Category Archives: Top Stories
CAT sees 12-month sale and revenue decrease
DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Caterpillar, Inc. saw a downward trend in 2019 from 2018, numbers released Friday show. The company took in $53.8 billion in sales and revenues in 2019, compared to $54.7 billion in...
Jan 31, 2020 (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Second case of coronavirus in Illinois confirmed
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The first U.S. case of person-to-person spread of the coronavirus has been confirmed in Illinois. "This person-to-person spread was between two people with very close contact. A H...
Jan 31, 2020 Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, discusses the discovery of a second case in Illinois of the novel coronavirus and the public health efforts to contain and study it, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020 in Springfield, Ill., (AP Photo/John O'Connor)
Illinois unemployment lower as Peoria lost jobs
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The unemployment rate in Illinois saw a decrease from 2018 to 2019. Preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Illinois Department of Employment Secur...
Jan 30, 2020 AP Photo/Seth Perlman
Peoria City becomes newest USL League Two expansion club
PEORIA, Ill. -- Pre-professional soccer is coming to Peoria beginning in May of 2020. The United Soccer League (USL) announced the expansion franchise of Peoria City on Jan. 23, and a news conference ...
Jan 30, 2020 Photo Credit/USL League 2
Murray Baker Bridge closures announced
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Transportation has announced another round of lane closures for the Murray Baker Bridge. Workers will be conducting prep work for the upcoming deck replaceme...
Jan 30, 2020 (Illinois Dept. of Transportation)
Illinois election officials announce anti-hacking program
PEKIN, Ill. -- Illinois election officials are taking steps to avoid hackers getting into the state voter database, as the Russians pulled off in 2016. The Illinois state Board of Elections along with...
Jan 30, 2020 Tazewell County clerk John Ackerman addressing the media
(Courtesy of Kevin Bessler/WMBD)
PIA with benchmark year
PEORIA, Ill. -- 2019 was an all-around record-setting year for General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport. Eight monthly passenger records, including a July that was the busiest month in ai...
Jan 30, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Trump's defense shifts to not 'impeachable'
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump adjourned late Wednesday night with Republicans appearing focused on bringing the proceedings to a vote of acquittal, possibly ...
Jan 30, 2020 In this image from video, White House deputy counsel Patrick Philbin answers a question during the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)
China counts 170 virus deaths, new countries find infections
BEIJING (AP) - China has counted 170 deaths from a new virus and more countries have reported infections, including some spread locally, as foreign evacuees from China's worst-hit region returned home...
Jan 30, 2020 Hospital directors and provincial public health officials gather to participate in a medical preparedness meeting to face the threat of new coronavirus outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. The death toll rose to 170 in the new virus outbreak in China on Thursday as foreign evacuees from the worst-hit region begin returning home under close observation and world health officials expressed "great concern" that the disease is starting to spread between people outside of China. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Creve Coeur man sentenced for enticing, sexually abusing minors
PEORIA, Ill. -- A sex offender has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for enticing and sexually exploiting minor girls. Charles Hewitt, 48, from Creve Coeur, admitted to creating a false identity on...
Jan 30, 2020 Peoria County Jail
