Category Archives: Local News
Guns stolen in Creve Coeur Thursday morning
CREVE COEUR, Ill. -- One arrest has been made in a burglary that occurred around 2:00 a.m. Thursday morning which led to a total of nine firearms being stolen from Thompson's Trading Post in Creve Coe...
Dalton Kemper Oct 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
Pritzker sounds off on IHSA
CHICAGO -- After a tense Wednesday during which the Illinois High School Association announced it would defy orders from the Illinois Department of Public Health and Gov. J.B. Pritzker by going forwar...
Rick Hirschmann Oct 29, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Local COVID roundup 10/29: teetering on mitigation levels
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties belong to Region Two of Illinois, which was one of just two of the state's 11 regions as of Thursday afternoon not under mitigation restrictions...
Rick Hirschmann Oct 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
White Sox reunite with La Russa, hire Hall of Fame manager
CHICAGO (AP) - Tony La Russa, the Hall of Famer who won a World Series with the Oakland Athletics and two more with the St. Louis Cardinals, is returning to manage the Chicago White Sox 34 years after...
Rick Hirschmann Oct 29, 2020 AP Photo/Matt York, File
State COVID roundup 10/29: over 3,000 hospitalized
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- One day after Illinois set a new 24-hour high for COVID-19 cases, it repeated that action. Illinois Department of Public Health reported 6,363 people between Wednesday and Thursda...
Rick Hirschmann Oct 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
Jobless claims fall to 751,000, but new infections a threat
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 751,000, the lowest since March but a figure that remains historically high and indicates the viral pandemic i...
Julia Bradley Oct 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
Bride: Nearly 45,000 Peoria Co. residents have already voted
PEORIA, Ill. -- It's been busy, but pretty much smooth sailing for the Peoria County Election Commission, according to Executive Director Thomas Bride, just days ahead of the 2020 election. Bride told...
Julia Bradley Oct 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump, Biden to appeal to last-minute voters in Florida
Trump, Biden to appeal to last-minute voters in Florida TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden are set to chase votes in Florida, a state all but essential to the Rep...
Julia Bradley Oct 29, 2020 President Donald Trump waves to the crowd after speaking at a campaign rally at Phoenix Goodyear Airport Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, in Goodyear, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
3 dead in knife attack in French church; terrorism suspected
PARIS (AP) - An attacker armed with a knife killed three people at a church in the Mediterranean city of Nice, the third attack in two months in France. The assailant was shot by police and hospitaliz...
Julia Bradley Oct 29, 2020 French policemen stand next to Notre Dame church after a knife attack, in Nice, France, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. French anti-terrorism prosecutors are investigating a knife attack at a church in the Mediterranean city of Nice that killed two people and injured several others. (AP Photo/Alexis Gilli)
Arrest made in Tuesday night stabbing
PEORIA, Ill. -- An arrest has been made in the Tuesday night stabbing outside of Ulrich's Rebellion Room. Upon arrival at approximately 2:30 a.m., officers found an adult male with stab wounds to the ...
Dalton Kemper Oct 28, 2020 Midwest Communications