Category Archives: Local News
Drive For Miracles goes on despite COVID changes
PEORIA,Ill. -- For 20 years, 93.3 The Drive, has been championing OSF Healthcare Children's Hospital of Illinois in Peoria. Drive morning hosts John Riley and Nancy Flagg would typically be broadcasti...
Dec 11, 2020
FDA head expects vaccine emergency use soon
WASHINGTON - The head of the Food and Drug Administration says his agency has told Pfizer that it "will rapidly work" to grant emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine following a positive recommendation...
Dec 11, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2020 file photo, Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, testifies during a Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing on the federal government response to COVID-19 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hahn said Thursday’s meeting on Dec. 10 of the vaccine advisory panel is “an important day for all of America." He hopes it will lead to the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP, File)
Congress stuck, McConnell resists state aid in COVID-19 deal
WASHINGTON (AP) - An emerging $900 billion COVID-19 aid package from a bipartisan group of lawmakers all but collapsed Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republican senators won't s...
Dec 11, 2020 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, speaks during a news conference following a weekly meeting with the Senate Republican caucus, Tuesday, Dec. 8. 2020 at the Capitol in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP)
Man arrested for second armed robbery this week
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called to the Circle K gas station in the 4200 block of N. Knoxville Tuesday night on reports of an armed robbery. Officers were told the suspect entered the busines...
Dec 11, 2020 (Peoria Police Department)
Peoria launching project to comply with EPA
PEORIA, Ill. -- The City of Peoria on Thursday released a long-range plan that aims gradually to eliminate its use of combined sewer overflow. The $109 million plan aims to fully reduce CSO by Dec. 31...
Dec 10, 2020 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Health Department unsure of vaccination distribution timetable
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department announced Thursday there is no timetable for distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine for the Tri-County area if it is approved by the FDA. Peoria ...
Dec 10, 2020 Ben Pollard/1470-100.3 WMBD
FDA advisers approve emergency use of COVID vaccine
WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. government advisory panel has endorsed Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine, in a major step toward an epic vaccination campaign that could finally conquer the outbreak. The Food and ...
Dec 10, 2020 Midwest Communications
LaHood throws support behind Texas lawsuit
***UPDATE*** LaHood has released a statement: I joined over 100 of my Republican colleagues to sign onto an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the case filed by the Attorney General ...
Dec 10, 2020 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 12/10: youngest area person to date dies
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Metro experienced five deaths between Wednesday and Thursday related to the coronavirus, including the area's youngest COVID-related death to date. The Peoria City/County Health...
Dec 10, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 12/10: almost 200 die
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Nearly 200 people in the state of Illinois between Wednesday and Thursday died from COVID-19 complications. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 11,101 new positive c...
Dec 10, 2020 Midwest Communications
