Category Archives: Local News
In despair, protesters take to streets for Breonna Taylor
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - People dismayed that the Louisville, Kentucky, officers who shot Breonna Taylor haven't be charged with her death have vowed to persist in their fight for justice. Many took to ...
Sep 25, 2020 Protesters march, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Authorities pleaded for calm while activists vowed to fight on Thursday in Kentucky's largest city, where a gunman wounded two police officers during anguished protests following the decision not to charge officers for killing Breonna Taylor. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Woman falls to her death at residential building
***UPDATE*** Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the woman as 34-year-old Pamela Krasner. Harwood said she died instantly from blunt force trauma. The circumstances of her fall remained...
Sep 24, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 9/24: 62,000 tests given
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Labs across Illinois between Wednesday and Thursday received 62,071 tests for COVID-19. During that time, 2,257 people throughout the state received positive tests, while the Illi...
Sep 24, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 9/24: Tazewell female dies
PEORIA, Ill. -- A woman from Tazewell County in her 70s has passed away from coronavirus complications, the county's 24th such death and the 74th for Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford, combined. The woma...
Sep 24, 2020 Midwest Communications
Area residents gather for opening ceremony of Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Area residents gathered Thursday, while observing facial covering and social distancing protocols, in East Peoria to attend the opening ceremony of the Vietnam Traveling Memorial ...
Sep 24, 2020 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Peoria library branches closed after employee tests positive for COVID
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public Library's North and Lakeview branches are closed after an employee tested positive for COVID-19. The Library's Executive Director Randall Yelverton said both branches wil...
Sep 24, 2020 MWC-Logo Credit - Peoria Public Library
Jobless claims at 870,000 as fraud and backlogs cloud data
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment aid rose slightly last week to 870,000, a historically high figure that shows that the viral pandemic is still squeezing restaurants, a...
Sep 24, 2020 Midwest Communications
Park district votes to remove Columbus statue from Bradley Park
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Park District voted 4-2 Wednesday night to remove a statue of explorer Christopher Columbus from Bradley Park, replacing it with green space. The move follows several town h...
Sep 24, 2020 (Peoria Park District)
Trump won't commit to peaceful transfer of power if he loses
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is declining to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election. "We're going to have to see what happens," Trump said Wedn...
Sep 24, 2020 President Donald Trump listens during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Dismay over Breonna Taylor spills into America's streets
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Anger, frustration and sadness over the decision not to charge Kentucky police officers for Breonna Taylor's death poured into America's streets as protesters lashed out at a cr...
Sep 24, 2020 Demonstrators march during a protest, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in New York, following a Kentucky grand jury's decision not to indict any police officers for the killing of Breonna Taylor. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
