Category Archives: Local News
COVID-19 danger continues to drive joblessness in US
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to 860,000, a historically high figure that reflects economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak. Before t...
Sep 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump disputes health officials, sees mass vaccinations soon
WASHINGTON (AP) - Openly contradicting the government's top health experts, President Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that a safe and effective vaccine against the coronavirus could be ready as early...
Sep 17, 2020 President Donald Trump gestures while speaking during a news conference at the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
After Sally: Rescue, recovery and a wary eye on rivers
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Rivers swollen by Hurricane Sally's rains threatened more misery for parts of the Florida Panhandle and south Alabama on Thursday, even as the storm's remnants were forecast to ...
Sep 17, 2020 Cars and a motorcycle are underwater as water floods a street, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Pensacola, Fla. Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecasters said would cause dangerous flooding from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi and well inland in the days ahead.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Bradley President provides enforcement update one week into campus-wide quarantine
PEORIA, Ill. -- Bradley University President Stephen Standifird Wednesday evening provided an update on the campus quarantine. Standifird highlighted the enforcement efforts of the university, saying ...
Sep 16, 2020
Peoria Police ask for help identifying people involved in business burglaries
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Police Department is asking for the public's help identifying people in connection to business burglaries. The burglaries took place May 31 through June 3, when protests and...
Sep 16, 2020 Midwest Communications
WIU shooting suspect taken into custody
MACOMB, Ill. -- A freshman at Western Illinois University has been arrested after a Tuesday night shooting on the Macomb campus. Kavion Poplous, 18, turned himself in at a Chicago Police Department We...
Sep 16, 2020 (Western Illinois University Police)
Peoria Firefighters evacuate several homes Wednesday afternoon due to risk of explosion
PEORIA, Ill. -- Several homes had to be evacuated by Peoria Firefighters Wednesday afternoon due to risk of explosion. Fire crews were called at approximately 3:25 p.m. to the 1100 block of N. Univers...
Sep 16, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
PPS announces students K-1 may resume in-person instruction
PEORIA, Ill. -- Following a Tuesday work session that lasted "all day," as Dr. Sharon Desmoulin-Kherat said, Peoria Public School District 150 announced Wednesday a plan to allow kindergarteners and f...
Sep 16, 2020 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
Local COVID roundup 9/16: triple-digit case count, one additional death
PEORIA, Ill. -- A burst of 109 COVID-19 tests between Tuesday and Wednesday came back positive throughout Peoria, Woodford, and Tazewell Counties, and yet another person has died. The Peoria City/Coun...
Sep 16, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 9/16: 50k+ tests given
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois as a state remained under 2,000 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday as labs took in 52,311 tests. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 1,941 throughout the state te...
Sep 16, 2020 Midwest Communications
