Category Archives: Local News
Local COVID roundup 1/28: Area hospitalizations down double digits
PEORIA, Ill. -- Patients in area hospitals took a dive in the right direction Thursday, as 11 fewer people with COVID-19 are occupying hospital beds compared to Wednesday. Ten fewer people occupied no...
Jan 28, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 1/28: over 100k tested
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- 103 people died from COVID-19 and 4,191 tests between Wednesday and Thursday came back positive, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Labs throughout the state c...
Jan 28, 2021 Midwest Communications
GM aims to end sale of gasoline, diesel-powered cars, SUVs, light trucks by 2035
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors Co. said Thursday it was setting a goal to sell all its new cars, SUVs and light pickup trucks with zero tailpipe emissions by 2035, a dramatic shift by the large...
Jan 28, 2021 REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
U.S. economy contracts in 2020; worst performance since 1946
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy contracted at its sharpest pace since World War Two in 2020 as COVID-19 ravaged services businesses like restaurants and airlines, throwing millions of American...
Jan 28, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A John Deere tractor, a combine, and other heavy machinery sit inside a barn on a corn and soybean farm in Woodburn, Indiana, U.S., October 16, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan
Biden to reopen online health insurance marketplaces
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will reopen the nation's online health insurance marketplace for people who cannot obtain coverage through their employers, the White House said on Thur...
Jan 28, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about administration plans to strengthen American manufacturing during a brief appearance in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 25, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
High school sports are back: Local AD, coach and player ecstatic
PEORIA, Ill. -- It's been nearly 11 months since high school basketball games have taken place in the state of Illinois. As early as two weeks ago, there was even doubt to whether or not there would b...
Jan 27, 2021 Midwest Communications
Peoria Firefighters battle electrical blaze at Landmark Apartments
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Firefighters were called to Landmark Apartments Wednesday just before 2:00 p.m. on reports of smoke inside the building. Upon arrival, nothing was showing on the outside of the ...
Jan 27, 2021 1470&100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
May 2020 shooting suspect nabbed
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man wanted in a May 2020 South Peoria shooting has been taken into Peoria Police custody. The incident occurred May 30 in the 2400 block of W. Starr St., near South Metro Market. A m...
Jan 27, 2021 Peoria Police Department
PCSO find missing man dead on Chillicothe property
***UPDATE*** 1/28 4:19 P.M. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has announced Hamm died of exposure to the cold. He said Hamm appeared to have fallen while outside and, for reasons not yet clear, was ...
Jan 27, 2021 Peoria County Sheriff's Office
Back to school, back to sports: IHSA outlines basketball, football season guidelines
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- With most of Illinois back at Phase Four of Restore Illinois, the Illinois High School Association was given the green light by the Illinois Department of Public Health to start hol...
Jan 27, 2021 Photo Courtesy -- IHSA.org
