Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria Park District looking to fix damaged bike trail
PEORIA, Ill. -- Utility vehicles are damaging the Rock Island Greenway bike trial by driving on the pavement to get to work zones. The Peoria Park District is looking into fixing the damages and preve...
Feb 26, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Trump says US 'very ready' for virus; Pence to lead response
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump says the U.S. is "very, very ready" for whatever the new coronavirus threat brings. He has put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of overseeing the nation's r...
Feb 26, 2020 MWC-AP-Photo-Evan-Vucci
Breaking: 'Critical incident' at Molson Coors in Milwaukee
UPDATE: MILWAUKEE (AP) - Multiple people were killed Wednesday in a shooting on the Molson Coors Brewing Co. campus, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said. The dead include the shooter, said Barrett, who d...
Feb 26, 2020
Congress makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Till
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, introdu...
Feb 26, 2020 (AP Photo, File)
North Valley blaze causes extensive damage
PEORIA, Ill. -- A home in the 1400 block of NE Glendale Ave. in Peoria sustained an estimated $50,000 in damage Wednesday morning from a fire. Crews responded shortly after 9:30 to the scene, where th...
Feb 26, 2020 Courtesy of the Peoria Fire Department
Update: ISP confirms one fatality in I-74 crash
MORTON, Ill. -- Illinois State Police confirm one person has died after a head-on collision on eastbound I-74 near Morton. ISP Public Information Officer, Haylie Polistina, said a van was traveling we...
Feb 26, 2020 (IDOT)
Arrest made in case of East Peoria boy declared brain dead
***UPDATE*** EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- A 33-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with a 4-year-old East Peoria boy who died last week. Lesli Jett is in custody of the East Peoria PD after being n...
Feb 26, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
Trump to hold news conference on coronavirus US threat
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump says he'll discuss the coronavirus threat at a White House news conference on Wednesday. The session comes a day after he sought to minimize fears of the virus...
Feb 26, 2020 A airport agent, who declined to be identified, wears a protective mask as she waits to assist international travelers at SeaTac International Airport, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, in SeaTac, Wash. Few travelers or workers were taking such precautions at the airport Monday, but a new virus is taking aim at a broadening swath of the globe, with officials in Europe and the Middle East now scrambling to limit it. The number of people sickened by the coronavirus topped 79,000 globally, and wherever it sprung up, officials rushed to try to contain it. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Peoria road crews pound pavement early, often
PEORIA, Ill. -- Per usual, Peoria road crews were up all of Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning, treating the streets in preparation for the morning commute. All 21 Peoria Public Works routes saw...
Feb 26, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Peoria City Council on the path to approve alcohol at movie theaters
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria movie theaters may soon have the opportunity to sell alcohol. The Peoria City Council was presented with several options Tuesday night to vote on how theaters could sell alcohol....
Feb 25, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
