Category Archives: Top Stories
Peorian pleads guilty to 2010 murder
PEORIA, Ill. - Nearly ten years after the Peoria murder, Breon Augusta has pleaded guilty in the death of 20-year-old Michael Malone. Police said in June that Augusta, 31, turned himself in regarding ...
Jan 07, 2020 Peoria County Jail
Illinois will stop collecting on unpaid red-light tickets
CHICAGO (AP) - The Illinois comptroller has announced her office will stop collecting fines against drivers who are ticketed after cameras catch them violating red lights. "As a matter of public polic...
Jan 07, 2020 An automated traffic enforcement camera records red-light violations Thursday, April 23, 2009 at the Westbound I-10 off-ramp at College Drive in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Tim Mueller)
Shots fired near Bradley campus, BUPD issues safety alert
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police confirm shots were fired near Bradley University Monday night. Just before 10 p.m., police were called to the 1400 block of W. Main Street for a report of someone being s...
Jan 07, 2020
Peoria shooting sends teen to the hospital
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police responded around 9 p.m. Monday to the 2200 block of W. Hudson on reports of a shooting. "Upon arrival, officers did locate a male victim, 18 years of age. He suffered a g...
Jan 07, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Illinois cannabis dispensaries keep up with supply and demand
CHICAGO - The Illinois Department of Federal and Professional Regulation has announced that statewide adult-use cannabis sales from Wednesday, January 1 through Sunday, January 5 totaled $10,830,667.9...
Jan 06, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
January serves as Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. -- The new year is here, and the Tazewell County Health Department is reminding the community that January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. More than 11,000 women in the Unite...
Jan 06, 2020 (AP Photo/John Amis, File)
A warm farewell: 2019 ends with temps up
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Christmas 2019 in Illinois wasn't quite a holiday in the tropics, but it was definitely on the warmer side of mild. The warmest Dec. 25 ever recorded at 68 different Illinois stat...
Jan 06, 2020 Midwest Communications/Arto Marttinen via unsplash.com
Creve Coeur Police looking for suspect
CREVE COEUR, Ill. -- The Creve Coeur Police Department is seeking the public's help in locating Jackie Wright III. Wright is wanted for multiple felony charges and is considered armed and dangerous. I...
Jan 06, 2020 Creve Coeur Police
Congress demands answers from Trump about Soleimani killing
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two top Senate Democrats are calling on President Donald Trump to immediately declassify the administration's reasoning for the deadly strike on an Iranian official. Senate Minority ...
Jan 06, 2020 Mourners walk back from a funeral ceremony for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in front of the former U.S. Embassy, who was killed with others in Iraq by a Friday U.S. drone attack, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. Funeral ceremonies for Soleimani drew a crowd said by police to be in the millions, on Monday in Tehran, where his replacement vowed to take revenge. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
PPD cruiser involved in weekend crash
PEORIA, Ill. -- Public Information Officer Amy Dotson confirms a Peoria Police officer was involved in a two-vehicle accident Saturday night in downtown Peoria. The crash happened about 11:45 p.m. nea...
Jan 06, 2020
