Category Archives: Local News
High court rejects GOP bid to halt Biden's Pennsylvania win
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has rejected Republicans' last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania's certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the electoral battleground. The court with...
Dec 08, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Local COVID roundup 12/8: Four area deaths
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department Tuesday reported four new deaths due to COVID-19 in the tri-county area. Two of the deaths occurred in Peoria County. One was a female in her 9...
Dec 08, 2020 Midwest Communications
"12 Days of Carry-out" promotes local businesses and the arts
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Area Convention and Visitors Bureau is teaming up with ArtsPartners of Central Illinois for a new campaign called "The 12 Days of Carry-out". The project is designed to prom...
Dec 08, 2020 (Peoria Area Convention and Visitors Bureau)
State COVID roundup 12/8: More than 800,000 cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- After 7,910 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases were announced by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Tuesday, there have now been more than 800,000 cases in Ill...
Dec 08, 2020 Midwest Communications
US regulators post positive review of Pfizer vaccine data
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. health regulators posted a positive review of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine as they near a decision on whether to allow use of the shot. The review posted online Tuesday by the Food...
Dec 08, 2020 A nurse administers the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy's Hospital in London, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. U.K. health authorities rolled out the first doses of a widely tested and independently reviewed COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, starting a global immunization program that is expected to gain momentum as more serums win approval. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool)
Pritzker: Next month is crucial in COVID fight
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- With Hanukah, Christmas and New Year's coming up, it's vital that everyone continue to wear a mask and not get together in large groups of people, according to Illinois Gov. J-B P...
Dec 08, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Health chief: Virus vaccine plan 'constantly in progress'
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois' public health director says the state's COVID-19 vaccination plan prioritizing counties by death rates will change as the plan progresses, and hospital staff are eli...
Dec 08, 2020 Midwest Communications
Feds passed up chance to lock in more Pfizer vaccine doses
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump aims to take credit for the speedy development of forthcoming coronavirus vaccines, even as his administration is coming under scrutiny for failing to lock in ...
Dec 08, 2020 President Donald Trump speaks after awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, to Olympic gold medalist and former University of Iowa wrestling coach Dan Gable in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Chuck Yeager, 1st to break sound barrier, dies at 97
(AP) -- World War II flying ace Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier, has died at 97. His wife, Victoria Yeager, said on his Twitter account that Yeager died Monday. NASA Administr...
Dec 08, 2020 FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, file photo, retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles Yeager talks to members of the media following a re-enactment flight commemorating his breaking of the sound barrier 65 years earlier, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier, died Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, at age 97. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)
Update: Victim identified, charges reduced in fatal shooting
UPDATE: Peoria Police confirm a man was shot at the Hollow Creek Apartments in the 4200 block of W. Hollow Creek just before 10 p.m. Saturday. Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said a black SUV wa...
Dec 07, 2020 Midwest Communications
