Category Archives: Local News
AMT, PFD can make some traffic signal changes in emergencies
PEORIA, Ill. - New technology is available in ambulances in Peoria that will allow them to control traffic signals when they're on emergency calls. Advanced Medical Transport vehicles are equipped wit...
Mar 14, 2023 (Advanced Medical Transport)
Peoria-area Catholic okay to eat meat this Friday during Lent
PEORIA, Ill. - Good news for Peoria-area Catholics -- you can eat meat this Friday. While not every Catholic Diocese does it, the Catholic Diocese of Peoria says given past practices, Bishop Louis Tyl...
Mar 14, 2023 (Catholic Diocese of Peoria via YouTube)
Fire deemed arson, but 'mental health crisis' to blame
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Firefighters say a small fire Monday afternoon was arson, but not what you typically think of. Firefighters went to a home near Starr and Folkers for the fire, where officials sa...
Mar 13, 2023 (25 News)
Man gets prison for shooting, police standoff
PEORIA, Ill. - He no longer faces Attempted Murder charges, but a Peoria man will go to prison for most of the next two decades after a shooting incident and standoff with police a year and a half ago...
Mar 13, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail October 2021)
Pritzker signs measure guaranteeing five days paid leave for Illinoisans
UPDATED 4:23 P.M. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 208 into law Monday, ensuring at least 40 hours of paid leave for Illinois workers. Effective Jan. 1, ...
Mar 13, 2023 (State of Illinois)
Metamora wins state championship in basketball
METAMORA, Ill. - For the first time in school history, Metamora is a state champion in basketball. The boys basketball team achieved that feat Saturday evening by defeating Chicago Simeon in the IHSA ...
Mar 13, 2023 (Metamora High School Boys Basketball via Twitter)
Bill aims to guarantee youth sentenced to life in prison a chance at parole after 40 years
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois lawmakers advanced a bill last week that would effectively abolish life sentences for any incarcerated individual who was under the age of 21 when ...
Mar 13, 2023 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Local gas prices higher than last week, lower than last year
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in Peoria have gone up in the last week. That's according to both AAA and GasBuddy.com. AAA's Peoria-Pekin average currently sits at $3.57 for a gallon of unleaded -- more th...
Mar 13, 2023 Orin Zebest / CC
Fly PIA, but parking lots nearly all full
PEORIA, Ill. - Spring Break is almost too good of a thing for the Peoria International Airport. Airport officials say the main parking lot at the airport is completely full. Airport officials say the ...
Mar 13, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Shots fired near West Peoria bar leaves three injured
UPDATED 8:22 A.M. WEST PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria County deputies were called to the area near KG's Sports Bar & Grill on W. Farmington Road in West Peoria around 1:40 a.m. Monday morning on reports o...
Mar 13, 2023 Midwest Communications
