Category Archives: Local News
UnityPoint Health, Carle Health, consider 'integration'
URBANA, Ill. - You may or may not see the UnityPoint Health name around the Peoria area much longer. Officials with Iowa-based UnityPoint and Urbana-based Carle Health are exploring what the two entit...
Dec 13, 2021 Carle Health/UnityPoint Health
Officials give update on Edwardsville tornado that heavily damaged Amazon facility
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is continuing to remember the six people who lost their lives in Friday night's tornado in Edwardsville, Illinois, that caused part of an Amazon.com ...
Dec 13, 2021 State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service
Shinedown coming to Peoria Civic Center as part of tour
PEORIA, Ill. - The year of big-name musical acts coming to the Peoria Civic Center will continue with "Shinedown." Shinedown, as part of their "The Revolution's Live Tour," will be at the Peoria Civic...
Dec 13, 2021 jscomputerdad / CC
Limestone student arrested after making threat
BARTONVILLE, Ill. -- A student at Limestone Community High School was arrested Thursday after Bartonville Police were made aware of a serious threat. Bartonville Police said on Facebook that despite p...
Dec 13, 2021 (25 News)
Willie Nelson coming to Peoria Civic Center -- on 4/20
PEORIA, Ill. - Willie Nelson is going back "on the road again." The country music superstar is going on tour, and is coming to the Peoria Civic Center on April 20th. Yes, 4/20. Tickets for the show, t...
Dec 13, 2021 Photo from Peoria Civic Center
Washington mayor shares perspective on the weekend's deadly tornadoes
PEORIA, Ill. -- It will be months before places like Mayfield, Kentucky and Edwardsville, Illinois recover from the weekend's deadly tornadoes. Six people died Friday night at an Amazon facility in Ed...
Dec 13, 2021 1470/100.3 WMBD- Julia Bradley
PPD responds to armed carjacking Monday morning
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called around 6:30 a.m. Monday to the Westlake Shopping Center on reports of an armed carjacking. Peoria Public Information Officer Semone Roth with the PPD says a m...
Dec 13, 2021 MWC-PPD
Arson cause of overnight fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Emergency crews responded around 1:45 a.m. Monday to reports of a structure fire in the 1000 block of E. Behrends Avenue in Peoria. Firefighters found a detached single car garage engu...
Dec 13, 2021 Midwest Communications
Driver rescued from apparent hit-and-run accident
PEORIA, Ill. - One driver was trapped inside one of two vehicles involved in a Peoria accident. Peoria firefighters responded to a call of a two-vehicle crash at 8:26 p.m. Saturday in the 700 block of...
Dec 12, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Mason City woman injured, one man dead, after Sangamon County crash
CANTRALL, Ill. - A Sangamon County crash claimed the life of a Greenview, Illinois man and injured a Mason City woman. The crash occurred around 5:30 p.m. Friday on Route 29 south of Cantrall, about 1...
Dec 12, 2021 Midwest Communications
