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East Peoria tackling a new budget
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- The city of East Peoria is in the midst of working on a new fiscal budget for the upcoming year. The city council has addressed the operational budget, which Mayor John Kahl says ...
Feb 18, 2020 Jeremy Scott/1470 WMBD
KI$$: Civic Center sets record
PEORIA, Ill. -- If you attended Saturday's KISS and David Lee Roth show, you were a part of Peoria Civic Center history. The arena announced Tuesday the rockers set the record for the highest grossing...
Feb 18, 2020 Rick Hirschmann/MWC
The Big Table: Greater Peoria announces results from community event
PEORIA, Ill. -- On October 15 last year, over 700 community members gathered at the Peoria Civic Center for The Big Table: Greater Peoria Community Event. The trends of the conversations were announce...
Feb 18, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
LaHood issues Blagojevich statement
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Illinois 18th District Rep. Darin LaHood issued a joint statement Tuesday with 15th District Rep. John Shimkus, 16th District Rep. Adam Kinzinger, 13th District Rep. Rodney Davis, ...
Feb 18, 2020 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
EP crews respond to fire at UPS
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Hundreds of packages lost in a truck fire at UPS in East Peoria. Just after 12:30 Tuesday afternoon, East Peoria firefighters responded to a possible structure fire at UPS on W Cam...
Feb 18, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
President Trump commutes Blagojevich's sentence
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will be freed. President Trump has announced that he will commute the 14-year prison sentence of the former governor who was convicted of tryin...
Feb 18, 2020 FILE - In this March 15, 2012 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich departs his Chicago home for Littleton, Colo., to begin his 14-year prison sentence on corruption charges. Imprisoned ex-governor, Blagojevich, filed paperwork Tuesday, June 5, 2018, asking President Donald Trump to commute his 14-year prison term for corruption that included seeking to sell an appointment to the Senate seat Barack Obama vacated to become president. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
It's pothole season in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- With the constant freeze and thaw of winter, come potholes. It's a struggle the Peoria Public Works Department is very familiar with. Public Works Assistant Director Sie Maroon said th...
Feb 18, 2020 1470/100.3 WMBD/Courtney Pierce
Japan says 88 more virus cases confirmed on quarantined ship
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese health authorities have confirmed 88 more cases of the new virus on a quarantined cruise ship near Tokyo. The new cases bring the total on the Diamond Princess to 542. The number...
Feb 18, 2020 The quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess is anchored at the Yokohama Port in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. The cruise ship will begin letting passengers off the boat on Wednesday after it’s been in quarantined for 14 days. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Hidden Crimes: From the eyes of a trooper
PEORIA, Ill. -- Trooper Zachary Heard with the Illinois State Police said human trafficking is something that he has come across in his career. He said when he went through the academy, there were no ...
Feb 18, 2020
Local casting call announced for independent film
PEORIA, Ill. -- Calling all actors and actresses. "Say It In German", an independent film that will be distributed by NBC Universal, will begin a local casting call in Peoria in early March. The film,...
Feb 18, 2020 flickr.com
