Category Archives: Local News
Peoria crews battle house fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters responded just before 11 p.m. Thursday to a house fire in the 4000 block of N. University. Fire Battalion Chief Steve Rada said a resident noticed sparks coming fro...
Feb 05, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. House punishes Republican congresswoman over incendiary remarks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of two high-profile committee assignments on Thursday, punishing the Republican congresswoman for incendi...
Feb 04, 2021 REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo
Health Department provides more vax registration info
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department Thursday outlined additional COVID-19 vaccine registration protocols during its weekly coronavirus news conference. Public Health Administrator...
Feb 04, 2021 Ben Pollard/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 2/4: 1 area death
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria County man in his 70s passed away between Wednesday and Thursday from COVID-19 complications. 134 area residents received positive test results, as well. Peoria County account...
Feb 04, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 2/4: Positivity rate holding steady
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Thursday reported the seven-day rolling positivity rate across the state continues to remain mostly steady. Wednesday, that rate wa...
Feb 04, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. Senate Democrats set for first step on road to new COVID-19 relief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Senate were poised on Thursday to take a first step toward the ultimate passage of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal, in a marat...
Feb 04, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks on the U.S. response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., December 29, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Pekin residents displaced by apartment fire
PEKIN, Ill. -- Five people were displaced early Thursday morning by an apartment fire in Pekin. Pekin firefighters and emergency crews were called to the 200 block of Cooper Street just before 5 a.m. ...
Feb 04, 2021 (25 News)
U.S. weekly jobless claims grind lower as labor market stabilizes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits decreased last week, suggesting that the labor market was stabilizing as authorities started to loosen ...
Feb 04, 2021 FILE PHOTO: People wait in line at a stand during the Executive Branch Job Fair hosted by the Conservative Partnership Institute at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, U.S., June 15, 2018. REUTERS/Toya Sarno Jordan
104.9 The Wolf kicks off 31st Country Cares Radiothon
PEORIA, Ill. -- On Thursday morning, Midwest Communications' 104.9 The Wolf kicked off its 31st Country Cares For St. Jude Kids Radiothon. The Wolf's Brand Manager Dr. Chris Michaels has been involved...
Feb 04, 2021 (Midwest Communications)
E.P. officer involved in fatal shooting released from the hospital
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- A police officer injured in an officer-involved fatal shooting in East Peoria Tuesday morning has been released from the hospital. Illinois State Police said the officer, stabbed ...
Feb 04, 2021 (25 News)
