Category Archives: Local News
Chadwick Boseman, who embodied Black icons, dies of cancer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - First Chadwick Boseman slipped on the cleats of Jackie Robinson, then the Godfather of Soul's dancing shoes, portraying both Black American icons with a searing intensity that comma...
Aug 29, 2020 (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this March 4, 2018 file photo, Chadwick Boseman arrives at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, has died of cancer. His representative says Boseman died Friday, Aug. 28, 2020 in Los Angeles after a four-year battle with colon cancer. He was 43.
State COVID roundup 8/28: positivity rate remains steady
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Friday announced 2,149 new cases of COVID-19, including 20 additional deaths. The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity rate c...
Aug 28, 2020 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Par-A-Dice and FanDuel officially launch partnership
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Confirming speculation last week, Par-A-Dice Casino has officially launched its sports betting partnership with FanDuel Sportsbook. It is only the third sports betting app in the ...
Aug 28, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 8/28: recovery rate, hospitalizations both have increase
PEORIA, Ill. -- The tri-county recovery rate from COVID-19 continued its recent precipitous climb upwards, according to the Friday report from the Peoria City/County Health Department. After being in ...
Aug 28, 2020 Midwest Communications
IDOT undertaking three additional Peoria-area projects
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Transportation has announced three new local 2020 construction projects. Two of the blueprints involve patching and resurfacing on Interstate 74. One wi...
Aug 28, 2020 Midwest Communications
Update: Victim of fatal crash in Peoria identified
Update: Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the victim of a single-vehicle crash Wednesday on W. Glen as 46-year-old Christopher Parr of Peoria. Parr crashed on the 300 block of W. Glen...
Aug 28, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump wraps up RNC on White House stage
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden as a hapless career politician who will endanger Americans' safety as he accepted his party's renomination on the South Lawn of the White Hou...
Aug 28, 2020 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump speaks from the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Washington.
Discussions continue on renaming some PPS buildings
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Public Schools Building Committee has begun discussions to change certain building names. In 2017, discussion began about renaming Woodrow Wilson Elementary, due to racial r...
Aug 27, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 8/27: recovery rate rises above 70%
PEORIA, Ill. -- Tazewell County had the highest amount of new COVID-19 cases in the tri-county during the Wednesday-to-Thursday reporting period, according to the Peoria City/County Health Department....
Aug 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria County Sheriff's Deputy out on bond after Wednesday arrest
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria County Sheriff's Deputy Matthew Hawkins has been released on bail following his Wednesday arrest. News partner 25 News reports that officials with the Peoria County Circuit Cler...
Aug 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
