Category Archives: Local News
Illinois law loosens team uniform rules
CHICAGO -- A new state law gives student athletes a little more flexibility with their team uniform. The law lets school and college athletes modify their uniform in accordance with their personal cul...
Jul 12, 2021 Midwest Communications
Next round of "All In For The Win" drawings Monday
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The next drawing for the state's COVID-19 vaccine lottery will be held Monday. Three prizes of $100,000 will be awarded from a statewide pool of adults. Drawings will take place e...
Jul 12, 2021
Pekin Police respond to 'domestic dispute' involving a handgun
PEKIN, Ill. -- Pekin Police responded to a "domestic dispute" involving a handgun Saturday afternoon just before 4:00 in the 1600 block of Martha St. According to police, officers were able to make co...
Jul 11, 2021 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
UPDATE: Final jail escapee captured
UPDATE 12:30 p.m. -- The Fulton County Sheriff's Office said Zachary Hart is now in custody, meaning all four prisoners who escaped Wednesday night are now in custody. No further details were released...
Jul 11, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
UPDATE: Driver in fatal crash near Lincoln ID'd
UPDATE 5:30 p.m. 7-9-21 -- The driver in the accident that claimed the lives of four Washington residents, including three juveniles, has been identified. Seth W. Phillips, 47, was driving the Chrysle...
Jul 09, 2021 Midwest Communications
Changes at Pekin's famous ''Spudnuts"
PEORIA, Ill. -- Spudnut Donuts in Pekin is now under new management. Jacqueline Butler, who now owns the business with her parents and husband Boomer Grigsby, a former NFL player from Canton, said the...
Jul 09, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
Pfizer, BioNTech to seek authorization for COVID booster shot as Delta variant spreads
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Pfizer and partner BioNTech plan to ask U.S. and European regulators within weeks to authorize a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, based on evidence of greater risk of infectio...
Jul 09, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Syringe and vial are seen in front of displayed new Pfizer logo in this illustration taken, June 24, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
Collins: Central Illinois could see severe storms Friday night
PEORIA, Ill. -- There's a threat of severe weather moving into the Peoria metro area Friday night. According to 25 News Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins, a cluster of potentially severe thunderstorms...
Jul 09, 2021 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Third escaped prisoner in custody
UPDATE 10:00 p.m. -- The Fulton County Sheriff's Office has said Cody Villalobos is now in custody. He was captured in the Western Peoria area, according to authorities. Zachary Hart was the only inma...
Jul 08, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Olympics-Some spectators allowed at venues outside Greater Tokyo -minister
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Olympics Minister Tamayo Marukawa said on Thursday that venues outside the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area would allow a limited number of spectators, while the policy for P...
Jul 08, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Minister Tamayo Marukawa speaks at a meeting of the IOC Coordination Commission for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, in Tokyo, Japan, May 19, 2021. Yoshikazu Tsuno/POOL via REUTERS
