Category Archives: Top Stories
OSF: No more COVID-19 testing for asymptomatic people, for now
PEORIA, Ill. - OSF HealthCare says go somewhere else if you want to get tested for COVID-19 but don't have any symptoms. OSF says it's pausing asymptomatic and close contact testing at its facilities,...
Dec 27, 2021
Tremont places flags in honor of longtime community volunteer
TREMONT, Ill. - The community of Tremont is remembering a local resident who recently passed away but left a legacy of community service. Alan Sanders was an Army veteran, but served the Tremont Fire ...
Dec 27, 2021 Rick Otey via 25 News
State gives COVID-19 update, including expanded days and hours at Peoria Civic Center COVID site
CHICAGO, Ill. - As the administration of President Joe Biden is criticized nationally for not giving enough attention to over-the-counter or at-home COVID-19 test production, Illinois Governor JB Prit...
Dec 27, 2021 State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service
'We have more work to do,' Biden says of COVID test shortage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday pledged to ease a shortage of COVID-19 tests as the Omicron variant spreads across U.S. states this holiday week, threatening to overwhelm hosp...
Dec 27, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden and his COVID-19 Response Team, Jeff Zients, COVID-19 Response Coordinator, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor, hold their regular call with the National Governors Association to discuss his Administration's response to the Omicron variant and to hear from the Governors on the needs in their States, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House, in Washington, U.S., December 27, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Police investigate stabbing at apartment complex
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating an early morning stabbing at a local apartment complex. Police say the stabbing in 700 block of Joan Court in the Oak Woods Apartments happened around 3:...
Dec 27, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. President Biden signs $770 billion defense bill
(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, for fiscal year 2022, which authorizes $770 billion in defense spending, the White House said on Mo...
Dec 27, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division soldiers listen as President Donald Trump speaks before signing the National Defense Authorization Act at Fort Drum, New York, U.S., August 13, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Peoria fire company remains out of service, perhaps another week
Peoria, Ill -- A beleaguered Peoria fire company remains out of service despite the highest hopes of a quick return and as COVID-19 infections continue spreading. Company Two, serving areas between We...
Dec 27, 2021 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Rising Omicron cases disrupt air travel, 800 more flights canceled
(Reuters) - U.S. airlines canceled about 800 more flights on Monday after nixing thousands of flights during the Christmas holiday weekend, as Omicron cases across the country rise, forcing crews to i...
Dec 27, 2021 FILE PHOTO: REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage
Man says Christmas Eve "Let's Go Brandon" call to POTUS and FLOTUS triggered death threats
(Reuters) - A vulgar anti-Biden slogan made for an awkward moment on Friday during President Joe Biden's phone calls with children tracking Santa's flight when a father said, "Let's Go Brandon." The r...
Dec 27, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden participate in NORAD Santa tracker phone calls from South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 24, 2021. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
One person seriously injured in East Bluff house fire
UPDATE - PEORIA, Ill. -Four people escaped a Peoria house fire, but one of them was injured seriously. Firefighters arrived at 1900 N. Dechman Ave. at 9:39 a.m. Sunday to see fire coming from a second...
Dec 26, 2021 1470 and 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
