Author Archives: Dalton Kemper
Double shooting early Sunday morning in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria emergency crews responded to reports of gunshot wounds to multiple victims early Sunday morning on the South Side of Peoria. A ShotSpotter alert indicated 20 rounds were fired ar...
Sep 20, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women's rights champion who became the court's second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She ...
Sep 18, 2020 AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File
CDC changes course, says to get tested if previously in contact with infected person
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. health officials on Friday dropped a controversial piece of coronavirus guidance and said anyone who has been in close contact with an infected person should get tested. The Cente...
Sep 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
PHS Football Coach speaks on #LetUsPlay
PEORIA, Ill. -- Many Illinois families have been asking for high school sports to be played this fall, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker doesn't have any plans to allow that to happen. "I'm not willing to sacrif...
Sep 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
Bradley President provides enforcement update one week into campus-wide quarantine
PEORIA, Ill. -- Bradley University President Stephen Standifird Wednesday evening provided an update on the campus quarantine. Standifird highlighted the enforcement efforts of the university, saying ...
Sep 16, 2020
Peoria Police ask for help identifying people involved in business burglaries
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Police Department is asking for the public's help identifying people in connection to business burglaries. The burglaries took place May 31 through June 3, when protests and...
Sep 16, 2020 Midwest Communications
WIU shooting suspect taken into custody
MACOMB, Ill. -- A freshman at Western Illinois University has been arrested after a Tuesday night shooting on the Macomb campus. Kavion Poplous, 18, turned himself in at a Chicago Police Department We...
Sep 16, 2020 (Western Illinois University Police)
Peoria Firefighters evacuate several homes Wednesday afternoon due to risk of explosion
PEORIA, Ill. -- Several homes had to be evacuated by Peoria Firefighters Wednesday afternoon due to risk of explosion. Fire crews were called at approximately 3:25 p.m. to the 1100 block of N. Univers...
Sep 16, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Hurricane Sally blasts ashore in Alabama with punishing rain
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecast...
Sep 15, 2020 AP Photo/Gerald Herbrt
Over $200 million in grants available for Illinois small businesses
CHICAGO -- Business owners in Illinois will be eligible to receive more funding in the form of grants due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, announced Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Applications for the Business ...
Sep 15, 2020 Midwest Communications
