Category Archives: Local News
Driver arrested, another sought, following alleged street race accident
UPDATE - PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria police are looking for the driver of a vehicle which may be connected to an accident that sent three people to a local hospital with serious to critical injuries. The ac...
Sep 5, 2021 Peoria Police Department
Area health needs assessment being updated
PEORIA, Ill. - The COVID-19 pandemic isn't the only health concern for the health departments in the Tri-County and the area's other medical entities. Monica Hendrickson, administrator of the Peoria C...
Sep 5, 2021 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Percentage of pregnant women vaccinated against COVID-19 'alarmingly low'
PEORIA, Ill. - (OSF HealthCare) - As the delta variant becomes more common, now making up 99% of cases in the U.S., OSF HealthCare frontline doctors are seeing more and more cases of pregnant women ad...
Sep 5, 2021 Supplied photo: OSF HealthCare
Memorial workout at Morton fitness center
MORTON, Ill - (25 News ) - A fitness center in Morton hosted a memorial workout for the 13 service members killed in a suicide bombing at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan. BRelentless Training and Sports ...
Sep 5, 2021 25 News
Homeowner transported to hospital after house fire
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria house fire results in one person being transported to a hospital. The fire was reported at 8:47 p.m. Friday at 610 East Corrington. Firefighters found the back of the one-and-a...
Sep 4, 2021 Midwest Communications
Gov. Pritzker extends mandatory vaccine deadline
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. JB Pritzker and Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike Friday announced a two-week extension of vaccination requirements for individuals in high...
Sep 3, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Pritzker signs executive order to address homelessness
CHICAGO, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has issued another executive order. But he says this one will deal with the growing problem of homelessness. The Governor says he's establishing a task fo...
Sep 3, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Peoria Ameren workers among those assisting with power restoration after Ida
PEORIA, Ill. -- A caravan of Ameren Illinois bucket and line trucks arrived in Louisiana Friday to support power restoration efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, including two Peoria crew member...
Sep 3, 2021 Courtesy: Ameren Illinois
160 Illinois National Guard members being used in Ida relief
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. JB Pritzker announced Friday approximately 160 members of the Illinois Army National Guard are being activated in support of Hurricane Ida relief efforts. "As states across t...
Sep 3, 2021 The National Guard / CC
Biden to visit Louisiana to see Hurricane Ida damage, New Jersey death toll rises
WASHINGTON/NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden travels to Louisiana on Friday to get a first-hand look at the destruction wrought by Hurricane Ida, the monster storm that devastated the so...
Sep 3, 2021 A stop sign lies damaged at a street corner in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in Grand Isle, Louisiana, U.S., September 2, 2021. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
