Category Archives: Local News
Kitchen Cooked plant transitioning to distribution facility
FARMINGTON, Ill. - A longtime staple made in Fulton County will not be made there any more. The parent company of Kitchen Cooked Potato Chips says the chips will not be made in Farmington any longer, ...
May 12, 2022 Kitchen Cooked/Utz Snacks
IDOT crews spend hours repairing Wednesday road buckle on Route 6
PEORIA, Ill. -- Crews working with the Illinois Department of Transportation spent "several hours" repairing a major roadway buckle that happened late Wednesday as many local commuters were making the...
May 12, 2022 Cars drive along Tonnele Ave at the end of a road work in Union City, New Jersey, U.S. March 31, 2021. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Fire overnight in Peoria deemed arson
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters responded to a house fire just before 1 a.m. Thursday in the area of Haungs Avenue and NE Adams Street. Crews found smoke and fire in the front room of the home. Th...
May 12, 2022 Midwest Communications
Luft to Chamber: The 'state of Pekin' is good
PEKIN, Ill. - "Pekin is doing really good." Those were some of the words of its Mayor -- Mark Luft -- during a Pekin Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon Wednesday. Luft told the crowd things would be do...
May 11, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Felon gets federal prison on weapons charge
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man who originally faced several state charges following an incident last September is going to federal prison for just one charge. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Alante Jacks...
May 11, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Man gets federal prison on child porn charge
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is going to federal prison for fourteen years in prison for having a video containing child pornography on his cell phone. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Randall Ray IV, 3...
May 11, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
State's Attorney: Teen, now 17, faces felonies for fatal February Bartonville crash
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says it's filing charges against the now-17-year-old driver who allegedly crashed a car in late-February, killing another teen. State's Attor...
May 11, 2022 (25 News)
Firefighters respond to blaze on River Beach Drive in Chillicothe
UPDATED 2:58 P.M. CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - Firefighters Wednesday battled a blaze at a home in Chillicothe, just off Illinois Route 29. Crews were called to the area of the 15400 block of River Beach Drive...
May 11, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria elected leaders vote to allocate $6.6M to short-term road improvements
PEORIA, Ill. -- One of the bumpier, cracked roadways in Peoria -- among others -- is now set for some much needed repair as a result of action at Tuesday night's Peoria City Council meeting. Council m...
May 11, 2022 Midwest Communications
Pritzker speaks on on reproductive rights ahead of Senate vote
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. J-B Pritzker is calling on federal lawmakers to protect women's right to choose. The U.S. Senate is voting on Wednesday on codifying the landmark Roe v. Wade co...
May 11, 2022 (State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service)
