Category Archives: Local News
U.S. Gulf Coast braces for Hurricane Ida after Cuba takes hit
(Reuters) - Hurricane Ida churned toward the U.S. Gulf coast on Saturday, forecast to gather strength in coming hours and prompting evacuations of flood-prone New Orleans neighborhoods and oil rigs in...
Aug 28, 2021 A satellite image shows Tropical Storm Ida after forming in the Caribbean, about 75 miles (125 kilometers) north-northwest of Grand Cayman, August 27, 2021. NOAA/via REUTERS
U.S. attacks Islamic State after Afghan airport blast
(Reuters) -The United States attacked an Islamic State "planner" in Afghanistan in retaliation for a deadly bombing outside Kabul airport and said there was a high risk of further blasts as it nears t...
Aug 28, 2021 A U.S. Marine assists at an Evacuation Control Check Point (ECC) during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 26, 2021. Picture taken August 26, 2021. U.S. Marine Corps/Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/Handout via REUTERS
Steiner: 'I was just a kid from New York hoping to become a broadcaster'
PEORIA, Ill. -- At the young age of five years old, he announced Brooklyn Dodger games. It may have been from the basement of his home on Long Island, but that laid the foundation for Charley Steiner'...
Aug 27, 2021 1470-100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
ROE Head: Issues with mandatory COVID vaccines and testing for teachers
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Regional Superintendent of Schools says Governor JB Pritzker's new mandate requiring all teachers to get tested or fully vaccinated against COVID-19 might be a bit pro...
Aug 27, 2021 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Former Ambassador: Afghanistan situation a "disaster" for U.S.
PEORIA, Ill. - A former Ambassador to Afghanistan who will be speaking again in Peoria in a few weeks says the U.S. withdrawal from that country has been "terrible," and the country has a "disaster" o...
Aug 27, 2021 Courtesy: American Academy of Diplomacy
LaHood: Biden's handling of the situation in Kabul shows weakness
PEORIA, Ill. -- A pair of explosions outside the Kabul Airport on Thursday took the lives of 13 U.S. troops and left over a dozen others injured. 18th District Congressman Darin LaHood (IL-R), of Peor...
Aug 27, 2021 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
U.S. Supreme Court ends CDC's pandemic residential eviction moratorium
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ended the pandemic-related federal moratorium on residential evictions imposed by President Joe Biden's administration in a challenge to the po...
Aug 27, 2021 FILE PHOTO: The sun rises behind the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2021. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo/File Photo
U.S. coronavirus hospitalizations hit eight-month high over 100,000
(Reuters) - The number of coronavirus patients in U.S. hospitals breached 100,000 on Thursday, the highest level in eight months, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, as a resurge...
Aug 27, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A nurse tends to a COVID-19 patient during a tour of SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., August 24, 2021. REUTERS/Nick Oxford
East Peoria not enforcing Illinois' new COVID mandates
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- East Peoria Mayor John Kahl said in a Facebook post Thursday night that his city will not be enforcing Gov. J-B Pritzker's latest COVID restrictions. He said quote, "East Peoria w...
Aug 27, 2021 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Officials: More local COVID cases among youth, among other problems
PEORIA, Ill. - COVID-19 cases continue to be on the rise in the Tri-County region, and that has the head of the Peoria City/County Health Department more than a little concerned. Administrator Monica ...
Aug 26, 2021 Will Stevenson - 1470 & 100.3 WMBD
