Category Archives: Local News
Fire damages West Peoria home
WEST PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Firefighters believe the cause of a blaze at a West Peoria home Thursday evening is electrical in nature. Crews were first called to a home on Kickapoo Terrace near Sterling...
May 12, 2022 Midwest Communications
Peoria firefighters back at former ADM plant for significant flare up
UPDATE: 3:09 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters are once again on the scene of a developing emergency at BioUrja Renewables near downtown Peoria. The response comes two days since flames caused ...
May 12, 2022 (Cooper Banks/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Illinois American Water cuts ribbon on new solar panel field
PEORIA, Ill. - Your water in Peoria is being sent to you using some more "green energy." Illinois American Water Thursday cut a ribbon on what they call a 2.3 megawatt "large-scale solar energy system...
May 12, 2022 (Illinois American Water via Facebook)
Gordon-Booth: $1.5 m in state money will create 'P Media' at PHS
PEORIA, Ill. - $1.5 million in state budget money is going to Peoria Public Schools -- specifically, Peoria High School -- to create something that might end up putting some of us in the media, out of...
May 12, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Kitchen Cooked plant transitioning to distribution facility
FARMINGTON, Ill. - A longtime staple made in Fulton County will not be made there any more. The parent company of Kitchen Cooked Potato Chips says the chips will not be made in Farmington any longer, ...
May 12, 2022 Kitchen Cooked/Utz Snacks
IDOT crews spend hours repairing Wednesday road buckle on Route 6
PEORIA, Ill. -- Crews working with the Illinois Department of Transportation spent "several hours" repairing a major roadway buckle that happened late Wednesday as many local commuters were making the...
May 12, 2022 Cars drive along Tonnele Ave at the end of a road work in Union City, New Jersey, U.S. March 31, 2021. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Fire overnight in Peoria deemed arson
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters responded to a house fire just before 1 a.m. Thursday in the area of Haungs Avenue and NE Adams Street. Crews found smoke and fire in the front room of the home. Th...
May 12, 2022 Midwest Communications
Luft to Chamber: The 'state of Pekin' is good
PEKIN, Ill. - "Pekin is doing really good." Those were some of the words of its Mayor -- Mark Luft -- during a Pekin Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon Wednesday. Luft told the crowd things would be do...
May 11, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Felon gets federal prison on weapons charge
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man who originally faced several state charges following an incident last September is going to federal prison for just one charge. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Alante Jacks...
May 11, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Man gets federal prison on child porn charge
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is going to federal prison for fourteen years in prison for having a video containing child pornography on his cell phone. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Randall Ray IV, 3...
May 11, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
