Category Archives: Local News
Peoria Park District Board appoints new Vice President
PEORIA, Ill. -- There's a new Vice President on the Peoria Park District Board of Trustees. Trustee Matt Ryan was nominated Vice President for 2020 by President Robert Johnson. Johnson said that the b...
Feb 19, 2020 Dalton Kemper/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Police searching for cell phone store robber
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Police Department was searching Wednesday for a man who allegedly robbed the W. Reservoir Metro PCS store. The incident reportedly occurred Tuesday shortly before 5 P.M. whe...
Feb 19, 2020 Peoria Police Department
Gov. Pritzker outlines annual budget
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is promising his proposed budget will save millions of dollars. "The upcoming fiscal years budget will spend $175 million less, and we will save $6...
Feb 19, 2020 Illinois.gov
Suspicious injuries to child lead to East Peoria Police probe
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- East Peoria Police continued an investigation Wednesday into a Tuesday morning 9-1-1 call. Emergency crews arrived at 9:10 to a Jefferson Court home regarding a four-year-old the ...
Feb 19, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
State senator reacts to Blagojevich's release
PEORIA, Ill. -- State Senator Dave Koehler, who represents Illinois' 46th District, wasn't surprised by the news of President Trump commuting the sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Koeh...
Feb 19, 2020 Illinois Sen. David Koehler, D-Peoria, listens to lawmakers while on the Senate floor during session at the Illinois State Capitol Monday, Dec. 7, 2015, in Springfield, Ill. Illinois Senate convenes to address a compromise spending bill approved by the House last week in the midst of an overall budget impasse between Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic leaders. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
AP source: Barr tells people he might quit over Trump tweets
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General William Barr has told people close to him he's considering quitting his post after President Donald Trump wouldn't heed his warning to stop tweeting about Justice De...
Feb 19, 2020 FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2020. file photo, Attorney General William Barr speaks at the National Sheriffs' Association Winter Legislative and Technology Conference in Washington. Attorney General William Barr took a public swipe Thursday at President Donald Trump, saying that the president’s tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and cases “make it impossible for me to do my job.” Barr made the comment during an interview with ABC News just days after the Justice Department overruled its own prosecutors. they had initially recommended in a court filing that President Donald Trump’s longtime ally and confidant Roger Stone be sentenced to 7 to 9 years in prison. But the next day, the Justice Department took the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of prison time it would seek for Stone. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Fitch study results given to Peoria City Council
PEORIA, Ill. -- The way Emergency Medical Services (EMS) calls are handled in Peoria could change. A five year long study by the Missouri based company, Fitch and Associates, has been completed and th...
Feb 18, 2020
UPDATE: Ex-Gov. Blagojevich released from prison after Trump pardon
CHICAGO (AP) - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is out of prison hours after his sentence for political corruption was commuted by President Donald Trump. The now silver-haired Blagojevich left th...
Feb 18, 2020 FILE - In this March 15, 2012 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich departs his Chicago home for Littleton, Colo., to begin his 14-year prison sentence on corruption charges. Imprisoned ex-governor, Blagojevich, filed paperwork Tuesday, June 5, 2018, asking President Donald Trump to commute his 14-year prison term for corruption that included seeking to sell an appointment to the Senate seat Barack Obama vacated to become president. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
East Peoria tackling a new budget
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- The city of East Peoria is in the midst of working on a new fiscal budget for the upcoming year. The city council has addressed the operational budget, which Mayor John Kahl says ...
Feb 18, 2020 Jeremy Scott/1470 WMBD
KI$$: Civic Center sets record
PEORIA, Ill. -- If you attended Saturday's KISS and David Lee Roth show, you were a part of Peoria Civic Center history. The arena announced Tuesday the rockers set the record for the highest grossing...
Feb 18, 2020 Rick Hirschmann/MWC
