Category Archives: Local News
State COVID roundup 11/22: over 10,000 new cases statewide
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Public Health reported an additional 10,012 new and probable cases of COVID-19, including 76 additional deaths on Sunday. As of Saturday night, 6,072 peo...
Nov 23, 2020 Midwest Communications
Biden expected to nominate Blinken as secretary of state
WASHINGTON (AP) - A longtime national security aide to President-elect Joe Biden is expected to become Biden's nominee for secretary of state. Multiple people familiar with the Biden team's planning t...
Nov 23, 2020 FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, file photo, Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria. Blinken is the leading contender to become President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of state, according to multiple people familiar with the Biden team's planning. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
COVID-19 vaccine could arrive by end of year
WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the U.S. effort to produce a coronavirus vaccine says the first immunizations could happen on Dec. 12. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee is set to meet De...
Nov 22, 2020 Midwest Communications
EP Festival of Lights gets underway
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- East Peoria's annual Festival of Lights kicked off on Saturday night with the annual Parade of Lights. 30 floats drove by a substantial crowd of onlookers, brightening the streets...
Nov 22, 2020 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
State COVID roundup 11/21: 120k tested
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Department of Public Health reported 11,891 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, including 127 more deaths, in the 24-hour reporting period between Friday and Sa...
Nov 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
Biden to work to end executions as government sets 3 more
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Joe Biden is against the death penalty and will work to end its use, his spokesman said Saturday, as the Justice Department scheduled three more federal executions be...
Nov 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
Morton District 709 weekly COVID-19 update
MORTON, Ill. -- COVID-19 numbers went down from the week of Nov. 13 to the week of Nov. 20 at Morton School District 709. This decrease continued the trend the district has seen the entire month of No...
Nov 21, 2020
Friday East Bluff gunfire sends woman to hospital
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were continuing an investigation Saturday morning into a late Friday night shooting in the East Bluff. Police were called around 10:40 to the 900 block of E. Republic fol...
Nov 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
City Treasurer Patrick Nichting will not seek re-election
PEORIA, Ill. -- City of Peoria City Treasurer Patrick Nichting announced Friday that he will not seek another term as Treasurer. Nichting has served in the position since 2009. Prior to his position a...
Nov 20, 2020
Eight injured in Wisconsin mall shooting; police still looking for suspect
WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) - Eight people were injured in a shooting Friday at a suburban Milwaukee mall and police said they were still seeking the suspect. Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber gave no motiv...
Nov 20, 2020 AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh
