Category Archives: Local News
U.S. jobless rate falls to 50-year low of 3.5-percent
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. unemployment rate fell in September to a new five-decade low of 3.5-percent, while employers added a modest 136,000 jobs. The Labor Department says that despite the ultra-lo...
Oct 04, 2019 (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
8-year-old injured in early morning shooting in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police responded to two ShotSpotter alerts around 3:45 a.m. Friday from the 1200 block of N. Orange. Seven shots were fired. Around the same time, a call came in saying a child h...
Oct 04, 2019 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Decision looms: Keep or replace Smollett special prosecutor?
CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago judge is expected to decide whether to let a former U.S. attorney stay on as special prosecutor examining the dismissal of charges against actor Jussie Smollett. The hearing F...
Oct 04, 2019 FILE - In this March 26, 2019, file photo, actor Jussie Smollett talks to the media before leaving Cook County Court after his charges were dropped, in Chicago. The latest twist in the Jussie Smollett saga is the revelation of a possible conflict of interest by the special prosecutor investigating why prosecutors dropped charges accusing the actor of staging a racist, homophobic attack on himself. Dan Webb disclosed this week he once co-hosted a political fundraiser for a figure central to his investigation, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx. A Cook County judge must now decide if bias or the appearance of bias renders Webb's position untenable. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, File)
Data Breach At Area Hy-Vee Stores
PEORIA, Ill - Hy-Vee is warning its customers about a potential credit card data breach that dates back to 2018. The company says six locations may be affected by the breach. The breach includes The M...
Oct 03, 2019 MWC
Pence backs Trump on calls for Biden inquiries
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence is defending President Donald Trump's call that foreign governments investigate one of Trump's leading Democratic rivals. And Pence is echoing Trump's priva...
Oct 03, 2019 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Power Of Positive Thinking coming to Peoria Heights
PEORIA, Ill. - The Betty Jayne Brimmer Center for the Performing Arts is set to host a variety of programs. Three motivational speakers will be addressing "Profiting from Positivity in the Workplace",...
Oct 03, 2019 MWC
One-day rain record recorded
MINONK, Ill. -- Not lost in the wash of the end of September's rain madness was a local weather record. Woodford County recorded 9.09 inches of rain in a 24-hour span on September 27th and 28th. That ...
Oct 03, 2019 AP Photo/Orlin Wagner
Deadline looms for police academy
PEORIA, Ill. -- It's last call at the Peoria Police Department. The deadline to register for the PPD's Citizens' Police Academy was set for October 7th. A few spots as of Thursday were still available...
Oct 03, 2019 MWC-Peoria Police Media Release
New abortion clinic going up in Illinois, near St. Louis
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) - Planned Parenthood has quietly been building a new abortion clinic in Illinois, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, as Missouri women concerned about the un...
Oct 03, 2019 AP Photo/Jim Salter
Chicago teachers set strike date
CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Teachers Union said educators in the nation's third-largest school district will go on strike starting Oct. 17 if there's no deal on a contract. Union delegates met Wednesda...
Oct 03, 2019 AP Photo/M. Spencer Green
