Category Archives: Local News
State COVID roundup 10/30: testing pushes 100k
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinoisans are being tested for COVID-19 at record numbers, as evidenced by the 95,111 tests administered between Thursday and Friday. The Illinois Department of Public Health sa...
Oct 30, 2020 Midwest Communications
PIA hosts smaller disaster drill due to COVID-19
PEORIA, Ill. -- A small-scale disaster exercise was held at the Gen. Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport on Friday. Director of Airports, Gene Olson, said the exercise is normally done in Ap...
Oct 30, 2020 (flypia.com)
'Tireless Project' hosts final collection of 2020
PEORIA, Ill. -- Give us your old, unwanted tires. Peoria's Tireless Project will hold its final collection of the year this Saturday, October 31. Tires can be dropped off at JIMAX, located at 2000 W. ...
Oct 30, 2020
Biden returns to Iowa; Trump plays defense in Mich., Wis.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - When Joe Biden was last in Iowa, his presidential campaign was on the verge of collapse and he was soundly trounced in the caucuses. Biden returns Friday as the Democratic nomi...
Oct 30, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by his granddaughter Natalie Biden, speaks to people outside a campaign victory center, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Civics 101: State Representative
The seat is up for grabs this year. But, what does the job entail? With Election Day quickly approaching, WMBD News is getting a series of civics lessons from Dr. Megan Remmel, Political Science Profe...
Oct 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
Guns stolen in Creve Coeur Thursday morning
CREVE COEUR, Ill. -- One arrest has been made in a burglary that occurred around 2:00 a.m. Thursday morning which led to a total of nine firearms being stolen from Thompson's Trading Post in Creve Coe...
Oct 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
Pritzker sounds off on IHSA
CHICAGO -- After a tense Wednesday during which the Illinois High School Association announced it would defy orders from the Illinois Department of Public Health and Gov. J.B. Pritzker by going forwar...
Oct 29, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Local COVID roundup 10/29: teetering on mitigation levels
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties belong to Region Two of Illinois, which was one of just two of the state's 11 regions as of Thursday afternoon not under mitigation restrictions...
Oct 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
White Sox reunite with La Russa, hire Hall of Fame manager
CHICAGO (AP) - Tony La Russa, the Hall of Famer who won a World Series with the Oakland Athletics and two more with the St. Louis Cardinals, is returning to manage the Chicago White Sox 34 years after...
Oct 29, 2020 AP Photo/Matt York, File
State COVID roundup 10/29: over 3,000 hospitalized
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- One day after Illinois set a new 24-hour high for COVID-19 cases, it repeated that action. Illinois Department of Public Health reported 6,363 people between Wednesday and Thursda...
Oct 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
