Peoria County, IL

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Peoria police confirmed one man is dead after a shooting Saturday near the 1500 block of North Bigelow and Richmond Avenue. According to Peoria Police Public Information Officer Semone Roth, the shot spotter call came in at 12:28 p.m. Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria said...

PEORIA (Heart of Illinois ABC) - Peoria police are investigating after they found a man shot to death Saturday afternoon near Peoria High School, on the same day seniors received their degrees. According to Peoria Police information officer Semone Roth, at 12:28 PM, police responded to a Shotspotter alert in...

A man is dead after a Saturday afternoon shooting in Peoria, marking the city’s ninth homicide of 2022. According to the Peoria Police Department, the victim was found in the 1500 block of North Bigelow Street near the intersection with Richmond Avenue. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

PEORIA – A 37-year-old man was identified as the pedestrian killed in a traffic accident on Thursday. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said Jeremiah J. Burgess, of Northeast Adams Street, was struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Northeast Jefferson Street and Abington shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday morning. An autopsy showed Burgess suffered severe,...

PEORIA – Masks are once again being recommended in some Illinois counties. On Friday, Peoria and Tazewell counties went from "medium" to “high” transmission risk on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID tracker website. Peoria County is currently seeing 329.28 cases and 14.3 admissions per 100,000 residents, and Tazewell County is at 318.66 cases...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the victim of a deadly crash that occurred near North East Jefferson and Abington Streets Thursday morning. According to Harwood, 37-year-old Jeremiah J. Burgess suffered severe, multiple blunt force trauma injuries as a result of being struck by...

PEORIA, Ill. – The Peoria County Coroner is releasing the name of the victim in Thursday morning’s deadly car accident near downtown Peoria. Coroner Jamie Harwood says preliminary autopsy results on Jeremiah Burgess, 37, of Peoria indicates he likely died instantly from severe, multiple blunt force trauma injuries.

CHICAGO (Heart of Illinois ABC) - A Peoria County woman was arraigned Thursday after Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office alleges she falsified information on the Firearm Owners Identification card application she submitted to State Police. Ronda Frye, 51, is the same woman sentenced to two months in jail...

After adding over 702,000 new cases throughout the last week, the U.S. now has more than 81.9 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been more than 990,000 COVID-19-related deaths — the highest death toll of any country. New cases continue to rise at a faster rate. In the past week, there were an average […]

PEKIN – A Tazewell County judge could rule in June whether a 17-year-old Groveland boy, charged in connection with the death of a rural Mackinaw woman, is kept in juvenile custody or put into the adult side of the jail. Attorney Dale Thomas has asked Judge Chris Doscotch to keep his client, Andre Street, in the Peoria...

UPDATE: The intersection has been reopened. Peoria, Ill. (WMBD) — One person was pronounced dead after a car crash in Peoria early Thursday morning. Peoria Police responded to an incident involving a car and a pedestrian at the intersection of North East Jefferson Street and Abington Street. When officers...

PEORIA (Heart of Illinois ABC) -The Peoria County Coroner says a 37-year-old Peoria man died early Thursday after being hit by a car. It happened at the intersection of Northeast Jefferson and Abington in the early morning hours of Thursday, May 19. Coroner Jamie Harwood says Jeremiah Burgess suffered severe,...

PEORIA – Barring a successful appeal, a Peoria man will spend the rest of his life in prison, a judge ordered this week. Peoria County Circuit Judge John Vespa handed down the life sentence for Anthony L. Jackson, who was convicted in March after a three-day bench trial of fatally shooting his uncle in 2018.

PEORIA (Heart of Illinois ABC) - A pedestrian has died after being hit by a vehicle in Peoria early Thursday morning. The Peoria Police Department first responded to the scene of the crash at the intersection of NE Jefferson and Abington streets around 4:07 a.m. There, officers found the pedestrian, who was pronounced dead by medical personnel.

PEORIA – A person is dead after an early morning accident in Peoria's North Valley, Peoria police said. Officers responded to an accident involving a vehicle and a pedestrian around 4:07 a.m. Thursday near the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Abington Street, according to police spokeswoman Semone Roth. ...

PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Police say one person is dead after a crash involving a car and a pedestrian early Thursday morning. PPD says the incident happened just after 4 a.m. at the intersection of N.E. Jefferson and Abington Streets. Officers arrived to find a person down who was...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Many counties are still seeking election judges with early voting starting Thursday, May 19. Tazewell County has had great turnout, but Peoria County is struggling quite a bit. With two solid requirements to be an election judge, those being a registered voter and age 18...

A typical Peoria County home listed for $109,900 in April, unchanged from a month earlier, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. The median list home price in April was up about 5.7% from April 2021. Peoria County's median home was 1,409 square feet for a listed price of $83 per square foot. The...

A person is dead after a crash involving a vehicle early Thursday morning in Peoria's North Valley. Officers responded to the crash at Jefferson and Abington just after 4 a.m. Police arriving on scene found a person on the ground, later pronounced dead. The Peoria County Coroner will determine the...