Category Archives: Local News
State COVID roundup 9/20: Woodford County death among 14 statewide
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health on Sunday reported just over 1,400 new coronavirus cases and 14 additional deaths. One of the deaths announced was a Woodford County man i...
Sep 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
Pressure mounts on GOP senators over filling Ginsburg seat
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hammered President Donald Trump and leading Senate Republicans for trying to rush a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as...
Sep 21, 2020 Matthew Kronzek, of Washington, D.C. takes a photo at the Supreme Court as people honor the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Morton High School records no COVID positives for first time this year
MORTON, Ill. -- Morton District 709 is making strides as it relates to COVID-19 positives within the school district. For the first time this school year, no student positives were recorded Friday at ...
Sep 20, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Double shooting early Sunday morning in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria emergency crews responded to reports of gunshot wounds to multiple victims early Sunday morning on the South Side of Peoria. A ShotSpotter alert indicated 20 rounds were fired ar...
Sep 20, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Mail-in ballots being sent out beginning Thursday
PEORIA,Ill. -- Requests for mail-in ballots have been out several weeks now, and on Thursday, September 24, election officials will start mailing those ballots. Peoria County Election Commission's Tho...
Sep 19, 2020 Midwest Communications
McConnell vows quick vote on next justice; Biden says wait
WASHINGTON (AP) - The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just six weeks before the election cast an immediate spotlight on the crucial high court vacancy, with Senate Majority Leader M...
Sep 19, 2020 The flag flies at half-staff at the Supreme Court on the morning after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women's rights champion who became the court's second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She ...
Sep 18, 2020 AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File
BCDI plans move to former Midstate College campus
PEORIA, Ill. -- The former Midstate College campus on Northmoor in Peoria will soon be home to the Blood and Clotting Disorders Institute. BCDI is recognized as one of the top hemophilia treatment cen...
Sep 18, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
CDC changes course, says to get tested if previously in contact with infected person
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. health officials on Friday dropped a controversial piece of coronavirus guidance and said anyone who has been in close contact with an infected person should get tested. The Cente...
Sep 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 9/18: elderly woman dies
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Tazewell County woman in her 80s has succumbed to COVID-19. The Peoria City/County Health Department reported Friday she lived at Villas at Hollybrook in Pekin. The department did no...
Sep 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
