Category Archives: Local News
Man taken to hospital following mobile home fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Around 9 a.m. on Saturday, the Limestone Fire Department responded to a report of a mobile home on fire in the Royal Oaks Estates Mobile Home Park. One man escaped the home but suffere...
Jan 23, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 1/23: seven-day positivity continues to decline
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health Saturday reported 5,152 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, including 97 additional deaths. Within the past 24 hours, laboratori...
Jan 23, 2021 Midwest Communications
Peoria Civic Center excited to bounce back after 2020
PEORIA, Ill. -- The COVID-19 pandemic hit many businesses hard across the Peoria area, but arguably none were as hard hit as the Peoria Civic Center. The downtown building used specifically for variou...
Jan 23, 2021 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Human remains identified as Jeffrey Blevins
UPDATE 2:50 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police have identified the human remains discovered Friday morning inside of a recreation vehicle in the 8300 block of N. Knoxville to be 49-year-old Jeffrey Bl...
Jan 22, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Local COVID roundup 1/22: slight setback
PEORIA, Ill. -- Region Two of Illinois has been looking forward to a return in the near future to phase four of Restore Illinois from tier three COVID-19 mitigation, but those plans on Friday encounte...
Jan 22, 2021 Midwest Communications
Pop-A-Shot partners with NBA for officially-licensed games
PEORIA, Ill. -- Pop-A-Shot announced Friday they have partnered with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to launch a line of officially-licensed games. Pop-A-Shot's best-selling game, the Home D...
Jan 22, 2021
IDPH Director says all HS sports allowed in Phase 4
CHICAGO -- Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike Friday announced all high school sports are allowed to compete in intraconference play in Phase 4 of Restore Illinois. As of Fr...
Jan 22, 2021 Photo Courtesy -- IHSA.org
State COVID roundup 1/22: positivity rate continues to drop
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Friday reported the preliminary seven-day statewide test positivity is 6.2%. On Thursday, that number was at 6.5%. IDPH Friday also...
Jan 22, 2021 Midwest Communications
Arrest made in Peoria woman's death
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police have made an arrest in the death of 50-year-old Mona Ellison. The PPD's Criminal Investigations Division has identified the suspect as 42-year-old Christopher Sanders. Du...
Jan 22, 2021 (Peoria County Jail)
U.S. House to deliver Trump impeachment to Senate on Monday: Schumer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will deliver an impeachment charge against former President Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday, rejecting Republican Se...
Jan 22, 2021 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) exits his office on his way to a photo-op with freshman senators at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
