Category Archives: Local News
Man gets 27 years in federal prison for child porn production
PEORIA, Ill. - An Iowa man was sentenced in a Peoria federal courtroom to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty in April to Production of Child Pornography. The U.S. Attorney's office says Michael ...
Dec 23, 2021 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Expert: mental health takes a toll during the holidays
PEORIA, Ill. - The holidays can be stressful enough for people battling mental illness, COVID-19 or not. Dave Mingus, licensed in Behavioral Health with UnityPoint's Unity Place, says in short, if you...
Dec 23, 2021 (25 News)
Cookie chain chooses East Peoria as first Central Illinois location
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Another new business is coming to East Peoria, and it might be pretty delicious. Cullinan Properties says the first Central Illinois location of Crumbl Cookies will be in the Levee...
Dec 23, 2021 Crumbl Cookies
Lawmakers carjacked in Philadelphia and Chicago surburb
(Reuters) -Delaware state police have taken into custody five suspects after U.S. Representative Mary Gay Scanlon was robbed of her automobile at gunpoint in a Philadelphia park on Wednesday. The susp...
Dec 23, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon speaks during a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on "Online Platforms and Market Power", in the Rayburn House office Building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 29, 2020. Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Dream Center Peoria flooded; residents evacuated
PEORIA, Ill. -- Over 100 people, many of them children, were forced to evacuate Dream Center Peoria Wednesday due to flooding. Sprinklers were accidentally set off, flooding several parts of the build...
Dec 23, 2021 (dreamcenterpeoria.org)
Peoria home damaged by fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- A house went up in flames Wednesday afternoon in Peoria. Firefighters were called just after 4 p.m. to the 600 block of Vine Street. They found heavy smoke coming from the first and se...
Dec 23, 2021 Midwest Communications
PPD: Arrest made in July homicide
PEORIA, Ill. -- A 20-year-old man is under arrest for a fatal shooting in Peoria that happened in July. 19-year-old De'Monyae Zaire Phelps, of Peoria, was found with multiple gunshot wounds inside a v...
Dec 23, 2021 (Peoria County Jail)
Juvenile victim listed in stable condition after downtown Peoria shooting
Peoria, Ill -- A juvenile has suffered non-life threatening injuries in a shooting reported late Wednesday near downtown Peoria. Peoria Police Public Information Officer Semone Roth says officers got ...
Dec 22, 2021 Midwest Communications
Tazewell County 'salt dome' to be replaced following severe weather outbreak
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - A building damaged in the recent tornado outbreak that claimed lives in other parts of Illinois is getting rebuilt. Our news partner 25 News reports the salt storage facility a...
Dec 22, 2021 25 News
AAA: More people will travel for Christmas, but Omicron may impact projections
AURORA, Ill. - AAA is anticipating more people traveling for the Christmas holiday than last year. The auto club projects 109,000,000 Americans traveling for the Christmas holiday, and 5,500,000 Illin...
Dec 22, 2021 AAA
