Category Archives: Local News
Woman sentenced to probation for animal cruelty
PEORIA, Ill. - A Princeville woman will get probation, for now, after pleading guilty to what ended up being one felony and several misdemeanor animal cruelty charges back in December. Stacy Mueller, ...
Mar 6, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
UPDATE: City of Pekin says Avanti's Dome up for sale, new businesses to occupy former Bergner's location
CLARIFICATION 3/7 12:41 p.m. The General Manager of the Avanti's Event Center, Brian Wonders, tells WMBD Radio News the event center itself REMAINS OPEN, while Wonders declined to comment on the statu...
Mar 6, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man accused of sexually abusing disabled person more than decade ago
PEORIA, Ill. - A Roanoke man has been indicted by a Peoria County grand jury on a felony sex charge. The grand jury Tuesday charged Dennis Leman, 63, of Roanoke with the Class-Two felony charge of Agg...
Mar 6, 2024 Dennis Leman (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Man faces felony sex charges after attempted sexual meet-up in Chillicothe
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - A man from Green County, Illinois, is accused of traveling to Chillicothe to meet a youth for sex. Chillicothe Police Chief Jeremy Cooper confirms Gary Sherwin, 65 of Roodhouse, wa...
Mar 6, 2024 Gary Sherwin (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Judges, ex-lawmakers, lobbyists wrote to support convicted ex-Madigan aide
(Capitol News Illinois) - After Tim Mapes' August conviction on charges of perjury and attempted obstruction of justice in the federal criminal probe of his longtime boss, former Illinois House Speake...
Mar 6, 2024 Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime chief of staff Tim Mapes exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago on Monday, Feb. 12, after he was sentenced to 30 months in prison for perjury and attempted obstruction of justice. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Funeral home director subject to 'scary, filthy freak show' complaint surrenders license
(Capitol News Illinois) - A Centralia funeral home director who was subject to a complaint that his embalming room looked like a "scary, filthy freak show" agreed to a permanent revocation of his lice...
Mar 6, 2024 Moran Queen-Boggs Funeral Home Director Hugh Moran entered into a consent decree last week agreeing to surrender his funeral home and embalming license. He also agreed never to reapply for such a license in Illinois. (Illustration by Capitol News Illinois; highlight added)
UPDATE: Man injured after early Wednesday morning shooting in Peoria's West Bluff
UPDATED 12:51 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A man was taken to the hospital after a shooting in Peoria's West Bluff early Wednesday morning. Peoria Police says officers responded to the area of Broadway and Col...
Mar 6, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Rivian eliminating third shift at Normal plant. Here's what we know
NORMAL, Ill. - Rivian Automotive says it will meet this year's goals operating with two shifts instead of three at its plant in Normal. The company announced last month that it's on track to produce 5...
Mar 6, 2024 (25 News)
Former Gov. Pat Quinn backs GOP-sponsored ethics amendment
UPDATED 7:06 p.m. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A Republican proposal that would give citizens the ability to propose ethics-related constitutional amendments on the ballot received a bi...
Mar 5, 2024 Former Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat from Chicago, is pictured at a state Capitol news conference Tuesday with Rep. Ryan Spain, R-Peoria, to promote ethics reforms. The pair spoke in favor of a constitutional amendment that would allow citizens to propose ethics-related constitutional amendments on the ballot through petitions. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Man indicted by grand jury for shooting, fatal car crash
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is facing multiple charges from a grand jury for a shooting that turned in to a fatal car crash almost a month ago. The grand jury Tuesday indicted Vanda Terrell, 51, on tw...
Mar 5, 2024 Vanda Terrell (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
