Author Archives: Cooper Banks
Chicago Bears head coach Matt Nagy tests positive for COVID-19
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Following Sunday's disappointing loss, Chicago Bears head coach Matt Nagy has tested positive for COVID-19. The Chicago Tribune reports Nagy will stay away from the team facility unti...
Oct 25, 2021 Matt Nagy (Chicago Bears)
UPDATE: Missing woman found, in good condition
UPDATE 7:00 P.M. 10/25/21 PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say officers located Monica Coombs, and is reported to be doing fine. ------------------------ PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police are asking the publi...
Oct 24, 2021 Midwest Communications
15-year-old identified as 26th Peoria homicide victim in 2021
Peoria, Ill -- A 15-year-old boy is identified as the latest victim of homicide and gun crime in Peoria. He is the 26th murder victim in the city this year. He is the third murder victim just this mon...
Oct 24, 2021 Midwest Communications
Three charged for rural Mackinaw murder Friday night
Peoria, Ill -- A woman is dead, a man is critically injured and three people are charged with murder in connection with a deadly shooting in rural Mackinaw Friday night. Tazewell County Sheriff's offi...
Oct 24, 2021 Photo courtesy of 25 News WEEK
Gov. Pritzker orders day care workers be fully vaccinated
Peoria, Ill -- Illinois Governor J.B. Prizkter's administration is issuing a vaccine mandate for daycare workers across the state. The announcement about the new executive order came on Friday. Under ...
Oct 22, 2021 REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
Bradley men's basketball lands 6th in MVC pre-season poll
Peoria, Ill -- Bradley men's basketball is ranked sixth in a preseason poll going into the Missouri Valley Conference 20-21-22 season. The poll came out late Wednesday. Drake comes in at number one. L...
Oct 21, 2021 Bradley University
Top Democrat floats debt ceiling increase end-around as legislative fight looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday said he would support allowing the U.S. Treasury secretary to unilaterally extend the limit on federal borrowing, w...
Oct 20, 2021 A visitor runs around the Washington Monument near the U.S. Capitol at dawn, in Washington, U.S., September 29, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Human remains found in Florida park amid search for Gabby Petito's fiance -FBI
UPDATED 4:50 P.M. (Reuters) -Partial human remains were found on Wednesday in a Florida wilderness area where authorities were searching for Brian Laundrie, the fiance of Gabby Petito, a young woman w...
Oct 20, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Gabrielle Petito, 22, who was reported missing on Sept. 11, 2021 after traveling with her boyfriend around the country in a van and never returned home, poses for a photo with Brian Laundrie in this undated handout photo. North Port/Florida Police/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Water main repairs shut down West MLK Jr. drive in Peoria
Peoria, Ill (WMBD) -- Water main repairs will frustrate drivers along West Martin Luther King Junior Drive in Peoria and it's not known how long the work will take. On Friday, Illinois American Water ...
Oct 15, 2021 Dagny Mol / CC
Illinois AG Raoul joins effort to reveal disinformation allowed by Facebook
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul says he believes Facebook allowed several elite accounts to continue spreading disinformation about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. Raoul an...
Oct 14, 2021 WMBD/State of Illinois
