Category Archives: Local News
With increased domestic violence, Center for Prevention of Abuse ready to help
PEORIA, Ill. -- The longer Gov. J-B Pritzker's stay-at-home order goes on, local law enforcement is seeing more domestic violence cases. Carol Merna, with the Center for Prevention of Abuse, told WMBD...
Apr 01, 2020
Overnight shooting leaves man injured
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called just after 3 a.m. Wednesday to the 300 block of Virginia Avenue. Police dispatch said a man was shot in the leg during an attempted home invasion. The victim ...
Apr 01, 2020
One man dead after stand-off with police
PEORIA, Ill. - A suspect wanted in connection to a weekend altercation has ended in an apparent suicide. It began at 7 a.m. Sunday, after a report of a man shooting a gun at a house at 2100 N. Underhi...
Mar 31, 2020 MWC-Photo/Image
Superintendent: 'probably correct' to assume students won't return to school by summer
PEORIA, Ill. -- With Gov. J.B. Pritzker's extension of the stay-at-home order, schools across the state will be shifting to remote learning. The extension through Apr. 30 means the very earliest schoo...
Mar 31, 2020 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
Local Olympians sound off on postponement
PEORIA, Ill. -- Over 10,000 athletes from around the world will have to wait another year for their "one moment in time," as termed by the late Whitney Houston, because the 2020 Summer Olympics were p...
Mar 31, 2020 Midwest Communications
City/County Health Department reports no new cases
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis reiterated the terms of Gov. J.B. Pritzker's stay-at-home order at Tuesday's Peoria City/County Health Department briefing, which included a report the Peoria-Ta...
Mar 31, 2020 Midwest Communications
Gov. J.B. Pritzker extends stay-at-home through April
CHICAGO -- Gov. J.B. Pritzker has extended the stay-at-home order through the end of April. At the state's daily COVID-19 press briefing Tuesday, Pritzker said that the stay-at-home order would be ext...
Mar 31, 2020 Midwest Communications
US death toll from the virus eclipses China's official count
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed past 3,500 Tuesday, eclipsing China's official count, as the deepening crisis in New York hit close to home for the governor when he di...
Mar 31, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local churches weather closures due to virus
PEORIA, Ill. -- The COVID-19 crisis is having a direct effect on local churches' bottom lines. Pastor Miranda Denler, who leads the congregation at Northwest United Methodist Church in Peoria, said on...
Mar 31, 2020 1470/100.3 WMDB -- Julia Bradley
South Peoria home damaged by overnight fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called just after 12:30 a.m. Tuesday to a home in the 2100 block of W. Lincoln in Peoria. Crews found fire in a bedroom. Battalion Chief Ralph Phillips said fi...
Mar 31, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
