Category Archives: Top Stories
Tri-County COVID Update: Outbreak at long-term care facility could have been worse; pediatric COVID vaccines ordered
PEORIA, Ill. - The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Tri-County region continues to average less than 100 per day, but that's counting what officials say is an outbreak at a local long-term...
Oct 21, 2021 (Peoria City/County Health Department)
OSF unveils, blesses new Street Medicine Program shuttle vehicle
PEORIA, Ill. - On the outside, it looks like a typical passenger bus. But on the inside, a former OSF HealthCare passenger bus has been transformed in to a new mobile medical unit. It's for OSF's "Str...
Oct 21, 2021 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Bradley men's basketball lands 6th in MVC pre-season poll
Peoria, Ill -- Bradley men's basketball is ranked sixth in a preseason poll going into the Missouri Valley Conference 20-21-22 season. The poll came out late Wednesday. Drake comes in at number one. L...
Oct 21, 2021 Bradley University
Chiropractic clinic raided by FBI
EUREKA, Ill. - Preferred Care Medical Clinic in Eureka is apparently being targeted by the FBI. A spokeswoman for the FBI tells news partner 25 News a "court-authorized law enforcement activity" was c...
Oct 21, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Peoria budget includes more police officers
PEORIA, Ill. - Some of the solutions to the city of Peoria's ongoing violence problems -- or at least the path to them -- may come from the City of Peoria's budget for the next two years. For one, the...
Oct 21, 2021 MWC-Peoria Police Media Release
U.S. Democrats near deal on price tag for Biden's social bill, Manchin says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats are close to agreeing on an overall price tag for U.S. President Joe Biden's ambitious expansion of social programs, centrist Senator Joe Manchin said on Thursday, tho...
Oct 21, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) faces reporters outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 30, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Rivermen hockey returns for a 40th season this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- As of Friday, it will have been 593 days since the Peoria Rivermen hockey team has played a game. The team's games Friday and Saturday night open the Rivermen's 40th season in Peoria a...
Oct 21, 2021 (Peoria Rivermen Hockey)
U.S. weekly jobless claims hit 19-month low; labor market recovery gains traction
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits dropped to a 19-month low last week, pointing to a tightening labor market, though a shortage of workers coul...
Oct 21, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Construction workers wait in line to do a temperature test to return to the job site after lunch, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 10, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Biden pushes infrastructure in Pennsylvania as Democrats try to seal deal
SCRANTON, Pa. (Reuters) - With his economic agenda hanging in the balance, President Joe Biden on Wednesday visited the Pennsylvania city of his birth to push infrastructure and spending plans he said...
Oct 21, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) to Marine One as they depart for Scranton, Pennsylvania, from the White House in Washington, U.S., October 20, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Former U.S. president Donald Trump launches 'TRUTH' social media platform
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump will launch his own social media app, TRUTH Social, that he said would "stand up to Big Tech" companies such as Twitter and Facebook that have...
Oct 21, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Iowa States Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., October 9, 2021. REUTERS/Rachel Mummey
