Author Archives: Kristina Leahy
Durbin Announces Bill For Agricultural Research Funding
Thursday Democratic Senator Dick Durbin announced a bill that will help boost agricultural research funding. The America Grows Act would help restore the United State's commitment to publicly funded a...
Aug 08, 2019
First Time For Everything!: Learning To Be A Firefighter
1470 & 100.3 WMBD's news reporter Kristina Leahy accepted the challenge to see if she had what it takes to be a firefighter, by training for a day with the Peoria Fire Department. Leahy tells WMBD...
Aug 07, 2019
PPS: Because We Care Campaign
It's back to school season, and teachers want to welcome students back. As a part of Peoria Public School's "Because We Care" campaign, teachers from Roosevelt Magnet School went door to door Wednesda...
Aug 07, 2019
Update: Reneau Will Not Return To Washington Community High School
Former player and coach of Washington Community High School will not return to the school. Hayley Reneau, 23, was arrested Monday for an alleged sexual assault relating to an inappropriate relationshi...
Aug 06, 2019 Tazewell County Sheriff's Office
Man Shot In Peoria's East Bluff
In less than 24 hours, two shootings have occurred in Peoria's East Bluff. Tuesday, at 12:13 p.m. Peoria Police responded to a Shotspotter alert of shots fired near the 200 block of E. Corrington. Pol...
Aug 06, 2019
Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison Dead At 88
(AP) - Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88. She was the first black woman ...
Aug 06, 2019 AP Photo/Guillermo Arias, File
Washington: Former Player And Coach Arrested For Sexual Assault
Monday the Washington Police Department arrested Hayley Reneau, 23, of Washington, for alleged sexual assault, a class 1 felony. The Washington Police Department said in a statement that "the charge a...
Aug 05, 2019 Tazewell County Sheriff's Office
Man Who Sent Pipe Bombs To Democrats And CNN Sentenced
(AP) - A Florida amateur body builder who admitted sending inoperative pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff sentenced Cesa...
Aug 05, 2019 FILE - This Aug. 30, 2015, file photo released by the Broward County Sheriff's Office shows Cesar Sayoc in Miami. Sayoc, who created a two-week crisis by mailing 16 packages of inoperative pipe bombs packed with fireworks powder and shards of glass to 13 famous Democrats and CNN is scheduled to learn his punishment Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. (Broward County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
Expected Water Outage In East Peoria Tuesday
Some residents in the City of East Peoria may experience a water outage from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday. Areas affected by the outage are the 300, 400, and 500 blocks of Brianbrook, all of Cracklewood D...
Aug 05, 2019
R. Kelly Charged
(AP) - Minnesota authorities are charging singer R. Kelly with two counts of prostitution and solicitation involving a girl under 18 for an alleged incident in 2001. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Free...
Aug 05, 2019 FILE - In this June 26, 2019, file photo, R&B singer R. Kelly, center, arrives at the Leighton Criminal Court building for an arraignment on sex-related felonies in Chicago. R. Kelly pleaded not guilty Friday, Aug. 2, 2019, in New York, to federal charges he sexually abused women and girls. The 52-year-old Kelly was denied bail in a Brooklyn courtroom packed with his supporters. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky, File)
