Category Archives: Local News
Trump tells Fla. supporters he feels 'powerful'
WASHINGTON (AP) -President Donald Trump has returned to the campaign trail, holding his first rally since he contracted the coronavirus. Trump took the stage Monday in Sanford, Florida, and declared h...
Oct 13, 2020 Supporters cheer as President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at the Orlando Sanford International Airport Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, in Sanford, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
PPS superintendent presents updated back-to-school plan
PEORIA, Ill. -- Another group of Peoria Public Schools students will return to the classroom on October 26. Kindergarten and 1st graders were back in schools October 5. Special Education students retu...
Oct 13, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 10/12: 6,600 since start of pandemic
PEORIA, Ill. -- Three COVID deaths over the weekend throughout Peoria and Tazewell Counties have increased the tri-county total -- which includes Woodford -- to 103. The Tazewell deaths were to female...
Oct 12, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 10/12: state nears 9,000 deaths
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The statewide seven-day positivity rate for COVID-19 has risen to 4.3%. Illinois Department of Public Health reported Monday 2,742 people since Sunday throughout Illinois tested p...
Oct 12, 2020 Midwest Communications
Health care is focus as Barrett Supreme Court hearing opens
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats branded Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett a threat to Americans' health care during the coronavirus pandemic Monday at the start of a fast-tracked hearing that...
Oct 12, 2020 Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett arrives for her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP)
Gilmore Foundation/Reditus Labs providing rapid COVID tests to PPS
PEORIA, Ill. -- A donation to Peoria Public Schools will help middle and high school students return to the classroom sooner than expected. The Gilmore Foundation, founded by former Caterpillar Presid...
Oct 12, 2020 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
State COVID roundup 10/11: 9 deaths reported
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health on Sunday reported 2,727 new cases of COVID-19, including nine additional deaths statewide. The state's preliminary seven-day positivity r...
Oct 12, 2020 Midwest Communications
Teen arrested for September homicide in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police have made an arrest in the September shooting death of 28-year-old Donald Allen. Allen died of a single gunshot wound to the head, near the 1500 block of Faraday on Septe...
Oct 12, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Sheriff's office preps for Election Day issues
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria County Sheriff's Office will be ready at a moment's notice to respond to any voter intimidation at the polls. Sheriff Brian Asbell laid out the plans to WMBD News. "We are g...
Oct 11, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 10/10: statewide positivity rate creeps upwards
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- 2,905 people between Friday and Saturday tested positive for coronavirus throughout the state of Illinois. Illinois Department of Public Health reported 31 deaths in that time. 66...
Oct 10, 2020 Midwest Communications
