Category Archives: Local News
Local COVID roundup 12/15: key metric met
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria County added two deaths between Monday and Tuesday to its COVID totals. A woman in her 90s who lived at Sharon Elms and a man in his 60s with comorbidities both succumbed to vir...
Dec 15, 2020 Midwest Communications
First Illinoisans receive COVID-19 vaccine in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike were on hand in Peoria Tuesday as the first front line care givers in the state received the...
Dec 15, 2020 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
State COVID roundup 12/15: hospitalizations fall below 5k
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Statewide COVID-19 hospitalizations between Monday and Tuesday dropped beneath 5,000. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 4,965 people with the virus as of Monday ni...
Dec 15, 2020 Midwest Communications
McConnell congratulates Joe Biden as president-elect
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated Democrat Joe Biden on Tuesday as the president-elect. The Republican leader said the Electoral College "has spoken." The Republic...
Dec 15, 2020 Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP
Illinois House panel ends probe of powerful Speaker Madigan
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois House committee has ended its consideration of a breach of trust claim against House Speaker Michael Madigan, voting down further proceedings that could have led t...
Dec 15, 2020 In this photo taken on Monday, May 19, 2014, llinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, speaks to lawmakers while on the House floor during session at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield Ill. As it becomes increasingly difficult to muster 60 votes for the extension of the states income tax increase, some lawmakers are pitching other options to consider, including a gradual roll back of tax rates as more a politically viable alternative. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
Democrats squeezed as COVID-19 relief talks continue
WASHINGTON (AP) - Top Washington negotiators continue to reach for a long-delayed agreement on COVID-19 relief, but rank-and-file Democrats appear increasingly resigned to having to drop a demand for ...
Dec 15, 2020 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Peoria Public Schools examining change to balanced schedule
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public Schools are examining what a change to a "balanced calendar" would look like within the district. In a balanced calendar concept, there is less time working consecutive d...
Dec 14, 2020 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
Biden clears 270-vote mark as electors affirm his victory
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Electoral College gave Joe Biden a majority of its votes Monday, confirming his victory in last month's election in state-by-state voting that took on added importance this year ...
Dec 14, 2020
AG Barr submits resignation letter
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Bill Barr has told President Donald Trump he will be vacating his post. Trump made the announcement via Twitter: Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill ...
Dec 14, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria Police head Marion announces retirement
PEORIA, Ill. -- Just after his two-year anniversary of being named Peoria Chief of Police, Loren Marion announced on Monday he will be stepping down effective Jan. 22, 2021. "This is something my wife...
Dec 14, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/ Mike Sabol
