Category Archives: Local News
Airport director fondly remembers officer-involved shooting victim
PEORIA, Ill. - He didn't work directly for Peoria International Airport, but the head of the airport says he had plenty of time to interact over the years with Samuel Richmond. Richmond, 59, is the Pe...
Will Stevenson Oct 06, 2022 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Two injured following crash with PPD squad car
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say two people including a police officer were injured after a vehicle crashed into a squad car Thursday afternoon. Police say it happened just before 3:00 P.M. near Nebra...
Will Stevenson Oct 06, 2022 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Dehumidifier cause of mid-afternoon Peoria fire
PEORIA, Ill. - A faulty dehumidifier is to blame for a mid-afternoon fire in the central part of Peoria. Peoria Fire crews were called to the home around 1:45 P.M. Thursday, when a person inside the h...
Will Stevenson Oct 06, 2022 (25 News)
Police: Threat at Limestone H.S. 'unfounded'
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - Police in Bartonville say a threat believed to have been made at Limestone High School turned out to be unfounded. Police don't say when they become aware of the threat, but said t...
Will Stevenson Oct 06, 2022 (File-25 News)
Peoria Police investigate three shooting scenes
UPDATED 3:48 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are responding to three different shots fired calls in the city's East Bluff neighborhood Thursday afternoon. Police spokesperson Semone Roth says office...
Will Stevenson Oct 06, 2022 (25 News)
OSF announces new 100-bed behavioral health facility is coming to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- A new deal is announced which OSF says will bring a brand new behavioral and mental health treatment center to the area, the state's largest anywhere south of Chicago. OSF announced an...
Cooper Banks Oct 06, 2022 (OSF HealthCare)
Durbin latest to praise money for new PIA control tower
PEORIA, Ill. - The political victory lap continues in support of a big project long in the making for Peoria International Airport, and is slated for construction to start next year. Senator Dick Durb...
Will Stevenson Oct 06, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Tyson Foods moves corporate jobs to Arkansas in latest blow to Chicago
CHICAGO (Reuters) -Tyson Foods Inc is joining other corporate heavyweights in moving jobs out of Illinois. The biggest U.S. meat company by sales said on Wednesday it will relocate all corporate emplo...
Julia Bradley Oct 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Tyson Chicken Nuggets, owned by Tyson Foods, are seen for sale in Queens, New York, U.S., November 16, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Illinois "Stranger Things" display allowed to reopen
PLAINFIELD, Ill. (WLS) - Things just got stranger for an Illinois neighborhood. A controversial "Stranger Things"-themed Halloween display in front of a Plainfield home is reopening this weekend. The ...
Julia Bradley Oct 06, 2022 (WLS-TV)
Two arrested in Reditus Labs robbery
PEKIN, Ill. -- Two then-employees of Pekin's Reditus Labs were arrested and charged with burglarizing the facility where they worked in September, according to police and court documents obtained by 2...
Julia Bradley Oct 06, 2022 (25 News)
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