Category Archives: Top Stories
Three shot, one killed Saturday night in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Three people were shot and one of them was pronounced dead at the scene Saturday night at a home in the 4000 block of W. Virden Ct. Further information gathered by Peoria Police indica...
Nov 24, 2019
U.S. Officials say do not eat romaine grown from Salinas, California
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. health officials are telling people to avoid romaine lettuce grown in Salinas, California, as they investigate a food poisoning outbreak. They also say not to eat the leafy green ...
Nov 23, 2019 Midwest Communications
Youth football team trying to repair shed
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria youth football team could use your help. It's been estimated the equipment shed for the Peoria Junior Football League's Woodruff Warriors sustained just short of $10,000 worth...
Nov 22, 2019 Vanessa Farraher/JFL
Local high school students paint original artwork for the Ronald McDonald House
PEORIA, Ill. -- Art students from Washington Community High School used their skills Friday to create a mural in Dax's Playroom of the Ronald McDonald House. The mural include color blobs and drawings...
Nov 22, 2019 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Tazewell County Board questions clerk's raises
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. -- Members of the Tazewell County Board have questioned pay increases County Clerk John Ackerman recently gave to 14 employees in his office. County Board Chairman Dave Zimmerman...
Nov 22, 2019 1470-100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
Peoria area's unemployment rate drops slightly in October
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Unemployment rates were down in all of Illinois' 14 metro areas last month. Illinois Department of Employment Security Spokesperson Rebecca Cisco said significant improvements wer...
Nov 22, 2019 (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
5th vaping-related death reported in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A fifth Illinois resident has died after being hospitalized with a vaping-related lung injury. The Illinois Department of Public Health on Thursday did not release any informa...
Nov 22, 2019 In this photo made on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, a woman uses her vaping device in Harmony, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Festival of Lights to compete in The Great Christmas Light Fight
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- An ultimate battle of Christmas lights. ABC's The Great Christmas Light Fight showcases epic displays of Christmas lights in a competition, and the East Peoria Festival of Lights ...
Nov 21, 2019 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
A stabbing in south Peoria leads to an arrest
PEORIA, Ill. -- An arrest was made for a south Peoria stabbing. Peoria Police were called to a reported stabbing in the 1000 block of south Shelley around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. Officers located a woman...
Nov 21, 2019 MWC-Bars Grapic-Flicker
New Peoria Stadium sign coming soon
PEORIA, Ill. -- The updates to the vintage Peoria Public Schools Stadium sign will be finished in December. David Meyers, Director of Buildings and Grounds, said the new base of the sign has been atta...
Nov 21, 2019 Kristina Leahy/WMBD
