Category Archives: Local News
U.S. weekly jobless claims fall to new one-year low
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits last week dropped to a fresh one-year low, suggesting layoffs were subsiding and strengthening expectations fo...
Apr 22, 2021 FILE PHOTO: People line up outside a newly reopened career center for in-person appointments in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., April 15, 2021. REUTERS/Amira Karaoud
U.S. pledges to halve its emissions by 2030 in renewed climate fight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday pledged to slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 50%-52% from 2005 levels by 2030, a new target it hopes will spur other big emitter countr...
Apr 22, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden removes his face mask to speak about the status of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccinations and his administration's ongoing COVID-19 pandemic response in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Projected Mayor-Elect Ali discusses filling council seat
PEORIA, Ill. -- If current election results hold, current At-Large Council Member Rita Ali would win the 59th mayoral election in Peoria's history. In the middle of her four-year term that expires in ...
Apr 21, 2021
Local COVID roundup 4/21: overall hospital bed usage up, but ICU bed usage down
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Woodford County woman in her 60s died between Tuesday and Wednesday from COVID-19. She lived in a long-term care facility, though the Woodford County Health Department did not reveal...
Apr 21, 2021 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Elmwood bank robber arrested in Springfield
UPDATE 4/21/21 2:15 P.M. -- John W. Beck was arrested Wednesday morning at a hotel in Springfield, Ill. at approximately 11:30 a.m. for a Livingston County warrant for Armed Robbery and a Department o...
Apr 21, 2021 Peoria County Sheriff's Office
Tazewell County Health Department announces COVID vaccine drive-thru clinic
TREMONT, Ill. -- The Tazewell County Health Department (TCHD) announced Wednesday a drive-thru COVID-19 vaccine clinic. The clinic will be available every Thursday-Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. a...
Apr 21, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 4/21: Positivity rate continues downward trend
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Wednesday reported the seven-day test positivity in Illinois is down to 4.4%, continuing the recent trend. IDPH Wednesday also repo...
Apr 21, 2021 Midwest Communications
Two injured in crash involving a Peoria County deputy
PEORIA, Ill. - Two people were transported to a local hospital Wednesday morning after a three-vehicle accident in north Peoria. One of the vehicles was driven by a Peoria County Sheriff's deputy, She...
Apr 21, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. launches probe of Minneapolis police after George Floyd murder-reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday launched a sweeping investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis following a jury's verdict that former city police of...
Apr 21, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is led away in handcuffs past his defense attorney Eric Nelson after a jury found him guilty of all charges in his trial for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. April 20, 2021 in a still image from video. Pool via REUTERS
Ohio police kill Black teenage girl seen threatening others with knife
(Reuters) - Police in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday fatally shot a Black teenage girl they confronted as she lunged at two people with a knife, as seen in police video footage of the encounter, authoriti...
Apr 21, 2021 Hazel Bryant reacts after her niece, 15-year-old Makiyah Bryant, was fatally shot by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., April 20, 2021. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse
