Category Archives: Local News
Peoria Co. Election Commission unveils ballot drop boxes
PEORIA, Ill. -- Avoid the lines, vote by mail. The Illinois State Legislature at the end of May and Gov. J-B Pritzker at the end of June signed legislation that addressed holding an election during a ...
Sep 23, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
Grand jury indicts 1 police officer in Breonna Taylor death
***UPDATE*** LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville police for the killing of Breonna Taylor during a drug raid gone wrong, with prosecutors saying Wednesda...
Sep 23, 2020 Courtesy of Taylor Family attorney Sam Aguiar via AP
Gale Sayers, Bears Hall of Fame running back, dies at 77
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Bears Hall of Fame running back Gale Sayers has died. Sayers made his mark as one of the NFL's best all-purpose running backs and was later celebrated for his enduring friendshi...
Sep 23, 2020 FILE - This is a 1970 file photo showing Chicago Bears football player Gale Sayers. Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, who made his mark as one of the NFL’s best all-purpose running backs and was later celebrated for his enduring friendship with a Chicago Bears teammate with cancer, has died. He was 77. Nicknamed “The Kansas Comet” and considered among the best open-field runners the game has ever seen, Sayers died Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. (AP Photo/FIle)
Thousands expected to honor Ginsburg at Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of people are expected to pay their respects at the Supreme Court to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the women's rights champion, leader of the court's liberal bloc a...
Sep 23, 2020 A memorial to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg includes a photograph of the late Justice, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, outside the Harvard Law School library at Langdell Hall, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Ginsburg, who attended Harvard law school but transferred to Columbia, died Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, at the age of 87. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Defendant accused of attack in Peoria County courtroom
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man with a history of violence and sexual assault is accused of attacking a Peoria County prosecutor. 37-year-old Torlando McDonald reportedly beat up an assistant state's attorney i...
Sep 23, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria City Council votes to help Civic Center with $4 million
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Civic Center will receive much needed assistance after the Peoria City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to assist the entertainment venue with $4 million in working ca...
Sep 22, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
'20-'21 MVC basketball schedules released for Bradley men, women
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Bradley Braves men's and women's basketball teams will begin their respective quests on New Year's Eve for Missouri Valley Conference glory. MVC schedules were released Tuesday for...
Sep 22, 2020 Bradley University
State COVID roundup 9/22: nearly 42k tested
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health on Tuesday reported 1,531 new coronavirus cases throughout the state. There were 30 additional deaths to report. 41,829 Illinoisans betwee...
Sep 22, 2020 Midwest Communications
Illinois now only Midwest state not playing high school football
PEORIA, Ill. -- Illinois is now the only state in the Midwest that is not playing high school football this fall. Minnesota State High School League Board of Directors voted Monday to move football an...
Sep 22, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 9/22: mark not seen since before Fourth of July
PEORIA, Ill. -- With no new deaths to report, 71 new positive COVID-19 tests highlighted Tuesday's report from the Peoria City/County Health Department. 36 of the cases were Tazewell County residents,...
Sep 22, 2020 Midwest Communications
