Category Archives: Local News
Ali: No deal between City, Civic Center, Rivermen yet
UPDATED 5:07 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The rumors of things getting better between the Peoria Civic Center and the Peoria Rivermen may have been greatly exaggerated. Peoria City Council Member Dennis Cyr to...
Feb 17, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Doctor: Form of dementia like in Bruce Willis could happen to anyone
PEORIA, Ill. - The form of dementia that has been diagnosed in actor Bruce Willis could happen to anyone. That's according to Doctor Deepak Nair with OSF HealthCare's Illinois Neurological Institute, ...
Feb 17, 2023 (OSF HealthCare)
861 area code to be issued starting next week
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Central Illinois residents will be seeing a new area code on local calls in the near future. The Illinois Commerce Commission says that starting on February 24th, new phone numbers...
Feb 17, 2023 Leonid Mamchenkov / CC
Man pleads guilty to causing Planned Parenthood explosion
PEORIA, Ill. - A Chillicothe man did something suspects rarely do at an arraignment hearing: plead guilty. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Tyler Massengill, 32, pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting t...
Feb 17, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Woman pleads guilty to fatal 2021 West Peoria crash
PEORIA, Ill. - A Washington woman has pleaded guilty to her role in an accident that claimed the life of a man on a motorized bicycle almost two years ago. Peoria County Court records indicate Destine...
Feb 16, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail May 2020)
Man enters plea in fatal January crash
PEORIA, Ill. - A Hanna City man has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of causing a fatal accident near the Shoppes at Grand Prairie last month. Jeremy Perry, 43, was arraigned Thursday after ...
Feb 16, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria Police conduct another special enforcement detail
PEORIA, Ill. - Eight more people were taken into custody because of another special enforcement detail conducted by Peoria Police that's a part of the police chief's anti-violence initiative. Chief Er...
Feb 16, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Pritzker hits the road to sell his budget plan
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - One day after delivering his budget address, Gov. JB Pritzker took to the road Thursday to rally support for his proposed "Smart Start" program to expand ac...
Feb 16, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at a preschool in Springfield in favor of his budget proposal to increase early childhood education program spending by $250 million. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Victim in Saturday evening shooting dies
PEORIA, Ill. - A shooting reported Saturday evening in Peoria has turned deadly, and may now be the city's second homicide of the year. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Davion Parker, 18, was ...
Feb 16, 2023 Midwest Communications
Baseball player/broadcaster Tim McCarver dies at 81
ST. LOUIS - A longtime baseball player-turned baseball broadcaster has died. Major League Baseball says Tim McCarver died Thursday at age 81 due to heart failure. McCarver started his major league car...
Feb 16, 2023 Marianne O'Leary / CC
