Category Archives: Local News
VIDEO: nurses cheer on 102-year-old East Peoria COVID patient released from hospital
PEORIA, Ill. -- A 102-year-old East Peoria woman is back at home after being discharged Thursday night from OSF HealthCare, where she was being treated for COVID-19. The woman, who lives in her own ho...
Dec 11, 2020 Amy Paul/OSF HealthCare
Local COVID roundup 12/11: region ICU bed capacity continues decline
PEORIA, Ill. -- A combined five residents of Woodford and Tazewell Counties died between Thursday and Friday from coronavirus complications. In Woodford, a female and male who were both in their 70s d...
Dec 11, 2020 Midwest Communications
Congress passes 1-week funding bill to avert gov't shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress shipped a temporary government-wide funding bill to President Donald Trump on Friday, averting a government shutdown at midnight and buying time for on-again, off-again talk...
Dec 11, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 12/11: almost 200 deaths again
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Nearly 200 Illinoisans for a second consecutive 24-hour reporting period passed away from COVID-19 complications. The Illinois Department of Public Health said 190 deaths between ...
Dec 11, 2020 Midwest Communications
Drive For Miracles goes on despite COVID changes
PEORIA,Ill. -- For 20 years, 93.3 The Drive, has been championing OSF Healthcare Children's Hospital of Illinois in Peoria. Drive morning hosts John Riley and Nancy Flagg would typically be broadcasti...
Dec 11, 2020
FDA head expects vaccine emergency use soon
WASHINGTON - The head of the Food and Drug Administration says his agency has told Pfizer that it "will rapidly work" to grant emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine following a positive recommendation...
Dec 11, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2020 file photo, Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, testifies during a Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing on the federal government response to COVID-19 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hahn said Thursday’s meeting on Dec. 10 of the vaccine advisory panel is “an important day for all of America." He hopes it will lead to the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP, File)
Congress stuck, McConnell resists state aid in COVID-19 deal
WASHINGTON (AP) - An emerging $900 billion COVID-19 aid package from a bipartisan group of lawmakers all but collapsed Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republican senators won't s...
Dec 11, 2020 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, speaks during a news conference following a weekly meeting with the Senate Republican caucus, Tuesday, Dec. 8. 2020 at the Capitol in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP)
Man arrested for second armed robbery this week
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called to the Circle K gas station in the 4200 block of N. Knoxville Tuesday night on reports of an armed robbery. Officers were told the suspect entered the busines...
Dec 11, 2020 (Peoria Police Department)
Peoria launching project to comply with EPA
PEORIA, Ill. -- The City of Peoria on Thursday released a long-range plan that aims gradually to eliminate its use of combined sewer overflow. The $109 million plan aims to fully reduce CSO by Dec. 31...
Dec 10, 2020 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Health Department unsure of vaccination distribution timetable
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department announced Thursday there is no timetable for distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine for the Tri-County area if it is approved by the FDA. Peoria ...
Dec 10, 2020 Ben Pollard/1470-100.3 WMBD
