Category Archives: Local News
St. Jude Run And Telethon Bring In Over $10 Million
The 30th Annual St. Jude Telethon took place Saturday evening and signed off with a final total of $10,901,913. That is up over $550,000 from last year.Of that total, the Memphis to Peoria runners bro...
Aug 04, 2019 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Dalton Kemper
Peoria Seeks Input On 2020-2021Budget
Peoria wants your input. Peoria City Manager Patrick Urich says residents and business owners are invited to attend a public budget meeting Monday night to learn more about the 2020-2021 budget. "We'r...
Aug 04, 2019
Pedestrian Dead After Car Accident In Pekin
Pekin Police responded to reports of a pedestrian being hit by a vehicle at 9:07 p.m. Saturday in the area of N. 16th and Willow Streets. The pedestrian did not survive. The vehicle involved in the cr...
Aug 04, 2019
Fatal Shooting At Texas Wal-Mart
By Julio-Cesar Chavez EL PASO, Tx. (Reuters) - Multiple people were killed in a shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas on Saturday and one man was in custody after the latest U.S. mass shooting sent ...
Aug 03, 2019 Police SWAT team members prepare after a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, U.S. August 3, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge Salgado
Trump's Intelligence Director Pick Withdraws
(AP) - President Donald Trump's pick for national intelligence director, Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe, has withdrawn from consideration after just five days of growing questions about his experience and ...
Aug 03, 2019 AP/Andrew Harnik
Collapsing California Cliff Claims 3 Lives
(AP) - A popular Southern California surfing beach is closed after a sea cliff collapsed, sending tons of sandstone onto beachgoers and killing three people. The cliff near Grandview Beach in the Enci...
Aug 03, 2019 AP/Denis Poroy
Illinois Department of Public Health Looks Into Vaping
The Illinois Department of Health is investigating the hospitalization of three young people after they suffered breathing problems after vaping. The individuals experienced respiratory symptoms inclu...
Aug 02, 2019
St. Jude Runners Returning To Peoria Saturday
Saturday July 3, runners for St. Jude will return to the Peoria Civic Center for the 30th St. Jude Telethon. Runners are expected to arrive at the staging area downtown around 3 p.m., and the final se...
Aug 02, 2019 stjuderuns.org
New Information Could Lead To Remains Of Chinese Scholar
(AP) - The family of a visiting Chinese scholar whose body was never recovered after a former University of Illinois doctoral student kidnapped and killed her has been told the woman's remains may be ...
Aug 02, 2019 AP Photo/Teresa Crawford
Illinois State Senator Indicted On Embezzlement Charges
(AP) - An Illinois state senator has been indicted on federal charges that he took benefits and salary from the Teamsters for nearly three years while doing little or no work. Prosecutors in Chicago a...
Aug 02, 2019 FILE--In this Dec. 7, 2015, file photo, Illinois Sen. Thomas Cullerton, D-Villa Park, speaks to lawmakers while on the Senate floor during session at the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, Ill. Cullerton has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he took benefits and salary from the Teamsters while doing little or no work. On Friday, Aug. 2, 2019 federal prosecutors in Chicago announced that Cullerton, 49, is charged with 39 counts of embezzlement from a labor union, one count of conspiracy to embezzle from a labor union and an employee benefit plans and one count of making false statements in a health care matter. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
