Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Peoria man and wife arrested in huge AZ drug bust
LITTLEFIELD, Ariz. -- The Arizona Department of Public Safety seized 362 pounds of methamphetamine last week from Maurius Mason, 38, of Peoria, and Julie Mason, 52, of Iowa. The couple was stopped by ...
Jan 28, 2020 Midwest Communications
Pritzker boosts Illinois' efforts to fight the opioid crisis
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois is seeing the first decrease in opioid overdose deaths in five years. But, Gov. J-B Pritzker said that doesn't apply to minority communities. "We will not tolerate the ra...
Jan 28, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
After years of renovations, Four Points by Sheraton reopens
PEORIA, Ill. -- Seven years after shutting its doors, the renovated Four Points by Sheraton opens for business Tuesday. The hotel, located at 500 Hamilton Boulevard, closed in 2013. After years of ren...
Jan 28, 2020 1470/100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
OSF prepared for infectious diseases like the coronavirus
PEORIA, Ill. -- OSF Saint Francis Medical Center has procedures and facilities in place capable of handling infectious diseases like the coronavirus. Troy Erbentraut, OSF HealthCare's Director of the ...
Jan 27, 2020 1470/100.3 WMBD-Mike Sabol
Democrats demand Bolton testify as impeachment trial resumes
WASHINGTON (AP) - The stakes over witness testimony at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial are rising now that a draft of a book from former national security adviser John Bolton appears to und...
Jan 27, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2019, file photo, former national security adviser John Bolton gestures while speakings at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. They are the ghosts of the House impeachment hearings. Vice President Mike Pence. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. And perhaps most tantalizingly, the mustachioed John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
Kobe Bryant, daughter, among nine dead in helicopter crash
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Retired NBA superstar Kobe Bryant has died. A source has told The Associated Press that Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash Sunday near Calabasas, California. He was 41. Reports...
Jan 26, 2020 Firefighters work the scene of a helicopter crash where former NBA star Kobe Bryant died, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Calabasas, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Arizona, California cases push US tally of new virus to 5
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Health officials say the U.S. has five confirmed cases of the new pneumonia-like virus from China. Two new confirmed cases were announced Sunday - one in Los Angeles County in Calif...
Jan 26, 2020 FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020 file photo, Passengers wear protective face masks at the departure hall of the high speed train station in Hong Kong. Fear about the effects of a new virus found in China is spreading faster through financial markets around the world than the sickness itself. U.S. stocks fell to their biggest weekly loss since early October on worries that the new coronavirus could ultimately hurt travel and global economic growth. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Chicago woman becomes 2nd US case of new virus from China
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Chicago woman has become the second U.S. patient diagnosed with the new pneumonia-like virus from China, health officials announced Friday. The 60-year-old woman returned from Chin...
Jan 24, 2020 A traveler wears a face mask as he sits in a waiting room at the Beijing West Railway Station in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. A fourth person has died in an outbreak of a new coronavirus in China, authorities said Tuesday, as more places stepped up medical screening of travelers from the country as it enters its busiest travel period. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Peoria home suffers damage from garage fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters responded just after 6:30 p.m. Thursday to reports of a structure fire in the 4200 block of W. Richards Way. Battalion Chief Steve Rada said smoke could be seen com...
Jan 24, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Dense Fog Advisory until 3 p.m. (1/24)
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog. * WHERE...Portions of west central Illinois. * WHEN...Until 3 pm CST tod...
Jan 24, 2020
