Category Archives: Local News
Finding a new way to kick off Pride Month
PEORIA, Ill. -- June is National Pride Month and while Peoria Proud can not have parade, they thought of another plan. Trevor Neff, Vice President of Business for Peoria Proud, said this year they wil...
May 29, 2020 Peoria Proud
Local COVID roundup 5/29: only two ICU beds in use
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria-Tazewell-Woodford tri-county area has broken the 300 mark of COVID-19 positive cases, with 309. Meanwhile, ICU bed usage in the tri-county as of Friday was down to two, both...
May 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 5/29: Contact tracing is part of the new normal
CHICAGO -- Dr. Ngozi Ezike said Friday while restrictions are being lifted and Illinois moves into phase three of Restore Illinois, residents still must take personal responsibility such as social dis...
May 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
Joblessness up all across Illinois
PEORIA, Ill. -- In a stark showing of the impact of COVID-19, the Peoria Metro area was more than four times as jobless in April 2020 as it was in April 2019. Unemployment statistics releaed Friday sh...
May 29, 2020
CityLink extending fixed route bus service
PEORIA, Ill. -- As local businesses reopen in phase three of the Restore Illinois Plan, CityLink is extending its fixed route bus service effective June 1. CityLink Spokesperson Emily Watson said Mond...
May 29, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
CNN crew arrested while reporting in Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota State Patrol on Friday arrested a CNN television crew as they reported on violent protests in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man w...
May 29, 2020 A protester carries a U.S. flag upside, a sign of distress, next to a burning building Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis. Protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody Monday, broke out in Minneapolis for a third straight night. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Road rage leads to gunfire on I-74
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- Shots were fired at a vehicle Thursday night on eastbound I-74. Peoria County Sheriff Brian Asbell said the incident was a result of road rage. "Sheriff's Deputies responded Thu...
May 29, 2020
George Floyd protesters set Minneapolis police station afire
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Protesters angered by the death of a black man who died while pleading for air as a white police officer kneeled on his neck have torched a Minneapolis police station that the depar...
May 29, 2020 Protestors demonstrate outside of a burning fast food restaurant, Friday, May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis. Protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody Monday, broke out in Minneapolis for a third straight night. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Man admits guilt in relation to Peoria child shooting death
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man has admitted responsibility for the shooting death last Wednesday of 8-year-old Jordin Wilson. 35-year-old Robert L. Harris turned himself into police Wednesday around 11:30 A.M....
May 28, 2020 Peoria Police Department
Local COVID roundup 5/29: No local deaths reported in past 24 hours
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Tri-County region did not report any new deaths in the past 24 hours. Peoria County reported two additional confirmed cases bringing the total to 192. Tazewell reported one new con...
May 28, 2020 Midwest Communitcations
