Category Archives: (1470 & 100.3 WMBD) All Stations
WTVP denied public broadcasting funding pending investigation
PEORIA, Ill. - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is withholding grant money from Peoria public tv station WTVP, pending review of its legal and financial woes. CPB Spokesperson Brendan Daly says...
Dec 16, 2023
Longtime Peoria radio personality set to retire
PEORIA, Ill. – We think we can probably speak for most of our coworkers at Midwest Communications in Peoria when we say we don’t want this to happen. But, while he admits it’s hard t...
Dec 15, 2023
Peoria man sentenced to 12 years in prison for 2021 fatal crash in Knox County
GALESBURG, Ill. – A Peoria man will be in prison for the next 12 years after being sentenced for a fatal crash that killed a Mackinaw man. 41-year-old Travis Williams was sentenced on Monday aft...
Dec 15, 2023
Dunlap man sentenced to federal prison on weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. – A Dunlap man will spend the next two-and-a-half years in federal prison on gun charges. 29-year-old Donald Yarber was given a 30 month sentence on Wednesday, which is to be follow...
Dec 15, 2023
UPDATE: Jury finds Brandon Walker guilty of murder in the death of Navin Jones
UPDATED 3:07 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. – "My office, this jury, and our community have cared more for Navin in his death than his parents ever did in his life. Good riddance to them." Those are the word...
Dec 15, 2023
ICC property back on the market, despite plans for hotel development downtown
PEORIA, Ill. - Plans for a hotel project in downtown Peoria are now in question, with one of the properties associated with it back on the market. Keith Weinstein's Greystone Realty Group reached a re...
Dec 15, 2023
Garage damaged after Friday morning fire in Peoria’s East Bluff neighborhood
PEORIA, Ill. – Peoria Fire is investigating the cause of a fire from Friday morning to a garage in the East Bluff. Crews arrived just before 8:00 A.M. to the area of Virginia and Indiana to find...
Dec 15, 2023
State regulators once again flex muscle in rejecting utilities’ grid plans, lessening rate hikes
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Commerce Commission on Thursday curtailed proposed rate hikes and rejected grid plans from two major electric utilities, mirroring a series of bombshell ...
Dec 15, 2023
UPDATE: Guilty plea of Stephanie Jones cannot be evidence in murder trial of Brandon Walker
UPDATED: 12/15 9:42 a.m. On Friday morning, Peoria County Court Judge John Vespa ruled that 37-year-old Stephanie Jones' guilty plea to first-degree murder charges for the death of her 8-year-old son ...
Dec 14, 2023
State public health officials looking to slow spread of respiratory viruses as cases rise
CHICAGO, Ill. – The state of Illinois is asking healthcare facilities to ramp up efforts to mitigate respiratory viruses as cases increase. Data from the Center for Disease Control's COVID Data ...
Dec 14, 2023
