Category Archives: Local News
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
Fire dept. makes river rescue
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Firefighter/Paramedics were called to a potentially scary scene Thursday afternoon near the McClugage Bridge. Crews received word around 2:00 a catamaran boat had capsized at th...
Aug 27, 2020 MWC- PHOTO CREDIT - THE MCCLUGAGE BRIDGE PROJECT
State COVID roundup 8/27: hospitalizations, ventilator use rise
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Department of Public Health on Thursday reported 1,707 new cases of COVID-19. During the Wednesday-to-Thursday reporting period, 24 passed away from the virus. The rollin...
Aug 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
K-8 school reports first COVID case
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. -- Days after Illinois Valley Central High School reported its first case of COVID-19, another building inside Illinois Valley School District 321 has recorded its first case. Superi...
Aug 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
IHSA: Fall sports to end with "entry-level" tournaments
Bloomington, Ill. -- The Illinois High School Association has taken heat on a recent decision to forgo state championships for all fall sports. IHSA Executive Director Craig Anderson told WMBD's Greg ...
Aug 27, 2020
