Category Archives: Top Stories

No fertility treatments for OSF LGBTQ employees, according to report
UPDATED 6:10 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. - A published report criticizes Peoria-based OSF HealthCare for a particular benefit it doesn't provide some of its employees. An article in Bloomberg Law online says OS...
Will Stevenson Jul 18, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)

Autopsy: Shooting victim died instantly
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Coroner says the teen who died Saturday afternoon and became the city's 14th homicide victim died instantly. Coroner Jamie Harwood says preliminary autopsy results on ...
Will Stevenson Jul 18, 2022 (25 News)

Police looking for juveniles possibly firing shots in South Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating a shots fired call Monday where, fortunately, no one may have been hurt, but caused a lot of commotion. Police were called around 1:15 p.m. to Westmorela...
Will Stevenson Jul 18, 2022 (25 News)

Pekin Police: Body found in wooded area
UPDATED 3:24 p.m. PEKIN, Ill. - Pekin Police say a dead body was founded in a wooded area just off Court Street. Police say they got the call at 10:48 a.m. Monday in the 3400 block of Court Street, ne...
Will Stevenson Jul 18, 2022 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)

Lawmaker introduces measure making parents more accountable for gun crimes
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Even as Illinois State Police files a rule change regarding how "clear and present danger" reports can be used in connection with FOID card applications, one Illinois lawmaker want...
Will Stevenson Jul 18, 2022 Lisa Zins / CC

State Police files change to use of 'Clear and Present Danger' reports for FOID cards
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois State Police officials are filing a emergency rule change regarding FOID card applications if there is a so-called "clear and present danger." The rule change was filed at...
Will Stevenson Jul 18, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)

Indiana gunman identified as 20-year-old local man
UPDATED 2:05 p.m. GREENWOOD, Ind. (Reuters) -The gunman who killed three people at a shopping mall near Indianapolis over the weekend before an armed bystander shot him dead was a 20-year-old local wh...
Will Stevenson Jul 18, 2022 An employee cleans up outside the Greenwood Park Mall the morning after a mass shooting in the Indianapolis suburb of Greenwood, Indiana, U.S. July 18, 2022. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

Buffalo mass shooting suspect pleads not guilty to federal hate, firearms charges
UPDATED 11:22 a.m. (Reuters) -The man accused of killing 10 Black people at a western New York grocery store pleaded not guilty to 27 hate crime and firearms charges stemming from the Buffalo shooting...
Will Stevenson Jul 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO :Buffalo shooting suspect, Payton S. Gendron, appears in court, accused of killing 10 people in a live-streamed supermarket shooting in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, U.S., May 19, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Fauci plans to retire by end of U.S. President Biden's term
UPDATED 2:47 P.M. (Reuters) -Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the White House, confirmed he will retire by the end of President Joe Biden's first term, but it could come much earlier th...
Will Stevenson Jul 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2023 for the National Institutes of Health on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 17, 2022. Shawn Thew/Pool via REUTERS

Peoria crews battle early morning blaze
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria fire crews were called around 5:15 a.m. Monday to the area of W. Susan Curve Court and N. Stephen Drive on reports of a structure fire. Firefighters arrived on scene and found s...
Julia Bradley Jul 18, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)


