Category Archives: Top Stories
Gunn: Chamber's vision for growing Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- How can the City of Peoria reach it's full potential? Joshua Gunn, CEO of the Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce, told WMBD's "The Greg and Dan Show", in order to make progress over the n...
Sep 17, 2021 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Illinois residents enrolled in Affordable Care Act insurance doubled during COVID enrollment period, says state
CHICAGO, Ill. - The number of Illinois residents who signed up for health insurance through the federal Affordable Care Act was helped greatly, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That's according to the Il...
Sep 17, 2021 Pictures of Money / CC
Police respond to crash involving school bus
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police closed east bound Charter Oak Road at Orange Prairie around 7:20 a.m. Friday due to an accident. Thomas Bruch, Director of Public Relations and Community Engagement for P...
Sep 17, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Washington man sentenced to 37 years for 2019 murder
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. -- 53-year-old Daniel Allbritton was sentenced to 37 years in prison on Thursday. The Washington man plead guilty on Aug. 5 to first-degree murder in the 2019 death of John Tyler...
Sep 17, 2021 (Tazewell County Jail)
U.S. COVID-19 booster debate moves to FDA vaccine advisory committee
(Reuters) - The debate over whether Americans should receive a booster dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine moves to a panel of independent expert advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administra...
Sep 17, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A person receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a mobile inoculation site in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, U.S., August 18, 2021. REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado
Chauvin, convicted in Floyd's murder, pleads not guilty to violating teen's rights
(Reuters) - The former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd pleaded not guilty on Thursday to violating a teenager's civil rights by using a neck restraint similar to the one...
Sep 17, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses his sentencing hearing and the judge as he awaits his sentence after being convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. June 25, 2021 in a still image from video. Pool via REUTERS
COVID cases increase in the Tri-Counties, but not among young children
PEORIA, Ill. - While local COVID-19 cases are continuing to increase somewhat, local health officials say there's one age group that, thankfully, isn't that impacted yet. Other areas of the country ha...
Sep 16, 2021 Peoria City/County Health Department via Facebook
Biden expects Congress to approve spending, infrastructure bills
(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday expressed confidence that Congress will pass both a bill funding infrastructure investments and a supplementary spending bill as Democrats seek to infus...
Sep 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden gives remarks at Mather Airport, California, U.S., September 13, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Pritzker blames local officials for continued COVID-19 mitigations
CHICAGO, Ill. - It remains not the most popular statement Illinois Governor JB Pritzker will ever make, but Pritzker is again urging residents to "mask up." Pritzker says while the state's COVID-19 nu...
Sep 16, 2021 State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service
Brush fire on I-74 being investigated
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Fire officials say a late-morning brush fire that caused some problems on Interstate 74 may be intentional. The brush fire was first reported around 10:30 A.M. Thursday on the in...
Sep 16, 2021 Illinois Department of Transportation
