Category Archives: Local News
Police investigate stabbing at apartment complex
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating an early morning stabbing at a local apartment complex. Police say the stabbing in 700 block of Joan Court in the Oak Woods Apartments happened around 3:...
Dec 27, 2021 Midwest Communications
Peoria fire company remains out of service, perhaps another week
Peoria, Ill -- A beleaguered Peoria fire company remains out of service despite the highest hopes of a quick return and as COVID-19 infections continue spreading. Company Two, serving areas between We...
Dec 27, 2021 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
One person seriously injured in East Bluff house fire
UPDATE - PEORIA, Ill. -Four people escaped a Peoria house fire, but one of them was injured seriously. Firefighters arrived at 1900 N. Dechman Ave. at 9:39 a.m. Sunday to see fire coming from a second...
Dec 26, 2021 1470 and 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
One person treated after Christmas morning fire
PEORIA, Ill. - Fire in an apartment sent one person to a local hospital Christmas morning. Firefighters found smoke coming from the first and second floors of an apartment house at 2730 W. Trewyn Ave....
Dec 26, 2021 Midwest Communications
Police: No injuries after more than 20 shots are fired in Peoria's West Bluff
UPDATE: 4:24 p.m. Peoria, Ill -- There are no injuries reported after police received multiple shots fired calls on Christmas Eve in Peoria. ShotSpotter alerts went up for multiple locations in the We...
Dec 24, 2021 Midwest Communications
Dream Center Peoria gives update following water damage
"We are a long way from opening all of the floors of the Dream Center." Those are some of the words of Dream Center Peoria, posted to social media Friday, following the Wednesday accident where sprink...
Dec 24, 2021 Dream Center Peoria via Facebook
Late snowfall record could be broken
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The record has already been broken in Chicago, but Peoria is not quite there yet. We're talking about the latest first snowfall date of the Winter season. The National Weather Serv...
Dec 24, 2021 National Weather Service
Law enforcement out looking for bad drivers through New Year's
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Santa Claus isn't the only one who might know when you're bad or good right about now. As has been the case with other holidays, local and state law enforcement are out through Jan...
Dec 24, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Mall shooting leaves four injured near Chicago
OAK BROOK, Ill. -- Shots rang out in a Chicago-area mall full of Christmas shoppers Thursday night, injuring four people. The incident at Oakbrook Center in Oak Brook, Illinois, began just before 6 p....
Dec 24, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Central Illinois airports receiving extra funding
PEORIA, Ill. -- Airports statewide will receive extra funding thanks to the Infrastructure Law passed by lawmakers in November. Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-IL) has announced that more than $9.6 mill...
Dec 24, 2021 (flypia.com)
