Category Archives: Local News
Peoria hospitals seeing 'more sick COVID-19 patients than ever before'
Peoria, Ill -- Hospitals and medical centers across the Peoria area are under heavy strain amidst an unprecedented wave of incoming COVID-19 patients as well as ongoing staffing shortages. The quote f...
Jan 5, 2022 1470/100.3 WMBD-Mike Sabol
Attendance limited at PPS games due to COVID outbreak
PEORIA, Ill. - We're just now learning about a change in policy regarding extra-curricular activities in Peoria Public Schools that some parents might have already known about, due to the local rise i...
Jan 5, 2022 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Pritzker working remotely following exposure to state employee with COVID-19
CHICAGO, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker will be working remotely the rest of the week. Pritzker's office says the Governor came "in close contact" on Tuesday with a state employee who has tested...
Jan 5, 2022 State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service
State pays back COVID-19 related loan early, saving money
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - It's something the State of Illinois has been doing a lot of in recent years, and is doing again. The state has paid back a federal COVID-19-related loan that was used to pay medic...
Jan 5, 2022 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Man charged in stabbing death of state DCFS worker
THAYER, Ill. - A state employee was stabbed to death in a Springfield-area home Tuesday night. According to FOX-TV affiliate WRSP, Deidre Silas, 36, of Springfield, was stabbed inside a home in Thayer...
Jan 5, 2022 Sangamon Co. Sheriffs Dept.
Bitter cold raises awareness of in-home pipe bursts and water main breaks
Peoria, Ill -- Illinois American Water continues monitoring their system for water main breaks as bitter cold puts pressure on pipes all across the region. As of mid-day Wednesday, there was no notice...
Jan 5, 2022
UnityPoint Health suspending elective procedures at area hospitals
PEORIA, Ill. -- UnityPoint Health-Central Illinois is suspending all elective procedures. Hospital officials said in a statement on Wednesday, that due to an increase in positive COVID inpatient admis...
Jan 5, 2022 1470-100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
FOLEPI sets new attendance record in 2021
PEORIA, Ill. -- For a second year in a row, East Peoria's Festival of Lights saw a huge number of visitors in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. But that wasn't the only obstacle in the way for the s...
Jan 5, 2022 Rick Hirschmann/1470-100.3 WMBD
Sheriffs Department wants more information on fatal New Years Day hit-and-run
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - We're learning more about the fatal New Year's Day accident in rural Peoria County that claimed the life of a man, but detectives say they need more help. The accident occurred S...
Jan 4, 2022 Midwest Communications
Apartment building in Washington total loss following fire
WASHINGTON, Ill. - A three-apartment house in Washington is a loss following a fire Tuesday morning. Washington Fire Chief Brett Brown tells our news partner 25 News fire broke out in the 100 block of...
Jan 4, 2022 25 News
