Category Archives: Top Stories
PPD seeks new leader
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Park District has begun a search for its next Chief of Police. Longtime Chief Sylvester Bush has retired, leaving the PPD with no full-time officers. Thus, Executive Directo...
Dec 27, 2019 Peoria Park District/Facebook
Driving laws to get stricter
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- As you hit the road for the first time in 2020, be aware of changes to driving laws. Fines are set to increase for reckless driving, passing a stopped school bus, and construction...
Dec 27, 2019 Midwest Communications
Minimum wage going up
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- There's good news on the horizon for minimum wage workers. As of January 1, the state's lowest hourly pay rate will go from $8.25 up to $9.25. Governor J.B. Prizker signed Senate ...
Dec 27, 2019 MWC
Cullom resident charged with murder
COLLOM, Ill. - One man is arrested in connection with a triple homicide in Cullom on Christmas morning. Clifford W. Brewer, 53, of Cullom, was arrested and charged with three counts of first degree mu...
Dec 26, 2019 MWC-ISP/Clifford Brewer photo credit
Handguns stolen from East Peoria store
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- The East Peoria Police Department looking for information regarding a burglary from a firearm store. Police were called to Midwestern Firearms on Camp St. Tuesday morning just bef...
Dec 26, 2019 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
9-year-old charged in fatal fire to be evaluated
EUREKA, Ill. (AP) - A 9-year-old boy charged in a central Illinois fire that killed five people will be evaluated by a child trauma expert to determine if he's fit to stand trial. The Chicago Tribune ...
Dec 26, 2019
Triple homicide in Livingston County leads to an arrest
CULLOM, Ill. - A Christmas morning shooting in the village of Cullom, 20 miles east of Pontiac, results in 3 people dead and 1 person arrested. Livingston County Sheriff Deputies were called to a home...
Dec 25, 2019
Notre Dame unable to host Christmas services
PARIS (AP) - Notre Dame Cathedral is unable to host Christmas services for the first time since the French Revolution, because the Paris landmark is too damaged by this year's fire. So its rector, cho...
Dec 24, 2019 (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Operation Holiday Express brings gift to US troops
SHADDADEH, Syria (AP) - Hundreds of American troops based in Syria have received Christmas gifts thanks to Operation Holiday Express. This year, Santa's sleigh and reindeer were apparently swapped for...
Dec 24, 2019
McConnell not ruling out witnesses in impeachment trial
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he is not ruling out witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, but indicated he was in no hurry to seek new testimony either. Mc...
Dec 23, 2019 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
