Category Archives: Top Stories
Local COVID roundup 5/29: No local deaths reported in past 24 hours
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Tri-County region did not report any new deaths in the past 24 hours. Peoria County reported two additional confirmed cases bringing the total to 192. Tazewell reported one new con...
May 28, 2020 Midwest Communitcations
State COVID roundup 5/28: Pritzker addresses phase three of Restore Illinois
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Illinois has surpassed 5,000 deaths related to COVID-19. Dr. Ngozi Ezike with the Illinois Department of Public Health announced an additional 1,527 new cases of COVID-19, bringing th...
May 28, 2020 Midwest Communications
Par-A-Dice employees facing possible layoffs
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Layoffs are looming for employees of East Peoria's Par-A-Dice Casino. According to a letter sent to current employees, Boyd Gaming said between 25-60% of Par-A-Dice workers could ...
May 28, 2020 25 News
Violence again rocks Minneapolis after man's death; 1 killed
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Protests rocked Minneapolis for the second straight night Wednesday after a man's death in police custody. One person was killed in what police were investigating as a homicide amid...
May 28, 2020 Demonstrators gather during a protest Wednesday, May 27, 2020, in Los Angeles over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
Peoria crews battle garage fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called just before 2:45 a.m. Thursday to the 200 block of NE Rock Island Avenue on reports of a garage fire. Crews found a two-stall detached garage fully engu...
May 28, 2020 Midwest Communications
Illinois comptroller says legislators won't get pay raises
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza says the state's legislators will not be getting raises in the next budget year, which begins July 1. Mendoza made her decision known in a ...
May 28, 2020
Local COVID roundup 5/27: Tazewell County reports new COVID related death
PEORIA, Ill. -- Tazewell County is reporting an additional death related to COVID-19, a man in his 90's. The man did not live in a long term care facility before the diagnosis, but was a part of an ou...
May 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 5/27: Pritzker praises Illinois National Guard
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- Pritzker held his daily COVID-19 daily press conference downstate in East St. Louis to praise the work the Illinois National Guard does with drive-thru testing sites. Pritzker ...
May 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
2 U.S. astronauts arrive at launch pad for SpaceX launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - With thunderstorms threatening a delay, two NASA astronauts climbed aboard a SpaceX rocket ship Wednesday for liftoff on a history-making flight that was seen as a giant le...
May 27, 2020 (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
Floodwall remains on standby on Peoria's riverfront
PEORIA, Ill. -- A 2,000-foot sandbag wall on Peoria's Riverfront was put up last week to keep the Illinois River's floodwaters at bay. The river crested last Friday at 27.91 feet, but a flood warning ...
May 27, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Jeremy Scott
