Category Archives: Local News
PPD opens Resource Center in the East Bluff
PEORIA, Ill. -- A police presence in the East Bluff. Peoria Police on Wednesday, July 8, opened a new Police Resource Center in the 2300 block of N. Wisconsin in the former Kroger building, now owned ...
Jul 8, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
Confirmed coronavirus cases in US hit 3 million and climbing
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus has hit 3 million, according to the count kept by Johns Hopkins University. But U.S. health officials say the real number of infecti...
Jul 8, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump threatens to cut federal aid if schools don't reopen
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold federal money if schools don't reopen in the fall. He says the guidelines that his own federal health officials have created for sc...
Jul 8, 2020 MWC-Fox News Photo Credit
PPS Chief of Resource Officers wins national recognition
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public Schools' Chief of Resource Officers, Demario Boone, has won a national award for school safety in K-12 schools from Campus Safety Magazine. "I've been on the street befor...
Jul 8, 2020 Peoria Public Schools
Early morning shooting in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called around 3:40 a.m. Wednesday to the scene of a shooting in the 1200 block of W. Millman. Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said a ShotSpotter alert indicate...
Jul 8, 2020
Fire fighters battle extreme heat in an afternoon apartment fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Firefighter/Paramedics were called out around 2:00 p.m. Tuesday to a reported structure fire at 2700 W. Willowlake Drive. Fire crew found a three-story apartment complex with he...
Jul 7, 2020 Midwest Communications
East Peoria sees movement on Intersection Improvement Project
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- A new traffic project will likely begin soon in East Peoria. Commissioners voted unanimously at Tuesday night's City Council meeting to move forward with its discussion regarding ...
Jul 7, 2020 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Income tax filing & payment deadline are days away
SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR) reminds taxpayers the state individual income tax filing and payment deadline is July 15th. This year's deadline was extended three months by G...
Jul 7, 2020 AP Photo/LM Otero, File
State COVID roundup 7/7: slightly fewer tests coming back positive
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois's rolling seven-day positivity rate for COVID-19 has decreased slightly. The Illinois Department of Public Health said the rate declined marginally, from 2.6% to 2.5%, fr...
Jul 7, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 7/7: increase of 8
PEORIA, Ill. -- Eight newly-confirmed coronavirus cases in the Peoria-Tazewell-Woodford tri-county brought the area's overall total on Tuesday to 757. Breaking that number down further, Peoria County ...
Jul 7, 2020 Midwest Communications
