Category Archives: Local News
U.S. freight railroads prepare for potential strike disruption
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Major U.S. freight railroads said on Friday they were preparing for a possible strike and service disruption a week before a deadline in protracted labor talks. BNSF, owned by B...
Sep 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A Union Pacific rail car is parked at the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) Toronto Yard in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada March 20, 2022. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo
Pekin man sentenced to minimum in federal prison on meth, cocaine charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Pekin man will spend the next decade in prison after being found to have methamphetamine and cocaine in his possession. Court records indicate Cody Mammen, 32, was sentenced Thursday ...
Sep 10, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Bond set for man accused of Thursday shooting
PEORIA, Ill. - Bond has been set at $500,000 in the case of a Peoria man who allegedly opened fire Thursday afternoon, injuring a juvenile girl. Peoria County Court records indicate a judge Friday als...
Sep 09, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Bustos and LaHood talk agriculture and air traffic control towers in Peoria visit
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's representatives in Congress -- one Democrat and one Republican -- are celebrating a bipartisan victory that benefits the Peoria International Airport. Congressmen Cheri Bustos ...
Sep 09, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Armed Forces celebration in the Heights Saturday
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. -- Local veterans are getting together in Peoria Heights on Saturday for the 6th Annual Armed Forces Celebration Day. Scott Corsaut, with American Legion Post #1111 in the Heights...
Sep 09, 2022 (Armed Forces Celebration Day via Facebook)
PPD: Man wanted for shots fired incident Wednesday
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police are looking for a man wanted in connection with a shots fired incident on Wednesday. 30-year-old Duran Gladney was identified as a suspect after police responded around 2...
Sep 09, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail 2019 File)
Caterpillar settles tax dispute with IRS from 2017
PEORIA, Ill. -- Caterpillar said Thursday it had reached a settlement of a long-standing tax dispute with the Internal Revenue Service that led to federal raids on several Peoria area plants, includin...
Sep 09, 2022 Caterpillar's former downtown Peoria headquarters (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
State's 'Illinois Made' awards celebrate small business -- and, this year, pandemic recovery
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Area has four businesses that are winners of an annual state award. The businesses are winners of the "Illinois Made" award -- celebrating locally-made products and locally-o...
Sep 08, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Rural Dunlap blaze sends up smoke plume seen for miles
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- One top Dunlap Fire Protection commander says fire crews didn't have much of a chance to stop flames which fully engulfed a home in rural Peoria County late Thursday. "It was ju...
Sep 08, 2022 (Dunlap Community Fire Protection District via Facebook)
Juvenile, already in custody, arrested for recent armed robberies
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria juvenile has been arrested in connection to two armed robberies that have happened in the last few months. Police say they interviewed a 17-year-old juvenile who was already in...
Sep 08, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
