Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Pritzker announces efforts to improve early childhood development
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. J-B Pritzker this week announced efforts to improve early childhood care and education in Illinois. Pritzker said he wants to make Illinois the best state in the nation for f...
Dec 17, 2019 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
House vote, and on to the Senate: What's next in impeachment
WASHINGTON (AP) - House leaders are preparing for the final impeachment vote just as lawmakers are about to leave for the holiday break. Approval would set up a 2020 trial in the Senate. A vote could ...
Dec 16, 2019 Midwest Communications, Inc.
Public Works: Despite snow, Peoria streets in good shape
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria received over two inches of snowfall Sunday night. Sie Maroon, Assistant Public Works Director for the City of Peoria, said crews were busy treating and plowing the main routes ...
Dec 16, 2019 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Bond set at $1 million for trio of homicide suspects
PEORIA, Ill. -- Three men, accused of being involved in Peoria's two most recent homicides were given a $1 million bond over the weekend. Desmond Sanders, 29, and Tyrese Walker, 20, were charged with ...
Dec 16, 2019
House gets 2 Trump impeachment charges after Judiciary vote
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Impeachment charges against President Trump went to the Full House Friday, following approval by the House Judiciary Committee. The House is expected to take up the two articles of ...
Dec 13, 2019 House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., left, gavels the hearing to a close after the House Judiciary Committee voted on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., is right. Trump impeachment goes to full House after Judiciary panel approves charges of abuse of power, obstruction of Congress. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Coroner identifies Peoria's 24th homicide victim of the year
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called just before 3 a.m. Friday to the Dream Night Club, located in the 2200 block of SW Washington Street, on reports of a shooting involving at least two individu...
Dec 13, 2019
Women arrested after children found alone in Peoria apartment
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria police confirm officers were called Wednesday morning to the Lexington Hill Apartments, in the 4300 block of W. Oakcrest Drive, for a welfare check. Peoria Public Information Of...
Dec 12, 2019
Explosion rocks Peoria Scrap Metal Facility
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police confirm reports of a loud explosion shortly after 7 a.m. Thursday that was heard from Creve Coeur to Chillicothe. Police said workers at Behr Scrap Metal and Recycling, l...
Dec 12, 2019
Caterpillar maintains quarterly dividend
DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Caterpillar Inc. announced Wednesday morning that the company's board of directors have voted to maintain the quarterly dividend. CAT's quarterly cash dividend will remain at $1.03 ...
Dec 11, 2019 (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time 'person of the year'
NEW YORK (AP) - The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named Time's youngest "person of the year." The media franchise says on its website that Thunberg is being honored for ...
Dec 11, 2019 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addresses plenary of U.N. climate conference during with a meeting with leading climate scientists at the COP25 summit in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. Thunberg is in Madrid where a global U.N.-sponsored climate change conference is taking place. (AP Photo/Paul White)
