Category Archives: Top Stories
Pekin crews working around-the-clock to clear snow
PEKIN, Ill. - Crews in Pekin are doing the best they can in their battle with Mother Nature. "It's hit us pretty hard here like it has Peoria. All our roads are snow-covered," said Brett Olson, Operat...
Feb 02, 2022 Midwest Communications
Collins: Seven down, five to go
PEORIA, Ill. - As of 6:00 A.M. Wednesday, a lot of snow has already fallen today in Peoria, and more is expected to fall before it's all said and done. "I'm looking at official observations. At the ai...
Feb 02, 2022
UPDATE: CityLink cancels service Wednesday due to snowstorm
UPDATE 7:34 a.m. 2/2/22: CityLink says service for the rest of the day Wednesday will be suspended. "Due to inclement weather, CityLink fixed route bus service and CountyLink rural transportation serv...
Feb 01, 2022 1470-100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
Pritzker issues preemptive disaster declaration ahead of "Winter Storm Landon"
PEORIA, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is issuing a disaster declaration ahead of a significant winter storm forecasters believe could bring a foot or more of snow to Peoria and perhaps as much a...
Feb 01, 2022 REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
Peoria County prepping to tackle snow on rural roads
PEORIA, Ill. - If you think it's a daunting task trying to get roads clear of snow in Peoria, try being a snow plow operator in the rest of Peoria County. "The challenge in the rural areas is the blow...
Feb 01, 2022 Peoria County
Late-morning Peoria house fire called an arson
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Fire officials say arson was the cause of a late-morning house fire in South Peoria. Crews were called the the home on South Shelly, near Shelly and Antionette, just after 10 a.m...
Feb 01, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
LATEST: More school changes and parking bans extended for Thursday
PEORIA, Ill. -- Several municipal and educational authorities around the Peoria metro are extending parking bans and educational changes as a winter storm continues to impact Central Illinois. Here is...
Feb 01, 2022 Midwest Communications
Illinois legislative sessions cancelled due to weather; State of the State address still on
UPDATED 6:16 A.M. 2/2/22 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois General Assembly hasn't met much this year, and that won't change anytime soon. Illinois House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch says in a stateme...
Feb 01, 2022 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Defiant Putin says West has ignored Russia's security concerns
KYIV/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Tuesday of ignoring Russia's security concerns and deliberately creating a scenario designed to lure it into war. In his fir...
Feb 01, 2022 FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 file photo, President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia. An Associated Press review shows the idea of Ukrainian interference took root during Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was spread online and then amplified by Putin before some of America’s elected officials made it their truth. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Teen, juvenile arrested for South Peoria carjacking
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria teenager and a juvenile are jailed, accused of trying to steal a car in South Peoria. Peoria Police accuse Davyon Dillard, 18, of approaching a car on West Marquette Monday mor...
Feb 01, 2022 Davyon Dillard (Peoria County Jail)
