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UPDATE: Severe thunderstorms hit Peoria-area Friday afternoon
UPDATED 3:31 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A tornado was confirmed near Eureka Friday afternoon as severe storms made their way through central Illinois. The National Weather Service reports the tornado was pai...
Julia Bradley Mar 30, 2023 Midwest Communications
Credit union closing Peoria branch
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - A Peoria-area banking institution is closing one of its branches, giving technology as one of the reasons. Redbrand Credit Union says it's closing its Peoria location at the Shoppe...
Will Stevenson Mar 29, 2023 (Redbrand Credit Union)
Polling place change ahead of next Tuesday's election
PEORIA, Ill. - A heads-up for some Peoria voters, with Election Day next week. The Peoria County Election Commission says if your polling place is Woodruff Career and Technical Center, that spot is be...
Will Stevenson Mar 29, 2023 Midwest Communications
Man, wanted by police, arrested on numerous weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man who was wanted by police is now in custody on numerous weapons-related charges. Police say 22-year-old Dwayne Daye was arrested Tuesday afternoon on a warrant, and is charg...
Will Stevenson Mar 29, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria City/County Racial Justice and Equity Commission releases report
PEORIA, Ill. - "Not a flattering account." That's how one member of the Peoria Racial Justice and Equity Commission describes their first report, showing more than obvious disparities in virtually eve...
Will Stevenson Mar 29, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
'If it ain't broke, don't fix it': Secretly recorded videos show ComEd lobbyists discussing alleged bribery scheme
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Longtime Commonwealth Edison contract lobbyist Jay Doherty thought he was merely reminiscing and giving advice to a colleague and friend in a February 2019 meet...
Will Stevenson Mar 29, 2023 Former ComEd lobbyists Mike McClain (left) and Jay Doherty are pictured in secretly recorded videos from 2019 that were shown to a jury Tuesday in their federal trial for accused bribery and corruption. (Screenshots from video presented as evidence in court)
South Peoria house fire deemed arson
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Fire officials are investigating yet another arson -- this time to a home in South Peoria. Peoria firefighters went to a vacant home near Livingston and Grinnell around 5:20 Wedn...
Will Stevenson Mar 29, 2023 Midwest Communications
Former Peoria City Council at-large member passes away
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City Council took time at Tuesday night's meeting to honor and remember a former at-large member. Timothy J. Newlin passed away on Friday, March 24th at his home surrounded b...
TJ Carson Mar 29, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Wright & Salmon Mortuary)
Security authority discusses tactics to make schools safer from attacks
PEORIA, Ill. -- Following a deadly mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, school security is top of mind. 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a former student of Covenant School, a private Christian sc...
Julia Bradley Mar 29, 2023 (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via Facebook)
N.Y. grand jury not expected to consider Trump case again until after Easter -source
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York grand jury probing former President Donald Trump's alleged role in a hush-money payment to a porn star is not expected to reconvene on the matter until after the Apri...
TJ Carson Mar 29, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on education as he holds a campaign rally with supporters, in Davenport, Iowa, U.S. March 13, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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