Category Archives: Local News
UnityPoint Health opens region's first hospital-based dialysis center
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Central Illinois region's first hospital-based dialysis center is now open in Peoria. UnityPoint Health opened the center Thursday, Sept. 10, and the hospital can serve 14 patients...
Sep 10, 2020 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
In a year of social distancing, virus alters Sept. 11, too
NEW YORK (AP) - The coronavirus pandemic has reshaped how the U.S. is observing the anniversary of 9/11. The terror attacks' 19th anniversary will be marked Friday by dueling ceremonies at the Sept. 1...
Sep 10, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2017, file photo, the Tribute in Light illuminates in the sky above the Lower Manhattan area of New York, as seen from across the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J. The coronavirus pandemic has reshaped how the U.S. is observing the anniversary of 9/11. The terror attacks' 19th anniversary will be marked Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, by dueling ceremonies at the Sept. 11 memorial plaza and a corner nearby in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)
James Bond, 'Avengers' star Diana Rigg dies at 82
LONDON (AP) - British actress Diana Rigg, who became a 1960s style icon as secret agent Emma Peel in TV series "The Avengers," has died. She was 82. Rigg's agent Simon Beresford said she died Thursday...
Sep 10, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 20, 1972 file photo, British actress Diana Rigg and actor Anthony Hopkins attend the opening night of Macbeth at the National Theatre, London. Rigg plays Lady Macbeth opposite Hopkins' Macbeth in the Shakespearean tragedy. Actress Diana Rigg, who became a 1960s style icon as secret agent Emma Peel in TV series “The Avengers,” has died at age 82. Rigg’s agent Simon Beresford says she died Thursday Sept. 10, 2020 at home with her family. (AP Photo/Bob Dear, File)
Marigold Festival adapts to keep volunteers and patrons safe
PEKIN, Ill. -- Although it will look a little different this year, Pekin's annual Marigold Festival will go on this weekend. Pekin Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Amy McCoy told WMBD's Greg and...
Sep 10, 2020 (Pekin Marigold Festival Facebook)
US layoffs remain elevated as 884K seek jobless aid
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans applying for jobless aid was unchanged last week at 884,000, a sign that layoffs are stuck at a historically high level six months after the viral pandemic fl...
Sep 10, 2020 Midwest Communications
California fire that killed 3 threatens thousands of homes
OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) - A Northern California wildfire is threatening thousands of homes after winds whipped it into a monster that incinerated houses in a small mountain community and killed at least...
Sep 10, 2020 Flames lick above vehicles on Highway 162 as the Bear Fire burns in Oroville, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. The blaze, part of the lightning-sparked North Complex, expanded at a critical rate of spread as winds buffeted the region. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Arrest made in eighth homicide of the year
PEORIA, Ill. -- A suspect in the Saturday evening shooting of 21-year-old Terrence Dunigan has been arrested. 19-year-old Talya T. Zolicoffer, Jr. was identified as a suspect by detectives assigned to...
Sep 09, 2020 Midwest Communications
Book: Trump said of virus, 'I wanted to always play it down'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump talked privately about the severity of the coronavirus threat even as he was telling the nation the virus was no worse than the seasonal flu and insisting the ...
Sep 09, 2020 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Local COVID roundup 9/9: nursing home resident dies
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Woodford County man in his 80s was reported Wednesday as the most recent area resident to die while sick with COVID-19. The man, according to Peoria City/County Health Department, li...
Sep 09, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria to receive more than $800,000 in COVID relief funds
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More than $1 million will be coming to Peoria and Pekin in federal COVID relief funds. Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (IL-17) announced Wednesday that Peoria will be receiving $808,791...
Sep 09, 2020 MWC-Bustos
