Category Archives: Local News
CDC changes course, says to get tested if previously in contact with infected person
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. health officials on Friday dropped a controversial piece of coronavirus guidance and said anyone who has been in close contact with an infected person should get tested. The Cente...
Sep 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 9/18: elderly woman dies
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Tazewell County woman in her 80s has succumbed to COVID-19. The Peoria City/County Health Department reported Friday she lived at Villas at Hollybrook in Pekin. The department did no...
Sep 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 9/18: testing hits 60k
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- After two straight days of over 50,000 tests performed throughout the state, the Illinois Department of Public Health said Friday there had been over 60,000 specimens taken by lab...
Sep 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
War hero to kick off Vietnam Wall ceremony
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Not only will the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall be on display next week in the Levee District of East Peoria, but the opening ceremony will feature a decorated guest. Lt. Col. H...
Sep 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
US bans WeChat, TikTok citing national security
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. will ban the use of WeChat Sunday to "safeguard the national security of the United States." The Chinese app TikTok will also be banned by Nov. 12, but Commerce Secretary Wi...
Sep 18, 2020 AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein
Rescuers reach people cut off by Gulf Coast hurricane
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Rescuers on the Gulf Coast used boats and high-water vehicles Thursday to reach people cut off by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally, even as a second round of floo...
Sep 18, 2020 AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
PHS Football Coach speaks on #LetUsPlay
PEORIA, Ill. -- Many Illinois families have been asking for high school sports to be played this fall, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker doesn't have any plans to allow that to happen. "I'm not willing to sacrif...
Sep 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
US judge blocks Postal Service changes that slowed mail
SEATTLE (AP) - A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked controversial Postal Service changes that have slowed mail nationwide, calling them "a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Serv...
Sep 17, 2020 AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Peoria elections board responds to Sec'y of State letter
PEORIA, Ill. -- If you received a letter from the Illinois Secretary of State's Office saying you have yet to file for a vote-by-mail application, you may be able to disregard it. Many local residents...
Sep 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 9/17: tragic streak ends
PEORIA, Ill. -- For the first time in over a week, the Peoria City/County Health Department has reported no new COVID-19-related deaths. The department Thursday said 61 residents of Peoria, Woodford, ...
Sep 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
