Category Archives: Local News
Pritzker: Illinois is inching closer to "bridge" phase
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois may soon be able to enter the bridge phase of COVID-19 mitigations. Enough senior citizens have now been vaccinated for the state to move into the bridge phase, which inc...
May 4, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
U.S. FDA set to authorize Pfizer COVID-19 shot for ages 12-15 early next week - NYT
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is preparing to authorize Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents aged between 12 and 15 years by early next week...
May 4, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Vials of Pfizer's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine are seen at a pop-up community vaccination center at the Gateway World Christian Center in Valley Stream, New York, U.S., February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Peoria Fire crews knock down Monday afternoon house fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Firefighter/Paramedics responded Monday at 4:15 p.m. to the 1300 block of S. Greenlawn Ave. for reports of smoke in a building. A working fire was reported by firefighters upon ...
May 3, 2021 Midwest Communications
Central Illinois county clerks launch nonpartisan effort against house bill
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- If the proposed Illinois House Bill 3878 passes through the Senate, all documents filed through any recorder of deeds office would increase from $9 to $18. The money collected by ...
May 3, 2021 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
Peoria Police find dead body Sunday morning; body ID'ed
***UPDATE*** 5/3/21 4:15 P.M. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the corpse as that of 43-year-old Jason Rutherford of Peoria. A toxicology test was pending, but Harwood reiterated no ...
May 3, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
2 kids killed in Peoria wreck; names now known
***UPDATE*** 5/3/21 3:45 P.M. The names of the deceased have been identified. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said the 14-year-old's name was Bolodjawn Diego Bonkengo, and the 1-year-old's was Owe...
May 3, 2021 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Women's clinic fire caused by arson
UPDATE 4:10 P.M. -- Peoria Fire Department fire investigators have determined the fire early Monday morning at the Women's Care Clinic was arson. The fire is now estimated to have caused $250,000 in d...
May 3, 2021 (25 News)
OSF opens fourth Peoria urgent care location
PEORIA, Ill. -- OSF HealthCare held a ribbon cutting Monday to celebrate the opening of a fourth OSF OnCall Urgent Care location in Peoria. According to Vice President of On Demand Services Brandi Cla...
May 3, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 5/3: double digit death count
PEORIA, Ill. -- A total of 10 Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford County residents between Friday and Monday passed away from COVID-19. Woodford County reported two men died, one of whom was in his 40s, an...
May 3, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 5/3: RX vax data backed up
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A total of 2,049 Illinoisans between Sunday and Monday found out they have COVID-19. 28 people during that time died. A number of pharmacies during the reporting period did not re...
May 3, 2021 Midwest Communications
