Category Archives: Local News
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
IDPH: 1,656 new cases of COVID-19 in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health Sunday announced 1,656 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19), including 57 additional deaths. Director of the IDPH, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, sai...
May 10, 2020 Midwest Communications
Tri-County area sees two new cases, 81 patients recover from COVID-19
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria County Health Department on Sunday reported two additional COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number in the Tri-County area to 210. There are now 138 positive cases of COVID...
May 10, 2020 Midwest Communications
OSF Saint Francis bringing back elective services
PEORIA, Ill. -- OSF HealthCare will restart non-emergency procedures and surgical services at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center beginning Monday. In a release on Saturday, OSF HealthCare said the hospi...
May 09, 2020 1470/100.3 WMBD-Mike Sabol
Rock 'n' Roll pioneer Little Richard dies at 87
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Little Richard, the self-proclaimed "architect of rock 'n' roll," has died. He was 87. Pastor Bill Minson, a close friend of Little Richard's, told The Associated Press that Li...
May 09, 2020 FILE PHOTO: Entertainer Little Richard performs at the Crossroad festival in Gijon, northern Spain, July 23, 2005. REUTERS/Alonso Gonzalez/File Photo
Trump says 'no rush' on more aid as jobless crisis grows
WASHINGTON (AP) - The next financial rescue plan may not show up for a while. President Donald Trump says he's in "no rush" to negotiate another financial rescue bill. His comments come even as the go...
May 09, 2020 MWC-Fox News Photo Credit
Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy dies from coronavirus
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Magician Roy Horn of the famed Las Vegas act Siegfried & Roy has died of complications from the coronavirus. He was 75. Publicist Dave Kirvin said in a statement that Horn died Fr...
May 09, 2020 FILE PHOTO: Entertainer Roy Horn poses as he arrives for Elizabeth Taylor's 75th birthday party at the Ritz-Carlton in Lake Las Vegas, in Henderson, Nevada February 27, 2007. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Picture
