Category Archives: Top Stories
Kasper: The Omicron variant will eventually break
PEORIA, Ill. -- With a record number of new COVID cases reported in the U.S. on Monday, hospitalizations and outcomes are very high, with a majority of cases attributed to the highly transmissible Omi...
Jan 11, 2022 Midwest Communications
Actress Betty White died of stroke suffered 6 days earlier
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The cause of actress Betty White's death on New Year's Eve, at age 99, was a stroke she had suffered nearly a week earlier, a copy of the performer's death certificate posted o...
Jan 11, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Actress Betty White arrives as a guest for the Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World gala in New York May 4, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Biden to push Senate rule change in bid to pass voting-rights law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday will begin an effort to weaken rules that allow a minority group of senators to kill proposed laws, arguing democracy is in peril unless new v...
Jan 11, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the December 2021 jobs report during a speech in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 7, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
U.S. reports 1.35 million COVID-19 cases in a day, shattering global record
(Reuters) - The United States reported 1.35 million new coronavirus infections on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, the highest daily total for any country in the world as the spread of the highly...
Jan 11, 2022 People wait outside a community center as long lines continue for individuals trying to be tested for COVID-19 during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in San Diego, California, U.S., January 10, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Chicago schools to reopen after teachers agree to end COVID-19 walkout
(Reuters) -Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest U.S. education district, will resume in-person classes on Wednesday after a union backed ending a walkout over COVID-19 fears in an agreement it sa...
Jan 11, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Darwin Elementary after Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third-largest school district, said it would cancel classes since the teachers' union voted in favor of a return to remote learning, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
PPS approves expanded COVID-19 testing
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public Schools entered into an agreement Monday night for SHIELD Illinois to provide additional COVID-19 PCR testing. The school board unanimously approved the agreement at no c...
Jan 11, 2022 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
Man arrested, was wanted since December police incident
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say a man they've been looking for over the past month is no longer wanted. Police say DeAngelo Coleman, 22, is "in police custody in another jurisdiction," according to a...
Jan 10, 2022 (Peoria Police Department)
Arctic blast brings wind-chill alerts to northern U.S
(Reuters) - Arctic air blasting across the northern tier of the United States gripped parts of the High Plains, the Upper Midwest and New England on Monday, with wind-chill alerts posted from Montana ...
Jan 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A man walks his dog by the Ohio River during a snow storm in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. January 6, 2022. REUTERS/Amira Karaoud
Peoria man gets lengthy federal prison sentence for meth plea
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man will spend more than 15 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2021 to Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Dustin Tes...
Jan 10, 2022 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail (2017 Photo)
U.S. and Russia still poles apart on Ukraine after Geneva talks
GENEVA (Reuters) -Russia and the United States gave no sign that they had narrowed their differences on Ukraine and wider European security in talks in Geneva on Monday, as Moscow repeated demands tha...
Jan 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: National flags of Russia and the U.S. fly at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
