Category Archives: Local News
Illinois extends unemployment benefits another 20 weeks
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Department of Employment Security has extended jobless benefits another 20 weeks as the state's unemployment numbers continue to soar because of the coronavirus p...
Aug 7, 2020 Midwest Communications
Kitchen fire injures resident
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters responded to smoke in a house around 1:00 p.m. Thursday at 2117 W. Ann St. Fire crews found plastic blinds in the kitchen that caught on fire after incense were lef...
Aug 6, 2020
May murder suspect in Peoria Police custody
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a May 13 murder. The PPD took into custody 23-year-old Devonte P. Thompson after detectives were tipped off Thursday afternoon ...
Aug 6, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 8/6: positivity rate back up
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Department of Public Health announced 1,953 additional cases of COVID-19 between Wednesday and Thursday, as well as 21 deaths. Labs statewide took in 41,686 specimens ove...
Aug 6, 2020 Midwest Communications
Commission rejects Trump push for add debate against Biden
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates has rejected a request from the Trump campaign to either add an additional general election debate or move up the calendar for the ...
Aug 6, 2020 AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Non-fatal shooting in the Heights
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. -- Peoria Heights Police were busy Thursday morning, attending to a shooting victim. A call came in around 10:45 regarding a male with a gunshot wound to his lower body in the 500...
Aug 6, 2020
Local COVID roundup 8/6: region hospitalization metric decreases
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department reported 69 new COVID-19 cases between Wednesday and Thursday throughout Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties. Six hospital beds were freed ...
Aug 6, 2020 Midwest Communications
Details of Taft Homes death still at issue
PEORIA, Ill. -- Carl Cannon, with Peoria Housing Authority, was shocked to hear about the passing of 61-year-old Hazel Turner last Friday night at Taft Homes. Cannon told WMBD's Greg and Dan, he was w...
Aug 6, 2020 (25 News)
In custody death at Peoria County Jail
***UPDATE*** Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood told WMBD News the autopsy on the inmate was inconclusive, and further tests would be conducted. However, Harwood did confirm the inmate's COVID-19 tes...
Aug 6, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Peoria historian/author Norm Kelly dies at 88
PEORIA, Ill. -- Local historian and well-known writer Norm Kelly passed away Tuesday, August 4 after a battle with cancer. He was 88. Kelly wrote a number of books about Peoria history, hundreds of sh...
Aug 6, 2020
