Category Archives: Local News
State COVID roundup 10/21: trending in the wrong direction
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health Wednesday reported more than 4,000 cases of COVID-19 again, including a higher number than usual of deaths as well. A total of 4,342 cases...
Oct 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to plead to 3 criminal charges
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department says Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion. OxyC...
Oct 21, 2020 FILE - This Tuesday, May 8, 2007, file photo shows the Purdue Pharma logo at its offices in Stamford, Conn. Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of over $8 billion, Justice Department officials told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey, File)
Pope endorses same-sex civil unions in documentary
ROME (AP) - Pope Francis endorsed gay civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for a feature-length documentary that made its premiere at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday. Th...
Oct 21, 2020 Pope Francis waves to faithful at the end of the weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Man found dead in semi at Walmart
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria County Coroner's Office is investigating the death of a man found in the Allen Rd. Walmart parking lot late Tuesday night. "We have a male who was in his 30s that was found ...
Oct 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
Dunkin' Donuts employee arrested for beating up a customer
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria man faces an aggravated battery charge for an incident Monday evening at the Dunkin' Donuts in the 600 block of N. Western Avenue. Maleike James, 20, reportedly got into an ar...
Oct 21, 2020
Stolen RV leads to police chase in Pekin
PEKIN, Ill. -- A stolen RV was the cause of a Tuesday afternoon police chase that ended with the RV crashing into a generator in Pekin. The RV was stolen just before 5:00 p.m. by 22-year-old John Jose...
Oct 20, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
EP City Council officially names Brodrick Chief
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- East Peoria Police Department has a new leader. City council appointed former Deputy Chief Richard Brodrick as Interim Police Chief during Tuesday night's meeting. Brodrick was ac...
Oct 20, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
Peoria City Manager presents balanced 2021 budget to City Council
PEORIA, Ill. -- After months of discussion to revise the 2020 annual budget for Peoria, City Manager Patrick Urich presented a balanced 2021 budget Tuesday night to the City Council. Expenses in 2021 ...
Oct 20, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
2 PCSO deputies terminated
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria County Sheriff Brian Asbell relieved two deputies Tuesday of their duties. 33-year-old Joshua Carr was fired for an alleged Sept. 27 incident at Tavern on Prospect, in which Car...
Oct 20, 2020
Local COVID roundup: 10 new deaths
PEORIA, Ill. -- 10 more people in Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties have passed away from complications related to COVID-19. In Peoria County, Heritage Health in Chillicothe experienced another ...
Oct 20, 2020 Midwest Communications
