Category Archives: Local News
Local COVID roundup 11/12: area reaches 14 days
PEORIA, Ill. -- After being placed last Wednesday into tier one COVID-19 mitigation protocols, Region Two's numbers have kept rising. On Thursday, the region reached 14 consecutive days of a rolling s...
Nov 12, 2020 Midwest Communications
The Weeknd to perform at Super Bowl halftime show
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Weeknd will bring his popular falsetto vocals to the 2021 Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show. NFL, Pepsi and Roc Nation announced Thursday that the three-time Grammy Award winner wi...
Nov 12, 2020 Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, File
State COVID roundup 11/12: over 5.2k in hospitals
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- COVID-19 hospitalizations statewide grew from Wednesday to Thursday by a couple hundred. Illinois Department of Public Health said 5,258 people as of Wednesday night were in hospi...
Nov 12, 2020 Midwest Communications
Cut it out: BU to offer cardboard stand-ins for basketball
PEORIA, Ill. -- Living, breathing fans won't be allowed into Carver Arena and Renaissance Coliseum to start the 2020-2021 Bradley men's and women's basketball seasons because of COVID-19 restrictions....
Nov 12, 2020 Dalton Kemper/1470WMBD
709,000 seek US jobless aid as pandemic escalates
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 709,000, the fourth straight drop and a sign that the job market is slowly healing. The figures coincide with a s...
Nov 12, 2020 Midwest Communications
Virus surge engulfs US with millions of new cases
(AP) -- Texas has become the first state with more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases. And California is nearing that mark as a surge of infections engulfs the country. Across the U.S., over 10.3...
Nov 12, 2020 FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2020, file photo, Rachel Arden instructs a student on how to self-administer a rapid COVID-19 test at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. The U.S. has recorded about 10.3 million confirmed infections, with new cases soaring to all-time highs of well over 120,000 per day over the past week. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Pritzker says lack of veto session won't stop work on budget
CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker says efforts to identify cuts that can be made to Illinois' budget will continue despite the postponement of the General Assembly's veto session. Pritzker said Wednes...
Nov 12, 2020
IDPH issues new guidance for residents to stay home as much as possible
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health has issued new guidance urging residents of the state to stay home and only leave for "essential activities." The guidelines, which come j...
Nov 12, 2020 Midwest Communications
Facebook, Twitter and the fight against false information
PEORIA, Ill. -- Users on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter most likely noticed messages on posts last week during the election. On Twitter, many of President Donald Trump's tweets even c...
Nov 11, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Local COVID roundup 11/11: hospital bed capacity declines steeply
PEORIA, Ill. -- The area's hospital bed capacity decreased drastically between Tuesday and Wednesday, from 119 beds occupied by COVID-19 patients to 149. 33 of those 149 patients were in intensive car...
Nov 11, 2020 Midwest Communications
