Category Archives: Local News
Local COVID roundup 10/9: area hits 100
PEORIA, Ill. -- Six area people between Thursday and Friday passed away from issues related to coronavirus, which means Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties have reached 100 COVID deaths. The two P...
Oct 09, 2020 Midwest Communications
Juvenile Peoria murder suspect taken into custody
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have released info regarding a third suspect in connection with a Sept. 5 murder. A 17-year-old male was arrested Friday by U.S. Marshals in Atlanta, Georgia, making him t...
Oct 09, 2020 Midwest Communications
Bradley announces later semester start, no spring break for 2021
PEORIA, Ill. -- In light of COVID-19 prevention measures, Bradley University has announced changes to its spring 2021 semester. Provost Walter Zakahi said in a letter sent Friday afternoon to parents ...
Oct 09, 2020
Trump credits antibody drug for quick recovery
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says doctors have told him that he could've become very ill with COVID-19 and credits an experimental antibody drug for helping him recover. Trump told Rush Limbaug...
Oct 09, 2020 AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
Tri-county area adds two COVID testing sites this month
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Tri-county area is gaining two new community testing sites for COVID-19 in October. Peoria City/County Health Department Administrator Monica Hendrickson urges residents to get tes...
Oct 09, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Woman wounded in shooting overnight in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- A woman was shot in Peoria Thursday night in the 2200 block of N. Idaho Street. Peoria Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said police responded to the call at approximately 10:20 p....
Oct 09, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Trump says he's ready for rallies
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that he is ready to resume campaign rallies and feels "perfect" one week after his diagnosis with the coronavirus that has killed more than 2...
Oct 09, 2020 FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 5, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump removes his mask as he stands on the Blue Room Balcony upon returning to the White House in Washington, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md. Trump announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 2. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Tazewell County man hospitalized with West Nile virus
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. -- A man in his 50s, that resides in Tazewell County, is hospitalized with West Nile virus, according to the Tazewell County Health Department (TCHD). West Nile virus is transmit...
Oct 08, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
What is the Graduated Income Tax Amendment? Proponents and opponents sound off
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Graduated Income Tax will be on ballots in Illinois in November, which would change the way residents' income is taxed in the state. The graduated tax would amend the Illino...
Oct 08, 2020 Midwest Communications
In 25th Amendment bid, Pelosi mulls Trump's fitness to serve
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is questioning President Donald Trump's fitness to serve, announcing legislation Thursday that would create a commission to allow Congress to intervene und...
Oct 08, 2020 AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
