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Collaboration of UnityPoint Health/Springfield Clinic will benefit patients
PEORIA, Ill. -- Springfield Clinic and UnityPoint Health --Central Illinois have announced a clinical collaboration agreement between the health systems in the Peoria area, including UnityPoint's thre...
Apr 12, 2021 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
State COVID roundup 4/11: Nearly 3,000 new cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health on Sunday reported 2,942 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, including 16 additional deaths. W...
Apr 12, 2021 Midwest Communications
Analysis: Police testimony, bystander accounts bolster prosecution case in Chauvin murder trial
(Reuters) - Prosecutors will rest their case this week against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, bolstered by police testimony and emotional eyewitness desc...
Apr 12, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Chicago-based breathing expert Dr. Martin Tobin is questioned by prosecutor Jerry Blackwell, while Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill presides as images of George Floyd's arrest play on a screen, on the ninth day of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. April 8, 2021 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
UPDATE: Driver identified in fatal Peoria County crash
UPDATE 5:45 p.m. -- Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the driver who died as 34-year-old David Carman of Kewanee. According to Illinois State Police, Carman was travelling southbound ...
Apr 12, 2021 Midwest Communications
Police fatally shoot Black man in traffic stop near Minneapolis, protests erupt
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (Reuters) -Protests erupted against police when an officer fatally shot a young Black man after stopping his vehicle for a traffic violation on Sunday about 10 miles from where ...
Apr 12, 2021 Cortez Rice holds up the rubber bullet that hit him in his side during a confrontation with police after police allegedly shot and killed a man, who local media report is identified by the victim's mother as Daunte Wright, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, U.S., April 11, 2021. REUTERS/Nick Pfosi
Morton District 709 weekly COVID update: Cases up, quarantines down
MORTON, Ill. -- Morton Community Unit District 709 Superintendent Jeffrey Hill said in his weekly news release COVID-19 cases are up among students, but the number of students in quarantine is down. A...
Apr 11, 2021
Gov. Pritzker talks Illinois vaccination rates, increasing hospitalizations
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- New daily COVID-19 cases in Illinois rose above 4,000 Friday for the first time since January. In addition, around 1,800 people in Illinois were hospitalized with the virus. The g...
Apr 10, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Doctor who performed George Floyd autopsy stands by homicide conclusion
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -The medical examiner who performed the autopsy on George Floyd after last May's deadly arrest explained how he concluded the death was a homicide at the hands of police in testi...
Apr 10, 2021 REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Local COVID roundup 4/9: Region under 20% ICU capacity
PEORIA, Ill. -- Region 2 of Illinois has now slipped below 20% ICU bed capacity, as just 19% of ICU beds in the region were available as of Friday afternoon. The Peoria City/County Health Department r...
Apr 09, 2021 Midwest Communications
Bradley receives 1,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from Peoria City/County Health Department
PEORIA, Ill. -- Bradley University will be holding vaccination clinics Monday, April 12 and Tuesday, April 13 in the Markin Center after receiving 1,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine from the Peoria Ci...
Apr 09, 2021 Midwest Communications
