Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria thoroughfare street plan in place
PEORIA, Ill. -- For the first time since 2001, the city of Peoria has a new thoroughfare street plan and map in place. The Peoria city council adopted the new plan Tuesday night during their regular m...
Jan 28, 2020
Midwest Orthopedic Hospital at UnityPoint Health - Proctor celebrates its grand opening
PEORIA, Ill. -- Two medical organizations collaborated to create a hospital within a hospital. Midwest Orthopedic Center and UnityPoint Health celebrated the opening of the new Midwest Orthopedic Hosp...
Jan 28, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Skull/Torso found in the Illinois River identified
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria County Sheriff's Office and coroner have identified the remains of a body found in the Illinois River nearly three years ago. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood identified ...
Jan 28, 2020 Peoria County Sheriff's Office
Peoria man and wife arrested in huge AZ drug bust
LITTLEFIELD, Ariz. -- The Arizona Department of Public Safety seized 362 pounds of methamphetamine last week from Maurius Mason, 38, of Peoria, and Julie Mason, 52, of Iowa. The couple was stopped by ...
Jan 28, 2020 Midwest Communications
Pritzker boosts Illinois' efforts to fight the opioid crisis
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois is seeing the first decrease in opioid overdose deaths in five years. But, Gov. J-B Pritzker said that doesn't apply to minority communities. "We will not tolerate the ra...
Jan 28, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
After years of renovations, Four Points by Sheraton reopens
PEORIA, Ill. -- Seven years after shutting its doors, the renovated Four Points by Sheraton opens for business Tuesday. The hotel, located at 500 Hamilton Boulevard, closed in 2013. After years of ren...
Jan 28, 2020 1470/100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
Illinois to continue the voter registration program after error
CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker says there are no plans to suspend Illinois' automatic voter registration program as election officials work to contain the fallout from hundreds of mistaken registra...
Jan 27, 2020 MWC-Governor-J.B.-Pritzker-Photo Credit-Illinois.gov
Pekin approves new vans for student transport
PEKIN, Ill. -- Two new vans from a local business was decided by the Pekin City Council Monday night to transport students from Pekin to Kiefer School in Peoria and High Road School of Bloomington. Pe...
Jan 27, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
OSF prepared for infectious diseases like the coronavirus
PEORIA, Ill. -- OSF Saint Francis Medical Center has procedures and facilities in place capable of handling infectious diseases like the coronavirus. Troy Erbentraut, OSF HealthCare's Director of the ...
Jan 27, 2020 1470/100.3 WMBD-Mike Sabol
Democrats demand Bolton testify as impeachment trial resumes
WASHINGTON (AP) - The stakes over witness testimony at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial are rising now that a draft of a book from former national security adviser John Bolton appears to und...
Jan 27, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2019, file photo, former national security adviser John Bolton gestures while speakings at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. They are the ghosts of the House impeachment hearings. Vice President Mike Pence. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. And perhaps most tantalizingly, the mustachioed John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
