Category Archives: Local News
East Peoria Council nears green light for another marijuana store
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- East Peoria got one step closer Tuesday night to getting its second adult-use cannabis dispensary. City council voted 4-1 to approve a first reading ordinance that would allow Sor...
Oct 06, 2020 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
Gov. Pritzker proposes principles for "more equitable criminal justice system"
CHICAGO -- Criminal justice reform has been a hot topic across the country in recent months, and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker Tuesday proposed seven guiding principles to reform and modernize the state's...
Oct 06, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD
Guitar rock god Eddie Van Halen dies of cancer at 65
NEW YORK (AP) - Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock's biggest groups, fueled the unmistakable fiery sol...
Oct 06, 2020
Peoria Rivermen, along with four other teams, opt out of SPHL season
HUNTERSVILLE, NC - When the Souther Professional Hockey League (SPHL) season begins in December, the Peoria Rivermen will not be playing. The Rivermen, along with four other SPHL teams, will instead p...
Oct 06, 2020 Photo Credit: Peoria Rivermen
Trump halts COVID-19 relief talks until after election
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has instructed aides to stop negotiating on another round of COVID-19 relief until after the election. Trump tweeted that House Speaker Na...
Oct 06, 2020 AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Local COVID roundup 10/6: daily count well below recent average
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department reported 45 area residents between Monday and Tuesday received positive COVID-19 test results. That number was a significant departure from las...
Oct 06, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria's Santa Claus Parade will go on
PEORIA, Ill. -- Many area events have been canceled this year due to COVID-19, but Peoria's 133rd Santa Clause Parade won't be one of them. Peoria Area Community Events, the parade's organizer, said i...
Oct 06, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
State COVID roundup 10/6: high testing numbers continue
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Close to 50,000 people throughout Illinois between Monday and Tuesday were tested for coronavirus. Illinois Department of Public Health said 49,513 specimens were collected as 1,6...
Oct 06, 2020 Midwest Communications
Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Barrett set to begin Oct. 12
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination, starting Monday, October 12th at 8am Central Time. The hearing is expected to l...
Oct 06, 2020 FILE - Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trumps nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, meets with Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. Barrett graduated with honors in 1994 from a small liberal arts school, Rhodes College in Memphis. Many alumni have posted a letter on social media expressing their opposition to Barrett's nomination to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court after Ginsburg's death last month.(Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)
Trump, still infectious, back at White House — without mask
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House after leaving the military hospital where he was receiving an unprecedented level of care for COVID-19. He immediat...
Oct 06, 2020 President Donald Trump stands on the balcony outside of the Blue Room as returns to the White House Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, 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)
