Category Archives: Local News
Local COVID roundup 2/12: 4 people die
PEORIA, Ill. -- Tazewell County was hit hard by COVID during the Thursday-Friday reporting period, as four residents died. Two women in their 90s from Pekin Manor were among the casualties, as were a ...
Rick Hirschmann Feb 12, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 2/12: tenth of state immunized
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- 10% of Illinois has officially gotten at least one dose of the COVID-19 shot. A record-setting 95,375 people between Thursday and Friday received a vaccine. 2,598 people during th...
Rick Hirschmann Feb 12, 2021 Midwest Communications
Elderly woman crashes into Peoria CVS store
PEORIA, Ill. -- Two people were hospitalized Thursday night after a car collided with another vehicle and part of a Peoria pharmacy. Emergency crews were called around 7:15 p.m. to the CVS in the 6800...
Julia Bradley Feb 12, 2021 (25 News)
Trump's defense will make the case for his acquittal on inciting Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's defense lawyers will make their case on Friday why the former president is not guilty of inciting last month's deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, as the Senate race...
Julia Bradley Feb 12, 2021 Snow falls at the U.S. Capitol on the third day of senate impeachment hearings against former U.S. president Donald Trump in Washington, U.S. February 11, 2021. REUTERS/Erin Scott
Police arrest teens for Elevate fight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police have arrested eight teenagers for mob action and battery following a fight at the Elevate Trampoline Park last Saturday night. Peoria Public Information Officer Amy Dotso...
Julia Bradley Feb 12, 2021 (25 News)
Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party
(Reuters) - Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a cen...
Dalton Kemper Feb 11, 2021 REUTERS/Carlos Barria
No Friday in-person classes for Peoria schools; meals available
PEORIA, Ill. -- Because of forecasted freezing temperatures for Friday morning, Peoria Public Schools will not hold class in-person. The National Weather Service as of Thursday afternoon was forecasti...
Rick Hirschmann Feb 11, 2021 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Dream Center donation to help with new program
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network Thursday launched its "Care4RCommunity" initiative by celebrating National Donor Day with a donation to Dream Center Peoria. Gift of H...
Ben Pollard Feb 11, 2021 Ben Pollard/1470-100.3 WMBD
'Fighting for Trump:' Democrats say then-president set attackers on path to Capitol
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats making the case for Donald Trump's conviction in his Senate impeachment trial on a charge of inciting the deadly U.S. Capitol attack said on Thursday the former presid...
Rick Hirschmann Feb 11, 2021 REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Expert: Trump won't be convicted, but the trial still has substance
PEORIA, Ill. -- Former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial began on Wednesday after the United States Senate voted 56-44 in favor of the trial being constitutional. Bradley University po...
Dalton Kemper Feb 11, 2021 Midwest Communications, Inc.