Category Archives: Top Stories
UPDATED: Two dead after single engine plane crash-lands on road in Hanna City
UPDATED 10:59 p.m.: PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood confirms to WMBD News that two are dead following the earlier reported crash landing of a single engine plane in Hanna City. The...
Aug 13, 2022 (Courtesy: Charles Picton)
PPS Board: Recent dress code survey not officially sanctioned
PEORIA, Ill. -- Some school leaders in Peoria are going out of their way both to question and, perhaps to defend PPS District 150's current dress code. Peoria Public Schools Board member Anni Reinking...
Aug 13, 2022 Midwest Communications
Woman goes to prison for involuntary manslaughter of infant daughter
PEKIN, Ill. - A Pekin woman will go to prison for nine years after pleading guilty to the involuntary manslaughter of her young daughter. Tazewell County Circuit Court records indicate Angel Vanduker,...
Aug 12, 2022 (25 News)
UPDATED: U.S. House gives Biden a win with massive bill on climate change, drug prices
UPDATE: 7:27 a.m., August 13, 2022 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said he will next week sign into law a $430 billion bill that is seen as the biggest climate package in U.S. history, designed to cut...
Aug 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden gestures as he delivers remarks on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 28, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Peoria man convicted of federal gun, drug charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A federal jury has convicted a Peoria man of drug and weapons charges. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Daryl McGhee, 33, was found guilty Wednesday of Possession of Cocaine with Intent ...
Aug 12, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
County Board approves referendum question about County Auditor
PEORIA, Ill. - The battle between the Peoria County Board and Peoria County Auditor Jessica Thomas continues. County Board members Thursday night voted 15-2 in favor of placing another question on the...
Aug 12, 2022 (Peoria County)
FBI removed top secret documents from Trump's home, Justice Department says
(Reuters) - FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida this week removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as top secret, the U.S. Justice D...
Aug 12, 2022 Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower the day after FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach home, in New York City, U.S., August 9, 2022. REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado
Woodford County reports case of monkeypox
EUREKA, Ill. - A local case of monkeypox has been confirmed. That's according to the Woodford County Health Department. Officials call it a "probable" case in a single resident who otherwise wasn't id...
Aug 12, 2022 NIAID / CC
U.S. actress Anne Heche dies after being pulled off life support - Daily Mail
(Reuters) - U.S. actress Anne Heche died after her life support was turned off, a week after her fiery car crash in Los Angeles, the Daily Mail reported on Friday. (Reporting by Baranjot Kaur in Benga...
Aug 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Actor Anne Heche attends the 74th Annual Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., March 12, 2022. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo
Sollberger officially pinned as Peoria Fire Chief
PEORIA, Ill. - Fire Chief has been his title for a week, but now, the man in charge of the Peoria Fire Department is officially, official. Shawn Sollberger was officially pinned Friday as Peoria Fire ...
Aug 12, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
