Category Archives: Local News
Victim of Peoria crash identified
PEORIA, Ill. -- The victim of a two-vehicle crash Friday morning has been identified as 34-year-old Aries Terrell of Peoria. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said Terrell was pronounced dead at 11:...
Nov 23, 2020 Midwest Communications
US tells GM to recall nearly 6M trucks with Takata inflators
DETROIT (AP) - The U.S. is making General Motors recall and repair nearly 6 million big pickup trucks and SUVs equipped with potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators. The move announced Monday b...
Nov 23, 2020 FILE - This Friday, May 16, 2014, file photo, shows the General Motors logo at the company's world headquarters in Detroit. The U.S. is making General Motors recall and repair nearly 6 million big pickup trucks and SUVs equipped with potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators. The move announced Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will cost the automaker an estimated $1.2 billion. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Trump appeals rejection of effort to block Pennsylvania vote
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - President Donald Trump is appealing a federal judge's dismissal of his campaign's effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania. The president and other plaintiffs ...
Nov 23, 2020 FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 20, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump listens during an event in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. A federal judge in Pennsylvania says he won’t stop officials from certifying election results that show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes. U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020 turned down the request by President Donald Trump’s campaign as it sought the state’s 20 electoral votes. Those votes still would not have been enough on their own to hand Trump a second term. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
AstraZeneca: COVID-19 vaccine 'highly effective' prevention
LONDON (AP) - AstraZeneca says late stage trials of its COVID-19 vaccine developed with Oxford University were "highly effective'' in preventing disease. The results are based on interim analysis of t...
Nov 23, 2020 FILE - In this Saturday, July 18, 2020 file photo a general view of AstraZeneca offices and the corporate logo in Cambridge, England. AstraZeneca says late-stage trials of its COVID-19 vaccine were "highly effective'' in preventing disease. A vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford prevented 70% of people from developing the coronavirus in late-stage trials, the team reported Monday Nov. 23, 2020.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
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
