Category Archives: Local News
Man arrested for downtown parking garage robbery
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have the man in custody they say robbed a woman late Monday night in the Civic Center Plaza parking garage. Police say John H. Johnson, 27, was arrested Wednesday afternoo...
Feb 9, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Special delivery: Amazon's North Pekin fulfillment center is officially open
NORTH PEKIN, Ill. - The first packages are being delivered to Peoria-area homes from Amazon's new fulfillment center in North Pekin. The ribbon was cut Thursday morning on the facility -- only employi...
Feb 9, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
On Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, advocates spotlight ongoing racial disparities
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois lawmakers and advocates commemorated National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Tuesday, calling attention to the disproportionate impact the disease ha...
Feb 9, 2023 Yaa Simpson, or Sista Yaa, an HIV/AIDS community advocate and epidemiologist for The Association of Clinical Trial Services, speaks at a news conference at the Capitol about the racial disparities in new HIV/AIDS diagnoses. Data from AIDSVu, an interactive data tool presented by Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, showed in 2020 Black people comprised 52.1 percent of HIV diagnoses in Illinois despite making up roughly 15 percent of the population. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Arrest made in West Peoria homicide
WEST PEORIA, Ill. - A Decatur man has been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing another Decatur man in West Peoria last month. Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins says Lamentae Turner, 22, was ...
Feb 8, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
New Amazon fulfillment center opens in North Pekin Thursday morning
NORTH PEKIN, Ill. - A major company will open its first Peoria-area location Thursday morning. Amazon opens its fulfillment center in North Pekin at 9:00 a.m. Thursday. Despite the rainy, windy weathe...
Feb 8, 2023 (25 News)
UPDATE: North Valley fire displaces six
UPDATED 6:32 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters spent the late afternoon Wednesday at a North Valley home damaged by fire. Crews were called to the home near Madison and Morgan, near the Friendsh...
Feb 8, 2023 (25 News)
Lawmaker introduces bill to address alleged car insurance discrimination
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A lawmaker is introducing a bill in Springfield addressing something he says Illinois is one of few states to not already address. State Representative Will Guzzardi of Chicago's b...
Feb 8, 2023 Dan Keck
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons to perform at Civic Center
PEORIA, Ill. - He's described as a "true American legend." And, at 88 years old, he is still going strong. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons will perform at the Peoria Civic Center Theater August 11....
Feb 8, 2023 fishhawk
Grand Jury files Child Porn charge against Dunlap man
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has indicted a Dunlap man on a Class-X felony charge of Child Pornography. The grand jury filed the charge Tuesday against Alex Doran, 26. When he was origina...
Feb 8, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria Bed, Bath, & Beyond store to close
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Bed, Bath, and Beyond store isn't going to make it. New Jersey-based Bed, Bath, and Beyond confirms the Peoria store in the Metro Centre will close. A specific date is not kn...
Feb 8, 2023 (Julia Bradley/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
