Category Archives: Local News
Local COVID roundup 4/16: 4 more die
PEORIA, Ill. -- A combined four residents of Peoria and Tazewell Counties passed away between Thursday and Friday from COVID-19. A Tazewell man in his 40s succumbed to the virus, while in Peoria, a ma...
Apr 16, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 4/16: More than 166,000 doses administered
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Friday reported more than 166,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered Thursday throughout the state. The state continues to av...
Apr 16, 2021 Midwest Communications
Dr. Kasper: Peoria is a national "epicenter" for COVID-19
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria has become a nationwide "epicenter" for COVID-19 over recent weeks, according to Dr. Doug Kasper, Interim section head of infectious disease at the University of Illinois Colleg...
Apr 16, 2021 Midwest Communications
Chicago releases graphic video of police shooting 13-year-old
CHICAGO (Reuters) -Chicago officials released to the public on Thursday a graphic body-camera video showing a police officer shooting and killing a 13-year-old boy while he appeared to be raising his ...
Apr 16, 2021 Adam Toledo, 13, holds up his hands a split second before he was shot by police in Little Village, a neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, U.S. March 29, 2021 in a still image from police body camera video. Image taken March 29, 2021. Civilian Office of Police Accountability/Handout via REUTERS
UPDATE: Friday morning crash in Bartonville claims a life
UPDATE 4/16 2:15 P.M. -- The severe crash that occurred Friday morning just before 6:00 a.m. in Bartonville has claimed a life. According to Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood, 47-year-old Christophe...
Apr 16, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Chauvin waives right to testify, rests case at murder trial for Floyd arrest
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin on Thursday waived his right to testify to the jury about his part in the deadly arrest last May of George Floyd as both sides rested...
Apr 16, 2021 Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin waits during a break on the fourteenth day of his trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. April 15, 2021 in a still image from video. Pool via REUTERS
Gunman kills eight before taking own life at FedEx site in Indianapolis -police
(Reuters) -A gunman shot eight people dead and injured several others at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis before taking his own life, police said early on Friday. The incident occurred at a FedEx oper...
Apr 16, 2021 Midwest Communications
Area hospitalizations due to COVID-19 trending younger
PEORIA, Ill. - OSF Saint Francis Medical Center President Bob Anderson at Thursday's Peoria City/County Health Department (PCCHD) weekly briefing said COVID-19 hospitalizations are trending younger, m...
Apr 15, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
UPDATE: 2nd victim of March shooting dies
***UPDATE*** 4/15/21 3 P.M. The other gunshot victim has died. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said 27-year-old Brian Bruce, Jr. succumbed Thursday afternoon at 12:20 to his injuries at OSF St. Fr...
Apr 15, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
U.S. preparing for 1-year COVID-19 booster shots; Pfizer chief sees need
(Reuters) -The United States is preparing for the possibility that a booster shot will be needed between nine to 12 months after people are initially vaccinated against COVID-19, a White House officia...
Apr 15, 2021 REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
