Category Archives: Local News
Police respond to crash involving school bus
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police closed east bound Charter Oak Road at Orange Prairie around 7:20 a.m. Friday due to an accident. Thomas Bruch, Director of Public Relations and Community Engagement for P...
Sep 17, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Washington man sentenced to 37 years for 2019 murder
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. -- 53-year-old Daniel Allbritton was sentenced to 37 years in prison on Thursday. The Washington man plead guilty on Aug. 5 to first-degree murder in the 2019 death of John Tyler...
Sep 17, 2021 (Tazewell County Jail)
U.S. COVID-19 booster debate moves to FDA vaccine advisory committee
(Reuters) - The debate over whether Americans should receive a booster dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine moves to a panel of independent expert advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administra...
Sep 17, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A person receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a mobile inoculation site in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, U.S., August 18, 2021. REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado
Chauvin, convicted in Floyd's murder, pleads not guilty to violating teen's rights
(Reuters) - The former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd pleaded not guilty on Thursday to violating a teenager's civil rights by using a neck restraint similar to the one...
Sep 17, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses his sentencing hearing and the judge as he awaits his sentence after being convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. June 25, 2021 in a still image from video. Pool via REUTERS
COVID cases increase in the Tri-Counties, but not among young children
PEORIA, Ill. - While local COVID-19 cases are continuing to increase somewhat, local health officials say there's one age group that, thankfully, isn't that impacted yet. Other areas of the country ha...
Sep 16, 2021 Peoria City/County Health Department via Facebook
Pritzker blames local officials for continued COVID-19 mitigations
CHICAGO, Ill. - It remains not the most popular statement Illinois Governor JB Pritzker will ever make, but Pritzker is again urging residents to "mask up." Pritzker says while the state's COVID-19 nu...
Sep 16, 2021 State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service
Brush fire on I-74 being investigated
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Fire officials say a late-morning brush fire that caused some problems on Interstate 74 may be intentional. The brush fire was first reported around 10:30 A.M. Thursday on the in...
Sep 16, 2021 Illinois Department of Transportation
State encourages replacing defective license plates
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - If your Illinois license plate is in bad shape, the State says it's probably time to replace it. If it's defective, that license plate can be replaced for free from the Illinois Se...
Sep 16, 2021 Illinois Secretary of State
U.S. retail sales unexpectedly rise in August; weekly jobless claims climb
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales unexpectedly increased in August, likely boosted by back-to-school shopping and child tax credit payments from the government, which could temper expectations ...
Sep 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective masks shop at Macy's Herald Square following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., December 26, 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo
Biden backs top general Milley after reported 'secret' calls with China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind the top U.S. military officer, Mark Milley, a day after a new book said he went around civilian leaders to place secret ...
Sep 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Army General Mark Milley holds a news briefing at Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., August 18, 2021. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo
