Category Archives: Local News
O'Brien Steel deals with Wed. A.M. blaze
PEORIA, Ill. -- An exhaust hopper was the source of a Wednesday morning fire at O'Brien Steel. Peoria Firefighter/Paramedics responded just before 11 to the business at 1700 NE Adams. The fire, which ...
Jun 09, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Local COVID roundup 6/9: 24-hour death count high, new cases dwindle
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria and Woodford Counties between Tuesday and Wednesday lost two residents, apiece, to COVID-19 complications. In Peoria, a woman in her 60s and a man in his 80s died. Both Woodford...
Jun 09, 2021 Midwest Communications
Biden drops Trump attempt to ban TikTok, WeChat; orders new review
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Wednesday withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok, and ordered a Commerce Department review o...
Jun 09, 2021 REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Crews battle house fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Firefighters and Paramedics were called to a residential fire just after 2:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 900 block of W. Virginia. First crews on the scene found black smoke coming f...
Jun 09, 2021 Midwest Communications
PPD nabs suspected murderer of missing man
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man was taken Tuesday into Peoria Police custody on two counts related to murder of a man who'd been missing since early March. 32-year-old Gabriel Cook was reported to the Peoria Co...
Jun 08, 2021 Midwest Communications
Biden shifts infrastructure talks to new bipartisan Senate group
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday broke off talks on an infrastructure bill with a key Republican, instead reaching out to a bipartisan group, after one-on-one talks with Senator S...
Jun 08, 2021 REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Peoria Council member suggests mental facility project
PEORIA, Ill. -- After the Peoria County Board announced last April it would be closing long-term care facility Heddington Oaks, November General Election voters gave approval to sell the property. How...
Jun 08, 2021 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 6/8: Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford each record 1 death
PEORIA, Ill. -- Each of the three counties comprising the Peoria City/County Health Department's reporting area between Monday and Tuesday recorded a COVID-19-related death. In Peoria County, a woman ...
Jun 08, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 6/8: another count under 800
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- In total, 365 Illinoisans between Monday and Tuesday tested positive for coronavirus. 11 died from related complications. 791 people as of Monday night were in hospital beds throu...
Jun 08, 2021 Midwest Communications
Illinois launching online car insurance verification
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Secretary of State Jesse White's office is launching a new initiative to help reduce the number of uninsured drivers in Illinois. Beginning July 1, auto insurance verification wil...
Jun 08, 2021 Midwest Communications
