Category Archives: Local News
Gov. Pritzker lobbying for federal support for small businesses
PEORIA, Ill. -- Small businesses across the country have been impacted heavily due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In Illinois, the state has been dispersing Business Interruption Grants (BIG) to he...
Oct 26, 2020 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
State COVID roundup 10/26: positivity rate over 6%
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- 4,729 people throughout Illinois between Sunday and Monday found out they have COVID-19. Illinois Department of Public Health also reported 17 additional deaths related to the vir...
Oct 26, 2020 Midwest Communications
Murray Baker on track for Saturday
PEORIA, Ill. -- Drivers through the Peoria Metro area are in for a welcomed Halloween treat. The Murray Baker Bridge will officially reopen on Oct. 31 after being closed since March 29. Gov. J.B. Prit...
Oct 26, 2020 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Trump plans battleground blitz despite growing virus worries
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump plans to intensify an already breakneck travel schedule in the final full week of the presidential campaign despite growing concerns about the coronavirus nati...
Oct 26, 2020 President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, in Londonderry, N.H. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Tailgate N' Tallboys returning to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- A popular Country music festival is making its way back to Peoria in 2021. According to a press release on Sunday, Tailgate N' Tallboys organizers said the festival will be adding an a...
Oct 26, 2020
Senate to confirm Barrett for court in partisan vote
WASHINGTON (AP) - A deeply divided Senate is set to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Republicans are powering through a vote Monday on President Donald Trump's nominee a week before Ele...
Oct 26, 2020 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives as Republicans work during a rare weekend session to advance the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, at the Capitol in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Morton School District announces multiple COVID-related quarantines
MORTON, Ill. - Morton School District 709 announced on Sunday coronavirus has affected multiple grades within multiple schools within the district. All fifth and sixth grade students of Lettie Brown E...
Oct 25, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria schools superintendent lays out COVID testing details
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Public School District 150 Board of Education is scheduled to vote Monday night on two agenda items that, upon passage, will allow for COVID-19 testing inside district schoo...
Oct 25, 2020 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
Pence to keep up travel despite contact with infected aides
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence plans to maintain an aggressive campaign schedule this week despite an apparent outbreak of the coronavirus among his senior aides, the White House said Sat...
Oct 25, 2020 AP Photo/Steve Cannon
New US virus cases top 83,700 for 2nd day in row
BALTIMORE - A day after the U.S. set a daily record for new confirmed coronavirus infections, it came very close to doing it again. Data published by Johns Hopkins University shows that 83,718 new cas...
Oct 25, 2020 Lino Mirgeler/dpa via AP
