Category Archives: Local News
Peoria offering additional business recovery grants
PEORIA, Ill. -- The City of Peoria is giving businesses a chance to recover losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Peoria applied for a grant from the State of Illinois, and received nearly $1.2 million...
Nov 16, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
Trump campaign drops key request in Pennsylvania lawsuit
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - President Donald Trump's campaign is withdrawing a central request in its lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania. Democrat Joe Biden c...
Nov 16, 2020 FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump listens during an event on Operation Warp Speed in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Ruckriegel says he'll run for Peoria mayor
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria At-Large City Council member Sid Ruckriegel announced over the weekend that he plans to run for the Mayor's Office in the spring election. Ruckriegel was elected to City Council...
Nov 16, 2020 (Photo courtesy of City of Peoria)
2nd coronavirus vaccine shows early success in U.S. tests
(AP) -- There's more promising news on the COVID-19 vaccine front as Moderna says its shot provides strong protection against the coronavirus. Monday's announcement comes a week after a competitor, Pf...
Nov 16, 2020 FILE - In this July 27, 2020, file photo, nurse Kathe Olmstead prepares a shot that is part of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., in Binghamton, N.Y. Moderna said Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, its COVID-19 shot provides strong protection against the coronavirus that's surging in the U.S. and around the world. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)
Trump tweets words 'he won'; says vote rigged, not conceding
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has tweeted the words "he won" but later made clear he hadn't changed his tune about Joe Biden getting more votes in the 2020 presidential election. Trump said...
Nov 16, 2020 President Donald Trump arrives to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
State COVID roundup 11/15: over 10,600 new cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Department of Public Health yesterday (Sunday) reported 10,631 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 statewide, including 72 additional deaths. 84,831 test...
Nov 16, 2020 Midwest Communications
Update: Peoria homicide victim identified
Update: Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the victim as 28-year-old Roosevelt Hunter III, of Peoria. "He was identified through picture by family members," Harwood said. Autopsy findi...
Nov 16, 2020 Midwest Communications
Morton District 709 seeing decreasing number of student quarantines
MORTON, Ill. -- While many students are out of the classroom in Morton schools, the numbers are lower than they were a week ago. Last week, 332 students were out of class due to mandated quarantines, ...
Nov 15, 2020
Arson fire in Peoria late Saturday night
PEORIA, Ill. -- Arson has been determined to be the cause of a late Saturday night fire that occurred just before 9:30 p.m. at 2208 W. Proctor St. When crews arrived, they found heavy flames and thick...
Nov 15, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Police investigate three car shootout in Bartonville
BARTONVILLE, Ill. -- Just after 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning a Bartonville police officer saw three cars actively shooting at each other in the 900 block of McKinley Ave. The officer followed one of the...
Nov 15, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
