Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Central Illinois man honored with the Purple Heart
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - A central Illinois man has been awarded the Purple Heart and other military honors for his role in combat during the Iraq War. The Peoria Journal Star reports that Sergeant Matthew...
Nov 25, 2019 Purple Hearts Reunited founder Capt. Zachariah Fike, who was wounded in Afghanistan while serving with the Vermont Army National Guard, displays a Purple Heart from Pearl Harbor which has yet to be reunited with its owner or relatives, during the National Order of the Purple Heart National Convention in Denver, Thursday Aug. 7, 2014. Purple Hearts Reunited receives lost Purple Hearts and works to reunite the medals with their original owners. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Woman shot at N. Knoxville gas station
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called just after 7 p.m. Sunday to the Shell Gas station in the 1900 block of N. Knoxville. A ShotSpotter alert indicated 8 rounds were fired during a fight at the g...
Nov 25, 2019
Tazewell County Board questions clerk's raises
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. -- Members of the Tazewell County Board have questioned pay increases County Clerk John Ackerman recently gave to 14 employees in his office. County Board Chairman Dave Zimmerman...
Nov 22, 2019 1470-100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
Peoria area's unemployment rate drops slightly in October
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Unemployment rates were down in all of Illinois' 14 metro areas last month. Illinois Department of Employment Security Spokesperson Rebecca Cisco said significant improvements wer...
Nov 22, 2019 (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
5th vaping-related death reported in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A fifth Illinois resident has died after being hospitalized with a vaping-related lung injury. The Illinois Department of Public Health on Thursday did not release any informa...
Nov 22, 2019 In this photo made on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, a woman uses her vaping device in Harmony, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Peoria teen arrested for stabbing Wednesday night
PEORIA,Ill. -- Peoria Police were called around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday to the 600 block of RB Garrett on reports of a stabbing. Officers located a woman who had been stabbed in the arm. Her injuries were...
Nov 21, 2019 Peoria County Jail
Children's Home needs donations for kids' wish lists
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Children's Home Association of Illinois has been helping kids since 1866. Children's Home CEO Matt George told WMBD's Greg and Dan that 1,700 children walk through their agency doo...
Nov 21, 2019 Children's Home Association of Illinois
Hill slams 'fictional narrative' about Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former National Security Council aide will tell the House impeachment hearing that one of the central Republican talking points - that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. election ...
Nov 21, 2019 Former White House national security aide Fiona Hill arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Potential threat at Bradley under investigation
PEORIA, Ill. -- Bradley University Police, Peoria Police and other local law enforcement are investigating a potential threat made on the Bradley campus. A note was found in a restroom in Olin Hall We...
Nov 21, 2019 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Ramirez found guilty of killing parents in double homicide
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) -- Jose Ramirez, the Princeville man charged with killing his adoptive parents, was found guilty Wednesday of two counts of murder. Ramirez was accused of killing Bradley Univer...
Nov 21, 2019
