Category Archives: Local News
EP city leaders address weekend looting and property damages
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- The East Peoria City Council voiced their thoughts on the looting and damaging events that took place over the weekend. The East Peoria Walmart, Lowes, and other locations were su...
Jun 2, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
Local COVID roundup 6/2: Civic Center testing site future unknown
PEORIA, Ill. -- No one knows when or if the community-based COVID-19 testing site at Peoria Civic Center will reopen. "Illinois Emergency Management Agency closed [the ten sites in the state] due to c...
Jun 2, 2020 Kristina Leahy/1470-100.3 WMBD
State COVID roundup 6/02: recovery rate holds
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- As Illinois continued its climb Tuesday to one million COVID-19 tests performed, the state's recovery rate held steady. 934,704 tests have been performed since the pandemic began,...
Jun 2, 2020 Midwest Communications
LaHood: Healing comes from mutual understanding and respect
PEORIA, Ill. -- How can we get past the violence? Congressman Darin LaHood, who represents Illinois' 18th District, believes in regards to violence that's erupted since the death of George Floyd in Mi...
Jun 2, 2020 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
Another busy night for Peoria firefighters
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria emergency crews responded early Tuesday morning to four structure fires. "Two of these structures were determined to be vacant and two were occupied. Three of the fires are susp...
Jun 2, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Charges: Galesburg man went to Minneapolis to riot
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - An Illinois man who allegedly said he was traveling to Minneapolis to "riot" after the death of George Floyd has been charged with federal counts. Twenty-eight-year-old Matthew Lee ...
Jun 2, 2020 A vehicle burns in the background as police in riot gear watch as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Saturday, May 30, 2020, near the White House in Washington. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Peoria stabbing under investigation
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police responded around 8:30 p.m. Monday to a home in the 1000 block of NE Monroe on reports of a stabbing. "Officers arrived and located a male victim of a stabbing. The male w...
Jun 2, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Victim expected to recover after liquor store shooting
***UPDATED STORY*** The identities of the suspected culprits have been identified. 20-year-old Ehad Asad has been charged with aggravated battery with a firearm. He was taken to Peoria County Jail. 39...
Jun 1, 2020 Kristina Leahy/1470-100.3 WMBD
Peoria Co. Sheriff speaks on curfew, other rumors circulating
PEORIA, Ill. -- The late hours of Sunday night and early hours of Monday brought a slew of violent acts to the area. Many rumors have been circulating social media about extreme measures the city and ...
Jun 1, 2020 Mike Wild/1470-100.3 WMBD
Family autopsy: Floyd asphyxiated by sustained pressure
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The family of George Floyd says an independent autopsy has found that he died of asphyxiation from sustained pressure on his back and neck. Floyd died a week ago after a white Minne...
Jun 1, 2020 (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
