Category Archives: Local News
EastPort Marina worker recognized by East Peoria for quick-thinking, life-saving efforts
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The quick thinking of an EastPort Marina worker last month saved the lives of two people. On February 12th, Justin Smith spotted two people who had jumped into the frigid waters of...
TJ Carson Mar 06, 2024 EastPort Marina worker Justin Smith (L) with Fon du Lac Police members after receiving an award and proclamation from the city of East Peoria on March 5th, 2024 for rescuing two people from the Illinois River. (EastPort Marina Facebook)
Man sentenced to life in prison for second 2020 sexual assault
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was convicted of the second of several sexual assaults he's accused of committing in 2020. Court records indicate Marquie...
Will Stevenson Mar 06, 2024 Marquiese Talley (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail July 2020)
With feds citing 'extensive cooperation,' judge gives ex-Sen. Terry Link 3 years' probation
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - On an August day in 2019, then-Democratic state Sen. Terry Link stood outside of a suburban Wendy's and solicited a bribe from his colleague in the Illinois House. "W...
Will Stevenson Mar 06, 2024 Former Democratic state Sen. Terry Link exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago with his attorney Catharine O'Daniel on Wednesday after being sentenced to three years’ probation on tax evasion charges. He was also ordered to repay nearly $83,000 in restitution to the state and federal government. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Dilpreet Raju)
Woman sentenced to probation for animal cruelty
PEORIA, Ill. - A Princeville woman will get probation, for now, after pleading guilty to what ended up being one felony and several misdemeanor animal cruelty charges back in December. Stacy Mueller, ...
Will Stevenson Mar 06, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
UPDATE: City of Pekin says Avanti's Dome up for sale, new businesses to occupy former Bergner's location
CLARIFICATION 3/7 12:41 p.m. The General Manager of the Avanti's Event Center, Brian Wonders, tells WMBD Radio News the event center itself REMAINS OPEN, while Wonders declined to comment on the statu...
TJ Carson Mar 06, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man accused of sexually abusing disabled person more than decade ago
PEORIA, Ill. - A Roanoke man has been indicted by a Peoria County grand jury on a felony sex charge. The grand jury Tuesday charged Dennis Leman, 63, of Roanoke with the Class-Two felony charge of Agg...
Will Stevenson Mar 06, 2024 Dennis Leman (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Man faces felony sex charges after attempted sexual meet-up in Chillicothe
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - A man from Green County, Illinois, is accused of traveling to Chillicothe to meet a youth for sex. Chillicothe Police Chief Jeremy Cooper confirms Gary Sherwin, 65 of Roodhouse, wa...
Will Stevenson Mar 06, 2024 Gary Sherwin (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Judges, ex-lawmakers, lobbyists wrote to support convicted ex-Madigan aide
(Capitol News Illinois) - After Tim Mapes' August conviction on charges of perjury and attempted obstruction of justice in the federal criminal probe of his longtime boss, former Illinois House Speake...
Will Stevenson Mar 06, 2024 Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime chief of staff Tim Mapes exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago on Monday, Feb. 12, after he was sentenced to 30 months in prison for perjury and attempted obstruction of justice. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Funeral home director subject to 'scary, filthy freak show' complaint surrenders license
(Capitol News Illinois) - A Centralia funeral home director who was subject to a complaint that his embalming room looked like a "scary, filthy freak show" agreed to a permanent revocation of his lice...
Will Stevenson Mar 06, 2024 Moran Queen-Boggs Funeral Home Director Hugh Moran entered into a consent decree last week agreeing to surrender his funeral home and embalming license. He also agreed never to reapply for such a license in Illinois. (Illustration by Capitol News Illinois; highlight added)
UPDATE: Man injured after early Wednesday morning shooting in Peoria's West Bluff
UPDATED 12:51 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A man was taken to the hospital after a shooting in Peoria's West Bluff early Wednesday morning. Peoria Police says officers responded to the area of Broadway and Col...
TJ Carson Mar 06, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)