Category Archives: Top Stories
Carver Arena housing region of 64-team hoops tourney
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Civic Center will play regional host to a 64-team televised ESPN basketball tournament worth $1 million. "The Basketball Tournament" is scheduled for Jul. 24-28 in Peoria, an...
Apr 14, 2021 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Federal Bureau of Prisons says Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff has passed away
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Bernard Madoff, who was convicted for running the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, died on Wednesday in federal prison where he was serving a 150-year sentence, the Bureau of...
Apr 14, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Accused swindler Bernard Madoff exits the Manhattan federal court house in New York, U.S. on January 14, 2009. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
U.S. CDC to weigh rare clot risk with J&J's COVID-19 vaccine as use paused
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. health advisory panel on Wednesday is set to review six reported cases of rare blood clots in women who received Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine one day after fe...
Apr 14, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Vials with a sticker reading, "COVID-19 / Coronavirus vaccine / Injection only" and a medical syringe are seen in front of a displayed Johnson & Johnson logo in this illustration taken October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Peorian sentenced for murder of infant daughter
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria man has been convicted for the death of his 6-month-old daughter. According to Peoria County Court records, 21-year-old Kyle Purser pleaded guilty to First Degree Murder yeste...
Apr 14, 2021 (Peoria County Jail)
Use-of-force expert testifies that Chauvin justified in deadly arrest of Floyd
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -Defense attorneys in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin on Tuesday called an expert witness who testified that the former Minneapolis police officer was justified and reasonable ...
Apr 14, 2021 Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin attends the eleventh day of his trial for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd with his defense attorney Eric Nelson in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. April 12, 2021 in a still image from video. Pool via REUTERS
Peoria Council lays groundwork to legalize raffles, poker runs
PEORIA, Ill. -- A first reading of an ordinance to permit poker runs and raffles within Peoria city limits passed unanimously Tuesday night through city council. The Illinois Raffles and Poker Runs Ac...
Apr 13, 2021
UPDATE: Music festival extended to three days after Wallen pulls out; new headliners tapped
***UPDATE*** 4/14/21 11 A.M. The three-day lineup has been released. Florida Georgia Line has been added as the Thursday headliner, while Jon Pardi will headline Saturday. Sam Hunt remains on the bill...
Apr 13, 2021
UPDATE: Man found dead in woods identified as missing person
UPDATE 1:30 p.m. -- The man found in the woods Tuesday afternoon has been identified by Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood as 39-year-old Antwan Freeman. A missing persons report was filed regarding ...
Apr 13, 2021 Midwest Communications
Dead body found in Pekin fire; murder ruled
***UPDATE*** 4/13/21 3 P.M. Ingles said the fire was the result of a first degree murder. The deceased has been identified as 31-year-old Kailey Windish. Pekin Police and the Pekin Fire Department col...
Apr 13, 2021 Tazewell County Sheriff's Office
Local COVID roundup 4/13: hospital beds in use drop by double digits
PEORIA, Ill. -- A combined three people from Peoria and Woodford Counties between Monday and Tuesday passed away from COVID-19. In Woodford County, a man in his 70s and one in his 80s both succumbed t...
Apr 13, 2021 Midwest Communications
