Category Archives: Local News
Sheriff: Public tip results in arrest for fatal New Years Day hit-and-run
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Sheriffs Department says the public gets credit for information that led to the arrest of a Hanna City man for allegedly causing a fatal hit-and-run accident. The Sher...
Jan 05, 2022 2019 mug shot from Peoria County Jail
Peoria County set to upgrade electronic voting system to paper-based electronic system
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County is closer to getting a new voting system that could be ready to go for the midterm elections. The County's Finance and Ways and Means Committees, Monday and Tuesday, appro...
Jan 05, 2022 Midwest Communications
Peoria hospitals seeing 'more sick COVID-19 patients than ever before'
Peoria, Ill -- Hospitals and medical centers across the Peoria area are under heavy strain amidst an unprecedented wave of incoming COVID-19 patients as well as ongoing staffing shortages. The quote f...
Jan 05, 2022 1470/100.3 WMBD-Mike Sabol
Attendance limited at PPS games due to COVID outbreak
PEORIA, Ill. - We're just now learning about a change in policy regarding extra-curricular activities in Peoria Public Schools that some parents might have already known about, due to the local rise i...
Jan 05, 2022 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Pritzker working remotely following exposure to state employee with COVID-19
CHICAGO, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker will be working remotely the rest of the week. Pritzker's office says the Governor came "in close contact" on Tuesday with a state employee who has tested...
Jan 05, 2022 State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service
State pays back COVID-19 related loan early, saving money
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - It's something the State of Illinois has been doing a lot of in recent years, and is doing again. The state has paid back a federal COVID-19-related loan that was used to pay medic...
Jan 05, 2022 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Man charged in stabbing death of state DCFS worker
THAYER, Ill. - A state employee was stabbed to death in a Springfield-area home Tuesday night. According to FOX-TV affiliate WRSP, Deidre Silas, 36, of Springfield, was stabbed inside a home in Thayer...
Jan 05, 2022 Sangamon Co. Sheriffs Dept.
Bitter cold raises awareness of in-home pipe bursts and water main breaks
Peoria, Ill -- Illinois American Water continues monitoring their system for water main breaks as bitter cold puts pressure on pipes all across the region. As of mid-day Wednesday, there was no notice...
Jan 05, 2022
UnityPoint Health suspending elective procedures at area hospitals
PEORIA, Ill. -- UnityPoint Health-Central Illinois is suspending all elective procedures. Hospital officials said in a statement on Wednesday, that due to an increase in positive COVID inpatient admis...
Jan 05, 2022 1470-100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
FOLEPI sets new attendance record in 2021
PEORIA, Ill. -- For a second year in a row, East Peoria's Festival of Lights saw a huge number of visitors in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. But that wasn't the only obstacle in the way for the s...
Jan 05, 2022 Rick Hirschmann/1470-100.3 WMBD
