Category Archives: Local News
High school traditions will still look different in Spring 2021
PEORIA, Ill. -- High school events were deterred in Spring 2020 when COVID-19 hit the United States, forcing administrators to cancel events like prom, senior night and graduation. This year, those ev...
Mar 10, 2021 Midwest Communications
2 ADM employees trapped in grain elevator
PEORIA, Ill. -- There was a scary hour Wednesday afternoon for a pair of Archer Daniels Midland employees, as they got trapped in a grain elevator. Peoria Firefighter/Paramedics responded around 2:20 ...
Mar 10, 2021 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 3/10: tri-county numbers low
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria County man in his 80s passed away between Tuesday and Wednesday from coronavirus complications. The Woodford County Health Department during the reporting period added two dea...
Mar 10, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 3/10: 7-day average reaches almost 100K shots given
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- With over 104,000 doses of the various COVID-19 vaccines administered between Tuesday and Wednesday throughout Illinois, the state has inched almost to a rolling seven-day average...
Mar 10, 2021 Midwest Communications
Senate confirms Biden nominee Garland as U.S. attorney general
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to confirm Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden's nominee for attorney general, as the federal appellate judge won the support ...
Mar 10, 2021 Drew Angerer/Pool via REUTERS
Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill wins final approval in House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives gave final approval on Wednesday to one of the largest economic stimulus measures in U.S. history, a sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill tha...
Mar 10, 2021 REUTERS/Erin Scott
Update: Wednesday morning fire came from scrap pile
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police and firefighters were called to an area near the Adams St. overpass just after 10 a.m. Wednesday for a fire. Plumes of black smoke could be seen coming from Allied Iron a...
Mar 10, 2021 (IDOT)
U.S. to procure additional 100 million doses of J&J COVID-19 vaccine: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States plans to double its order of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, procuring an additional 100 million doses, a White House official said ...
Mar 10, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A vial of the Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is seen at Northwell Health's South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, New York, U.S., March 3, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
CBS News veteran Roger Mudd, who derailed a Kennedy with one question, dead at 93
(Reuters) - Roger Mudd, the longtime CBS News political correspondent who famously helped sink Edward Kennedy's White House ambitions by asking in an interview why the senator wanted to be president, ...
Mar 10, 2021 CBS correspondent Roger Mudd poses in advance of Election Night '74 on October 8, 1974. Picture taken October 8, 1974. CBS Photo Archive/Handout via REUTERS.
Peoria neighborhood evacuated due to gas leak
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday to the 1800 block of N. Bigelow on reports of a gas leak. Ameren crews, that were already on the scene, detected a strong level...
Mar 10, 2021
