Category Archives: Local News

Landmark Recreation Center to be auctioned off
PEORIA, Ill. - A popular recreation facility is apparently going to be on the auction block. The Peoria Forest Hill Development Company says the Landmark Recreation Center is now listed for a "direct ...
Will Stevenson Aug 15, 2022 (25 News)

Local gas prices declining -- but maybe not for long
AURORA, Ill. - Depending on which entity you ask, gas prices are now either under four dollars a gallon in Peoria, or just at that level. AAA says the current average price for a gallon of unleaded in...
Will Stevenson Aug 15, 2022 Mike Mozart / CC

UPDATE: New details on fatal Hanna City plane crash
UPDATED 3:49 p.m. HANNA CITY, Ill. - We're learning more about the time leading up to Saturday's deadly single-engine plane crash in Hanna City. The Federal Aviation Administration says the pilot of t...
Will Stevenson Aug 15, 2022 (FlightAware.com -- used with permission)

Peoria County mailing out permanent vote by mail applications
PEORIA, Ill. -- Illinois voters can now apply to vote by mail permanently. But, Peoria County Election officials are concerned that a recent mailer from the Voter Participation Center, a non-profit or...
Julia Bradley Aug 15, 2022 Midwest Communications

PPD investigating Monday morning shooting
PEORIA, Ill. -- Shooting in Peoria Monday morning has left a man seriously injured. Peoria Police Spokesperson Semone Roth said officers were called to W. John Gwynn Avenue, near W. Martin Luther King...
Julia Bradley Aug 15, 2022 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)

Three people injured in shooting outside Six Flags theme park in Illinois
(Reuters) - Three people were injured following gunfire outside the Six Flags theme park in Gurnee, Illinois on Sunday, the Gurnee Police Department said. Two victims were transported to the area medi...
Julia Bradley Aug 15, 2022 People walk towards emergency vehicles after a shooting at the Six Flags Great America amusement park in Gurnee, Illinois, U.S., August 14, 2022, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Jack/via REUTERS

Peoria business damaged by fire Sunday night
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters responded just before 10:45 p.m. Sunday to a commercial fire near the intersection of N. Knoxville and McClure. Fire Battalion Chief Scott Strum said first crews on...
Julia Bradley Aug 15, 2022 liz west / CC

UPDATED: Two dead after single engine plane crash-lands on road in Hanna City
UPDATED 10:59 p.m.: PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood confirms to WMBD News that two are dead following the earlier reported crash landing of a single engine plane in Hanna City. The...
Will Stevenson Aug 13, 2022 (Courtesy: Charles Picton)

PPS Board: Recent dress code survey not officially sanctioned
PEORIA, Ill. -- Some school leaders in Peoria are going out of their way both to question and, perhaps to defend PPS District 150's current dress code. Peoria Public Schools Board member Anni Reinking...
Cooper Banks Aug 13, 2022 Midwest Communications

Woman goes to prison for involuntary manslaughter of infant daughter
PEKIN, Ill. - A Pekin woman will go to prison for nine years after pleading guilty to the involuntary manslaughter of her young daughter. Tazewell County Circuit Court records indicate Angel Vanduker,...
Will Stevenson Aug 12, 2022 (25 News)



