Category Archives: Local News
Local COVID roundup 11/6: over 300 new cases in 24 hours
PEORIA, Ill. -- Four people died and 325 people tested positive between Thursday and Friday for COVID-19 throughout the Peoria-Tazewell-Woodford tri-county. The deaths in Peoria County were of two fem...
Nov 6, 2020 Midwest Communications
Former Bush, Romney aide says Trump legal pursuit likely futile
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's Thursday night speech from the White House Briefing Room left many talking heads and the voting public at large wondering if the President would take legal actio...
Nov 6, 2020 Midwest Communications
Police investigating apparent Central Peoria murder
***UPDATE*** Harwood has identified the person shot as 23-year-old Treek Booker-Lawson. She sustained multiple gunshot wounds to her body, Harwood said. The coroner was not releasing any details about...
Nov 6, 2020 Midwest Communications
Biden eases ahead in Georgia; Trump attacks election process
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Joe Biden gained ground in tight contests Thursday in key battleground states - and then inched ahead Friday in Georgia. With his pathway to reelection appearing to shrink, ...
Nov 6, 2020 AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Pres. Trump speaks from WH, claims election being stolen
The Associated Press has not declared a winner in the presidential race, with a number of battleground states still too early to call. But President Donald Trump is renewing his claims that Democrats ...
Nov 5, 2020 AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Defense Sec'y planning exit
WASHINGTON -- United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper was planning Thursday to resign, according to sources. Part of the reason he is planning to leave his post, the sources said, is because he ...
Nov 5, 2020 Midwest Communications
Festival of Lights plans revealed
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- The 2020 East Peoria Festival of Lights has been scheduled, albeit with provisions for COVID-19. The event is set for Nov. 21 at 5:45 P.M. The two-mile route will start at the int...
Nov 5, 2020 Rick Hirschmann/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 11/5: 7 deaths retroactively added
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department Thursday reported two new deaths from COVID-19, both females who resided at Heritage Health in Chillicothe. One female was in her 80s, while th...
Nov 5, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 11/5: 10k deaths, nearly 10k cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- 10,000 was the number on Thursday to keep in mind, as Illinois hit one dubious COVID-19 milestone and nearly hit another. The Illinois Department of Public Health said with 97 dea...
Nov 5, 2020 Midwest Communications
State of the race: still too close to call
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Joe Biden pushed closer Thursday to the 270 Electoral College votes he needed to win the White House, securing victories in the "blue wall" battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Mi...
Nov 5, 2020 AP Photo/Evan Vucci
