Category Archives: Local News
Protesters speak out against COVID-19 mandates
PEORIA, Ill. - (25 News) - The issue of COVID-19 related mandates continues to be hot button issue nationally and locally. A group of protesters gathered outside OSF HealthCare Saturday to speak out a...
Aug 29, 2021 25 News
Bears win preseason finale
NASHVILLE, TN - (Reuters) - Jesper Horsted caught three touchdown passes and Nick Foles threw for 142 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Chicago Bears past host Tennessee in Nashville. Foles connect...
Aug 29, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. troops have begun leaving Kabul airport, Pentagon says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. troops have begun their withdrawal from Kabul airport, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Saturday. At the briefing, U.S. Army Major General William Taylor ...
Aug 28, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. service members assist with security at an Evacuation Control Check Point (ECC) during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 26, 2021. U.S. Marine Corps/Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/Handout via REUTERS.
U.S. Gulf Coast braces for Hurricane Ida after Cuba takes hit
(Reuters) - Hurricane Ida churned toward the U.S. Gulf coast on Saturday, forecast to gather strength in coming hours and prompting evacuations of flood-prone New Orleans neighborhoods and oil rigs in...
Aug 28, 2021 A satellite image shows Tropical Storm Ida after forming in the Caribbean, about 75 miles (125 kilometers) north-northwest of Grand Cayman, August 27, 2021. NOAA/via REUTERS
U.S. attacks Islamic State after Afghan airport blast
(Reuters) -The United States attacked an Islamic State "planner" in Afghanistan in retaliation for a deadly bombing outside Kabul airport and said there was a high risk of further blasts as it nears t...
Aug 28, 2021 A U.S. Marine assists at an Evacuation Control Check Point (ECC) during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 26, 2021. Picture taken August 26, 2021. U.S. Marine Corps/Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/Handout via REUTERS
Steiner: 'I was just a kid from New York hoping to become a broadcaster'
PEORIA, Ill. -- At the young age of five years old, he announced Brooklyn Dodger games. It may have been from the basement of his home on Long Island, but that laid the foundation for Charley Steiner'...
Aug 27, 2021 1470-100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
ROE Head: Issues with mandatory COVID vaccines and testing for teachers
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Regional Superintendent of Schools says Governor JB Pritzker's new mandate requiring all teachers to get tested or fully vaccinated against COVID-19 might be a bit pro...
Aug 27, 2021 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Former Ambassador: Afghanistan situation a "disaster" for U.S.
PEORIA, Ill. - A former Ambassador to Afghanistan who will be speaking again in Peoria in a few weeks says the U.S. withdrawal from that country has been "terrible," and the country has a "disaster" o...
Aug 27, 2021 Courtesy: American Academy of Diplomacy
LaHood: Biden's handling of the situation in Kabul shows weakness
PEORIA, Ill. -- A pair of explosions outside the Kabul Airport on Thursday took the lives of 13 U.S. troops and left over a dozen others injured. 18th District Congressman Darin LaHood (IL-R), of Peor...
Aug 27, 2021 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
U.S. Supreme Court ends CDC's pandemic residential eviction moratorium
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ended the pandemic-related federal moratorium on residential evictions imposed by President Joe Biden's administration in a challenge to the po...
Aug 27, 2021 FILE PHOTO: The sun rises behind the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2021. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo/File Photo
