Category Archives: Local News
Family Dollar, Dollar Tree not requiring masks
(UNDATED) -- Family Dollar and Dollar Tree will no longer make you wear a mask. While a growing number of national retailers are requiring shoppers and employees to wear face coverings, Family Dollar ...
Jul 21, 2020 A sign is displayed a Dollar Tree store in Richland, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. Dollar Tree Inc. on Tuesday reported fiscal third-quarter profit of $255.8 million. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
He's back: Trump to re-up virus briefings amid lagging polls
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is set to once again take center stage in the federal government's coronavirus response. That's after a White House debate over how best to deploy its greatest...
Jul 21, 2020 MWC-Fox News Photo Credit
Federal agents, local streets: A 'red flag' in Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The actions of federal law enforcement officers at protests in Oregon's largest city are raising the prospect of a constitutional crisis. It's one that could escalate as weeks of...
Jul 21, 2020 A sign advertising a daily protest in solidarity with Black Lives Matter is affixed to a telephone pole in a historically Black neighborhood in Portland, Ore., on Wednesday, July 1 2020. Thousands of protesters in the liberal and predominantly white city have taken to the streets peacefully every day for more than five weeks to decry police brutality, but recent violence by smaller groups is creating a deep schism in the protest movement and prompting allegations that white protesters are co-opting the moment. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
Britain scientists are working on a possible Coronavirus vaccine
LONDON -- Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot. Bri...
Jul 20, 2020 AP Photo-Siphiwe Sibeko
State COVID roundup 7/20: back over 1,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- After a day that broke a streak of consecutive days with over 1,000 cases of COVID-19, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported Monday's count was 1,173. There were six C...
Jul 20, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 7/20: woman in her hundreds dies
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria County centenarian lost her life over the weekend to COVID-19. The woman in her 100s was not a long-term care facility resident. Alongside the sad news of the area's 41st COVI...
Jul 20, 2020 Midwest Communications
Pritzker, local leaders push student work placement program
PEORIA, Ill. -- Gov. J.B. Pritzker paid a visit Monday to Manual High School, where he helped local leaders kick off the Peoria Public Schools Summer Youth Employment Program. The system is designed t...
Jul 20, 2020 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
Chief Marion: The community must help stop the violence
PEORIA, Ill. -- 13 people were shot early Sunday morning at Peoria's Riverfront. Peoria Police responded at 4:41 a.m. to the area of Water and Hamilton on reports of a large fight, finding close to 20...
Jul 20, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/ Mike Sabol
Duo arrested in connection with a home invasion
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- Around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Peoria County Deputies responded to the 3100 block of W. Augustana regarding a home invasion that had just occurred. Peoria County Sheriff Brian Asbell ...
Jul 20, 2020
Investigator says Peoria fire was intentionally set
PEORIA, Ill. -- Arson appears to be the cause of a Peoria fire Sunday morning. Fire crews responded just after 5 a.m. to a home in the 1100 block of W. Thrush, finding the exterior of the home on fire...
Jul 20, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
