Category Archives: Local News
Health Department gives update
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria-Tazewell-Woodford tri-county area moved up Friday to 23 positive COVID-19 cases. Peoria remained at nine and Woodford stayed at six. Tazewell had eight -- two additional cas...
Apr 03, 2020 Midwest Communications
Pritzker announces more hospital capacity sites
CHICAGO -- Governor J.B. Pritzker announced additional alternative care sites in Chicago and Springfield on Friday in preparation for the COVID-19 outbreak. More beds were being added to the 28,000 be...
Apr 03, 2020 Midwest Communications
UnityPoint Health asking for help from community
PEORIA, Ill. -- The UnityPoint Health systems in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin have joined to help secure enough Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to provide to staff. There are ways that the commun...
Apr 03, 2020 UnityPoint Health
'Lean On Me,' 'Lovely Day' singer Bill Withers dies at 81
(AP) -- Singer Bill Withers has died. He wrote and sang a string of soulful songs in the 1970s that have stood the test of time, including "Lean on Me," "Lovely Day" and "Ain't No Sunshine." According...
Apr 03, 2020 FILE - This April 18, 2015 file photo shows singer-songwriter Bill Withers speaking at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Cleveland. Withers, who wrote and sang a string of soulful songs in the 1970s that have stood the test of time, including “Lean On Me,” “Lovely Day” and “Ain’t No Sunshine," died in Los Angeles from heart complications on Monday, March 30, 2020. He was 81. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
701,000 U.S. jobs lost in March
(AP) - A record-long streak of U.S. job growth ended suddenly in March after nearly a decade as employers cut 701,000 jobs because of the viral outbreak that's all but shut down the U.S. economy. The ...
Apr 03, 2020 (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Man shot overnight in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police confirm a man was hospitalized early Friday morning after being shot. Peoria Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said a Shot Spotter alert came in around 1:45 a.m. from...
Apr 03, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
From the front lines of a pandemic
PEORIA, Ill. -- Nurses are on the front lines of pandemics, how do they handle it? Nykole Jackson, an emergency services nurse at OSF HealthCare Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center in Pontiac,...
Apr 03, 2020 Midwest Communications
Some Americans may not receive stimulus payment until mid-August
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government expects to begin making payments to millions of Americans under the new stimulus law in mid-April, but some people without direct deposit information may not ...
Apr 02, 2020 Midwest Communications
COVID-19 count in Tri-County area now at 21
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department announced four new cases of COVID-19 in the Tri-County area Thursday at their daily briefing. There are now nine cases in Peoria County, six ca...
Apr 02, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria Civic Center a possible hospital
PEORIA, Ill. -- Taking inspiration from what the state government has done with Chicago's McCormick Place, City of Peoria officials have been discussing potential locations for makeshift hospitals in ...
Apr 02, 2020 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
