Category Archives: Local News
Federal prosecutors weigh hate crime charges in Arbery death
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - The Justice Department said Monday that federal prosecutors are weighing possible hate crime charges in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man gunned down after being pursued b...
May 11, 2020 (Glynn County Detention Center via AP)
MLB propose starting season in July
NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball owners gave the go-ahead Monday to making a proposal to the players' union that could lead to the coronavirus-delayed season starting around the Fourth of July we...
May 11, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Bradley committed to resume on-campus classes for fall semester
PEORIA, Ill. -- The spring 2020 semester of college has been switched up for students, but Bradley University is committed to bringing students back to campus in the fall. Renee Charles, Bradley Unive...
May 11, 2020 MWC-Bradley Campus 2020
BU introduces ticket initiative for local health-care workers
PEORIA, Ill. -- In honor of central Illinois' health-care workers efforts in the fight against COVID-19, the Bradley University Athletic Department has announced an initiative to show them appreciatio...
May 11, 2020 Bradley University
Aide to Pritzker tests positive for COVID-19
(AP) -- Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's office says a senior staff member has tested positive for COVID-19, but the governor has tested negative. The first-term Democrat's office released a statement Mo...
May 11, 2020
Self-employed now qualify for unemployment benefits
PEORIA, Ill. -- Beginning Monday, May 11, the self-employed can apply for unemployment benefits from the federal government. Chris Setti, CEO of the Greater Peoria Economic Development Council, told W...
May 11, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria Diocese announced successor to Bishop Jenky
THE VATICAN -- The Peoria Catholic Diocese has announced Pope Francis has appointed a Pastor from the Archdiocese of Chicago to become the Coadjutor Bishop of the Peoria Catholic Diocese, and the Dioc...
May 11, 2020 MWC-Photo Provided by Catholic Diocese of Peoria
Comedian Jerry Still dies at 92
NEW YORK (AP) - Comedian Jerry Stiller has died at 92. His son Ben Stiller said the actor died of natural causes in a tweet posted early Monday. Jerry Stiller began his career in the 1950s as the part...
May 11, 2020 In this Feb. 11, 2011, photo, Ben Stiller, left, and his father Jerry Stiller arrive at the Help Haiti benefit honoring Sean Penn hosted by the Stiller Foundation and The J/P Haitian Relief Organization, in New York. Comedian veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show “Seinfeld,” died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
Pritzker defends extended order, faces salon owner lawsuit
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois' governor is defending his stay-at-home order and plans to reopen, saying the state residents will have to change the way things are done until the coronavirus is "eradicated."...
May 10, 2020 Illinois.gov
Trump advisers cite need to stop 'permanent' economic toll
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers are stressing the importance of states getting more businesses and offices to open during the pandemic. Their pitch comes as th...
May 10, 2020 Midwest Communications
