Category Archives: Local News
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 ...
Kristina Leahy Aug 06, 2019 AP Photo/Guillermo Arias, File
Ohio Governor Urges Gun Sale Background Checks
(AP) - Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is responding to the mass shooting in Dayton by urging the GOP-led state Legislature to pass laws requiring background checks for nearly all gun sales and allow...
Julia Bradley Aug 06, 2019 AP/John Minchillo
CityLink Offers College Student Discounts
CityLink is helping area college students save a few bucks. They are giving college kids a discount on passes to encourage them take the bus. Students can ride CityLink buses for 50 cents with a schoo...
Julia Bradley Aug 06, 2019 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond, File
Pritzker 'Thankful' For No IL Mass Shootings, Ignoring 2
(AP) - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he's thankful that the state has not suffered a mass shooting like those over the weekend - without mentioning two mass killings in the past decade. The Democra...
Julia Bradley Aug 06, 2019 1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Shooting on Peoria's East Bluff
One person injured in a shooting on Peoria's East Bluff. Peoria Police say shots were fired in the 400 block of East Arcadia around 6:30 p.m. Monday. The victim was found with a gunshot wound to the a...
Mike Sabol Aug 05, 2019
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...
Kristina Leahy 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...
Kristina Leahy 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...
Kristina Leahy 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...
Kristina Leahy 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)
Chairman Announces Nomination For Peoria County State's Attorney
At a press conference Monday morning, Peoria County Board Chairman Andrew Rand announced his nomination for the next State's Attorney for Peoria County, Judge Jodi Hoos. Hoos said the nomination is bi...
Kristina Leahy Aug 05, 2019