Category Archives: Local News
State COVID roundup 9/17: another day over 50k
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- For the second day in a row, over 50,000 Illinoisans got tested for COVID-19. Labs statewide reported 57,800 specimens were taken between Wednesday and Thursday. 2,056 tests came ...
Sep 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
Second stimulus could come by November, cost is the issue
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Will we see another relief package ahead of the November election? Illinois' 18th District Rep. Darin LaHood told WMBD's Greg and Dan Show, Congress is working on another stimulus,...
Sep 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
COVID-19 danger continues to drive joblessness in US
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to 860,000, a historically high figure that reflects economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak. Before t...
Sep 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump disputes health officials, sees mass vaccinations soon
WASHINGTON (AP) - Openly contradicting the government's top health experts, President Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that a safe and effective vaccine against the coronavirus could be ready as early...
Sep 17, 2020 President Donald Trump gestures while speaking during a news conference at the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
After Sally: Rescue, recovery and a wary eye on rivers
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Rivers swollen by Hurricane Sally's rains threatened more misery for parts of the Florida Panhandle and south Alabama on Thursday, even as the storm's remnants were forecast to ...
Sep 17, 2020 Cars and a motorcycle are underwater as water floods a street, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Pensacola, Fla. Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecasters said would cause dangerous flooding from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi and well inland in the days ahead.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Bradley President provides enforcement update one week into campus-wide quarantine
PEORIA, Ill. -- Bradley University President Stephen Standifird Wednesday evening provided an update on the campus quarantine. Standifird highlighted the enforcement efforts of the university, saying ...
Sep 16, 2020
Peoria Police ask for help identifying people involved in business burglaries
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Police Department is asking for the public's help identifying people in connection to business burglaries. The burglaries took place May 31 through June 3, when protests and...
Sep 16, 2020 Midwest Communications
WIU shooting suspect taken into custody
MACOMB, Ill. -- A freshman at Western Illinois University has been arrested after a Tuesday night shooting on the Macomb campus. Kavion Poplous, 18, turned himself in at a Chicago Police Department We...
Sep 16, 2020 (Western Illinois University Police)
Peoria Firefighters evacuate several homes Wednesday afternoon due to risk of explosion
PEORIA, Ill. -- Several homes had to be evacuated by Peoria Firefighters Wednesday afternoon due to risk of explosion. Fire crews were called at approximately 3:25 p.m. to the 1100 block of N. Univers...
Sep 16, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
PPS announces students K-1 may resume in-person instruction
PEORIA, Ill. -- Following a Tuesday work session that lasted "all day," as Dr. Sharon Desmoulin-Kherat said, Peoria Public School District 150 announced Wednesday a plan to allow kindergarteners and f...
Sep 16, 2020 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
