Category Archives: Local News
World hits 800,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths
NEW YORK - The world hit a grim coronavirus milestone Saturday with 800,000 confirmed deaths and close to 23 million confirmed cases. That's according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. Gove...
Aug 22, 2020 Midwest Communications
Corpse found along river, Tazewell Co. authorities ID body
***UPDATE*** Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley has identified the body as that of 42-year-old Phillip Winger. Pekin Police and Illinois State Police had issued an Endangered Missing Person Adviso...
Aug 22, 2020
Students say safety is out of Bradley's hands
PEORIA, Ill. -- When Bradley University begins classes on Wednesday, Aug. 24, students will be following social distancing and mask protocols in an effort to keep the virus out of classrooms. Students...
Aug 21, 2020 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Par-A-Dice possibly partnering with FanDuel for mobile sports betting
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- FanDuel will be entering the Illinois market for online sports gambling, and they might be partnering with Par-A-Dice Hotel Casino in East Peoria to do so. FanDuel posted informat...
Aug 21, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 8/21: lower increase than week's average
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties combined between Thursday and Friday for 70 new cases of COVID-19. Peoria County accounted for the largest increase, 32, Tazewell had 28 and Woo...
Aug 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
BU Prez says no tuition cuts; students sound off
PEORIA, Ill. -- Bradley President Stephen Standifird sent out an e-mail Thursday night to students, in which he addressed concerns over tuition and fees, with some classes set only to be offered onlin...
Aug 21, 2020
State COVID roundup 8/21: record testing numbers
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- COVID-19 cases throughout Illinois rose back above 2,000 as the state broke its own record between Thursday and Friday for the most tests ever conducted in one 24-hour period. The...
Aug 21, 2020 1470 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Pence criticizes DNC, previews themes for RNC convention
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Mike Pence says next week's Republican Party convention "will make sure the American people see the choice" between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden. Pre...
Aug 21, 2020 Vice President Mike Pence listens to a reporter's question during a meeting with President Donald Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Peoria's "Tireless Project" is back this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- Bring us your old, used tires. Peoria's "Tireless Project" was started four years ago as a way to solve the issue of illegally dumped and abandoned tires in the community. This month's...
Aug 21, 2020
Biden vows to defeat Trump, end US 'season of darkness'
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - Joe Biden has accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, vowing to take on national crises and declaring that "we will overcome this season of darkness." Biden's nominati...
Aug 21, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., watch fireworks during the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
