Category Archives: Local News
Reports of shooting at Knoxville, Tennessee high school with multiple victims -police
(Reuters) - Police in Knoxville, Tennessee said on Monday they were responding to reports of a shooting at a high school, with at least several victims. "Multiple gunshot victims reported, including a...
Rick Hirschmann Apr 12, 2021 Handout via REUTERS
Local COVID roundup 4/12: 10 deaths over the weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department (PCCHD) Monday reported 10 new area deaths due to COVID-19 over the weekend. Four deaths were Peoria County residents: a male in his 20s, a mal...
Dalton Kemper Apr 12, 2021 Midwest Communications
Woodford County Health Department announces "One and Done" vaccination clinic
GOODFIELD, Ill. -- The Woodford County Health Department (WCHD) is partnering with the Illinois National Guard Rapid Response Team to offer a vaccination clinic on Friday. The clinic will be held at C...
Dalton Kemper Apr 12, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
State COVID roundup 4/12: Over 7 million doses administered
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Monday reported more than 7 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Illinois. In addition, the rolling seve...
Dalton Kemper Apr 12, 2021 Midwest Communications
PCCHD offering COVID vaccinations at Heddington Oaks
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department is opening up COVID-19 vaccine appointment slots this week, April 13-17 at Heddington Oaks. The appointments are for first doses of the Moderna...
Julia Bradley Apr 12, 2021 Midwest Communications
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...
Julia Bradley 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...
Julia Bradley 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...
Julia Bradley 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 ...
Julia Bradley 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 ...
Julia Bradley 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