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - The Bartonville Fire Department is under fire again -- this time, after a years-old video resurfaced on social media allegedly showing the assistant chief using a racial slur. A pa...
Aug 10, 2022 (25 News via TikTok)
PPD: Officer uninjured, driver hospitalized after crash with patrol car
PEORIA, Ill. -- We're learning more about a traffic crash that involved a Peoria Police officer. PPD says it happened just after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of West McClure Avenue and Nor...
Aug 10, 2022 Midwest Communications
City Council approves violence prevention grant program
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City Council is okaying providing violence prevention grants to community organizations -- this, after rejecting the funding that would have gone to one Illinois-based group ...
Aug 10, 2022 Scott McLeod / CC
