Category Archives: Local News
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
Teen girl first reported death from Hurricane Laura
UNDATED (AP) - Hurricane Laura is headed toward Arkansas, where an unusual tropical storm warning has been issued for much of the state. Many schools that just reopened for the first time since March ...
Aug 27, 2020 (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
A woman passes on a street near businesses on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in downtown Lake Charles, La., in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura.
Over 1 million Americans join the ranks of the unemployed
WASHINGTON (AP) - Just over 1 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a sign that the coronavirus outbreak continues to threaten jobs even as the housing market, auto sales and ...
Aug 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
Fatal accident overnight in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- One person is dead following a late night crash in Peoria. Peoria Police responded to a single-vehicle accident in the 300 block of W. Glen, near the intersection with Knoxville, just ...
Aug 27, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Laura makes landfall in southwestern Louisiana near Texas
LAKE ARTHUR, La. (AP) - Laura has weakened to a Category 1 hurricane as its center moved deeper inland over Louisiana. That's no longer a major hurricane but it still has extremely dangerous winds hou...
Aug 27, 2020 This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, at 4:50 p.m. EDT., and provided by NOAA, shows Hurricane Laura over the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Laura strengthened Wednesday into “an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane," Laura is expected to struck Thursday morning along the Louisiana-Texas border. (NOAA via AP)
