Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Morton Dist. 709: COVID cases down, quarantines up slightly
MORTON, Ill. -- Morton School District 709's weekly COVID-19 update showed fewer students tested positive this week for the coronavirus, but there's an increase in the number of kids quarantined due t...
Aug 29, 2020
Riverfront Museum offers "Movies on the Plaza"
PEORIA,Ill. -- The Peoria Riverfront Museum invites you to the movies. The museum has added a 40-foot by 30-foot outdoor movie screen where they're showing family-friendly and classic films. The Museu...
Aug 29, 2020
Changes to PPS meal distribution begin Monday
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public Schools is making changes to its meal distribution program, adding a new restriction. Starting Monday, August 31, PPS will require children to present a PPS ID card to re...
Aug 29, 2020 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
Trump to head to Louisiana as Hurricane Laura cleanup starts
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - President Donald Trump says he is heading to Louisiana and Texas after Hurricane Laura tore through parts of the states. Trump's Saturday visit comes two days after the Catego...
Aug 29, 2020 (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Flooding surrounds a damaged building and boat Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, in Cameron, La., after Hurricane Laura moved through the area Thursday.
Chadwick Boseman, who embodied Black icons, dies of cancer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - First Chadwick Boseman slipped on the cleats of Jackie Robinson, then the Godfather of Soul's dancing shoes, portraying both Black American icons with a searing intensity that comma...
Aug 29, 2020 (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this March 4, 2018 file photo, Chadwick Boseman arrives at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, has died of cancer. His representative says Boseman died Friday, Aug. 28, 2020 in Los Angeles after a four-year battle with colon cancer. He was 43.
Update: Victim of fatal crash in Peoria identified
Update: Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the victim of a single-vehicle crash Wednesday on W. Glen as 46-year-old Christopher Parr of Peoria. Parr crashed on the 300 block of W. Glen...
Aug 28, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump wraps up RNC on White House stage
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden as a hapless career politician who will endanger Americans' safety as he accepted his party's renomination on the South Lawn of the White Hou...
Aug 28, 2020 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump speaks from the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Washington.
Discussions continue on renaming some PPS buildings
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Public Schools Building Committee has begun discussions to change certain building names. In 2017, discussion began about renaming Woodrow Wilson Elementary, due to racial r...
Aug 27, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
IHSA: Fall sports to end with "entry-level" tournaments
Bloomington, Ill. -- The Illinois High School Association has taken heat on a recent decision to forgo state championships for all fall sports. IHSA Executive Director Craig Anderson told WMBD's Greg ...
Aug 27, 2020
Teen girl first reported death from Hurricane Laura
UNDATED (AP) - Hurricane Laura is headed toward Arkansas, where an unusual tropical storm warning has been issued for much of the state. Many schools that just reopened for the first time since March ...
Aug 27, 2020 (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
A woman passes on a street near businesses on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in downtown Lake Charles, La., in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura.
