Author Archives: Julia Bradley
East Peoria fire closes part of Springfield Road
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- A portion of East Peoria's Springfield Road was blocked Wednesday morning due to a fire. The fire was reported shortly before 7:30 a.m. in the 1600 block of Springfield Road at Fi...
Mar 24, 2021 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
Rivermen hockey returns in next fall
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Rivermen have announced that full season tickets for the 2021-22 SPHL season are now on sale. The Rivermen look forward to returning to Carver Arena in the fall in what will...
Mar 24, 2021
Bradley University surprises PPS students with scholarships
PEORIA, Ill. -- Eight Peoria Public Schools students were surprised on Tuesday with a free ride to Bradley University next year through the Hometown Scholars program. The program was first announced i...
Mar 24, 2021 (Courtesy of Bradley University)
Colorado shooting rampage investigation yet to uncover motive
(Reuters) - Police were searching for clues on Wednesday into what led a 21-year-old man described as paranoid and angry to open fire at a Colorado supermarket, killing 10 people in the second deadly ...
Mar 24, 2021 Josie Elowsky (C) cries and hugs her friend, Nirbisha Shetsha, at the site of a mass shooting at King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. March 23, 2021. REUTERS/Alyson McClaran
Family escapes Peoria fire
PEORIA,Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called to the 900 block of West Russell Street Tuesday morning on reports of a residential fire. Battalion Chief Clint Kuhlman said crews arrived at approximate...
Mar 23, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
CAT's new video highlights need for new service techs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPpV-gQofMI PEORIA, Ill. -- Caterpillar Inc. has a new trial video out that highlights a need for service technicians. The earth-moving manufacturing company is using t...
Mar 23, 2021 (Courtesy of Caterpillar, Inc.)
Suspect faces 10 murder counts in Colorado grocery store mass shooting: authorities
BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) -A 21-year-old man faces 10 counts of murder in connection with Monday's mass shooting at a Colorado grocery store, authorities said on Tuesday. The suspect was in stable cond...
Mar 23, 2021 Law enforcement officers in tactical gear are seen at the site of a shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. March 22, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt
Illinois officials investigate racist post directed at Kofi Cockburn
INDIANAPOLIS -- University of Illinois' Kofi Cockburn is the second basketball player to say he faced racist comments on social media after his team's loss to Loyola Chicago on Sunday at the NCAA tour...
Mar 23, 2021 Midwest Communications
Expulsions, releases, hotels: Migrant families at U.S.-Mexico border face mixed U.S. policies
DEL RIO, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. officials are trying to drive home an increasingly emphatic message to the growing number of mostly Central American asylum seekers crossing the U.S.-Mexico border ever...
Mar 23, 2021 Stephanie, 10 months old, cries as she is carried by her father Manuel de Jesus Martinez, an asylum-seeking migrant from Honduras who was airlifted from Brownsville to El Paso, Texas, and deported from the U.S. with her, while waiting to be transferred to a shelter outside the office of the Center for Integral Attention to Migrants (CAIM) in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 18, 2021. Picture taken March 18, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Top Biden officials heading to Mexico for migration talks
MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden dispatched U.S. envoys to Mexico and Guatemala on Monday for migration talks as he struggles to contain a burgeoning humanitarian challenge ...
Mar 22, 2021 FILE PHOTO: White House Coordinator for the Southern Border Ambassador Roberta Jacobson takes a question from a journalist during a daily press briefing hosted by Press Secretary Jen Psaki at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 10, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
