Category Archives: Local News
Kasper: Omicron subvariant responsible for recent rise in COVID cases
PEORIA, Ill. -- New York and California are seeing a significant rise of COVID-19 cases, as a subvariant of Omicron keeps popping up. Infectious Disease specialist Dr. Doug Kasper, with the University...
May 17, 2022 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Two children hospitalized with minor injuries after school bus crash
UPDATE: 12:07 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. -- We're learning more about a traffic crash that involved a Peoria Public School bus this morning. According to Peoria Police, two of the kids on board the school bus ...
May 17, 2022 (25 News)
UPDATE: PPD says missing woman is found
UPDATE: 12:08 p.m. Peoria Police now say Donita Purcell has been found and is doing well. ------------------------------- PEORIA, Ill. -- Police are asking for the public's help in finding a missing 4...
May 17, 2022 (Peoria Police Dept.)
Delay in court proceedings for teens charged with rural Mackinaw murder
PEKIN, Ill. - The case of four teenagers accused in a murder-for-hire plot in Tazewell County is being delayed again. This time, court records indicate, because attorneys for one of the teens -- Andre...
May 16, 2022 (25 News)
Man found dead while on morel mushroom-hunting trip
LACON, Ill. - A man from Washington who was reported missing was found dead while gone on a morel mushroom-hunting trip. 25 News reports the Marshall County Sheriffs Department identified the victim a...
May 16, 2022 Midwest Communications
East Peoria holds police officer memorial ceremony
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Before last year, it had been several years since the East Peoria Police Department had a memorial ceremony. They've started doing it again, in part to continue to remember one off...
May 16, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Gordon-Booth reacts to potential fund sweeps included in state budget
PEORIA, Ill. - If the state budget includes a fund sweep by Governor JB Pritzker to help pay for a new 988 mental health hotline, it's news to State Representative Jehan Gordon-Booth. We talked with G...
May 16, 2022 (Illinois General Assembly)
Disaster mitigation continues at stricken Bio-Urja Renewables plant
PEORIA, Ill. -- Asked where this emergency ranks for him on a scale of 1 to 10, Peoria's Interim Fire Chief Shawn Sollberger tells WMBD News, "...this would be an eleven." Sollberger, his firefighters...
May 16, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Bill Burr to perform at Peoria Civic Center
PEORIA, Ill. - A popular and not always clean comedian will include Peoria in the second half of his current tour. Bill Burr will bring his "Bill Burr (Slight Return)" tour to the Peoria Civic Center ...
May 16, 2022 Photo by Koury Angelo
PCCHD to begin vector surveillance for West Nile virus
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department will begin vector surveillance of mosquitoes and birds for West Nile virus beginning May 31 through October 15. Testing for West Nile will be d...
May 16, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
