Category Archives: Local News
Inaugural Heart of Illinois Walk raising awareness for CHD
PEORIA, Ill. -- The inaugural Heart of Illinois Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Walk will take place at noon at the Keller Station this Sunday, Sept. 6. However, the walk has turned into a drive-thru pa...
Sep 5, 2020 HOI CHD Walk
Peoria Firefighters respond to Friday night blaze
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters and paramedics responded to a residential fire Friday at 9:13 p.m. The first arriving truck company found a fire in the enclosed porch area of the home, located at ...
Sep 5, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria Fire Union President says 44 positions have been cut in 21 months
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City Council voted on Tuesday to decommission two fire engines in the city to help plug the hole in the budget created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision has not been we...
Sep 5, 2020 1470&100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Peoria firefighters battle electrical fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters responded to a structure fire Friday morning at 825 W. Brons Ave. Upon arrival at 10:19 a.m., heavy smoke was showing. Forced entry to the building by fire crews fo...
Sep 4, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 9/4: deaths in Peoria/Tazewell Counties
PEORIA, Ill. -- For a third day in a row, the Peoria City/County Health Department has reported deaths in the Tri-County area. A Peoria County man in his 90s, a resident of Apostolic Christian Skyline...
Sep 4, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 9/4: data backlog inflates numbers
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A backlog of test reporting caused Friday's statewide COVID-19 numbers to skew highly. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 5,368 new cases of coronavirus. Labs acros...
Sep 4, 2020 Midwest Communications
August U.S. job numbers released
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. unemployment dropped sharply in August from 10.2% to a still-high 8.4%, with about half the 22 million jobs lost to the coronavirus outbreak recovered so far, the government sai...
Sep 4, 2020 Midwest Communications
August jobs report likely to point to slight recovery
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States keeps regaining more of the jobs that vanished when the viral pandemic flattened the economy early this spring. Yet so deep were the layoffs that began in March tha...
Sep 4, 2020 AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
Labor Day: A celebration of the American workforce
PEORIA, Ill. -- Labor Day has been an official holiday in the United States since 1882, but many people may not know why there is a day in the calendar to honor laborers. According to the U.S. Departm...
Sep 3, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 9/3: over 40k tested, positive rate down
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The rolling seven-day statewide positivity rate for COVID-19 has ticked slightly downwards as the Illinois Department of Public Health reported on Thursday 1,360 new cases of the ...
Sep 3, 2020 Midwest Communications
