Category Archives: Local News
Local COVID roundup 9/4: deaths in Peoria/Tazewell Counties
PEORIA, Ill. -- For a third day in a row, the Peoria City/County Health Department has reported deaths in the Tri-County area. A Peoria County man in his 90s, a resident of Apostolic Christian Skyline...
Sep 04, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 9/4: data backlog inflates numbers
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A backlog of test reporting caused Friday's statewide COVID-19 numbers to skew highly. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 5,368 new cases of coronavirus. Labs acros...
Sep 04, 2020 Midwest Communications
August U.S. job numbers released
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. unemployment dropped sharply in August from 10.2% to a still-high 8.4%, with about half the 22 million jobs lost to the coronavirus outbreak recovered so far, the government sai...
Sep 04, 2020 Midwest Communications
August jobs report likely to point to slight recovery
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States keeps regaining more of the jobs that vanished when the viral pandemic flattened the economy early this spring. Yet so deep were the layoffs that began in March tha...
Sep 04, 2020 AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
Labor Day: A celebration of the American workforce
PEORIA, Ill. -- Labor Day has been an official holiday in the United States since 1882, but many people may not know why there is a day in the calendar to honor laborers. According to the U.S. Departm...
Sep 03, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 9/3: over 40k tested, positive rate down
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The rolling seven-day statewide positivity rate for COVID-19 has ticked slightly downwards as the Illinois Department of Public Health reported on Thursday 1,360 new cases of the ...
Sep 03, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 9/3: Tazewell Co. sees 11th death
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Tazewell County woman in her 80s has passed away from COVID-19. The octogenarian did not reside in a long-term care facility, said the Peoria City/County Health Department. The woman...
Sep 03, 2020 Midwest Communications
CDC visits Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria-area leaders have been meeting this week with representatives of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC spent Wednesday conducting COVID-19 seminars with Peoria...
Sep 03, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
ISP steps up enforcement on Labor Day weekend
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- With more cars on the roads this holiday weekend, Illinois State Police will be out in force. State Trooper Jayme Bufford said stepped up enforcement on Labor Day weekend will be ...
Sep 03, 2020 Midwest Communications/Ed Hammond
Many more likely sought jobless aid as layoffs remain high
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government will provide its latest picture Thursday of the layoffs that have remained elevated at a weekly pace of around 1 million since the pandemic erupted nearly six mon...
Sep 03, 2020 Midwest Communications
