Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria Public Schools Board approves COVID testing policy
PEORIA, Ill. -- With students returning to Peoria Public Schools in phases, the Board of Education Monday night approved the policy for testing students. Thanks to a $200,000 gift from the Gilmore Fou...
Oct 26, 2020 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
Barrett confirmed as Supreme Court Justice
WASHINGTON (AP) - Overpowering Democratic opposition, Senate Republicans confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, securing President Donald Trump's nominee a week before Election Day and a li...
Oct 26, 2020 Rod Lamkey/Pool Photo via AP, File
Pritzker: Testing is one of the best tools in fighting COVID-19
PEORIA, Ill. -- Illinois' Region 2, which includes the tri-county area, is performing better than any of the state's 11 regions, in terms of positivity rates and hospitalizations due to COVID-19. "But...
Oct 26, 2020
Local COVID roundup 10/26: 9 die, new positives surpass 350
PEORIA, Ill. -- Nine Peoria and Tazewell County residents passed away over the weekend from complications related to COVID-19. Eight of the nine were residents of long-term care facilities. In Tazewel...
Oct 26, 2020 Midwest Communications
Gov. Pritzker lobbying for federal support for small businesses
PEORIA, Ill. -- Small businesses across the country have been impacted heavily due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In Illinois, the state has been dispersing Business Interruption Grants (BIG) to he...
Oct 26, 2020 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
State COVID roundup 10/26: positivity rate over 6%
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- 4,729 people throughout Illinois between Sunday and Monday found out they have COVID-19. Illinois Department of Public Health also reported 17 additional deaths related to the vir...
Oct 26, 2020 Midwest Communications
Murray Baker on track for Saturday
PEORIA, Ill. -- Drivers through the Peoria Metro area are in for a welcomed Halloween treat. The Murray Baker Bridge will officially reopen on Oct. 31 after being closed since March 29. Gov. J.B. Prit...
Oct 26, 2020 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Trump plans battleground blitz despite growing virus worries
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump plans to intensify an already breakneck travel schedule in the final full week of the presidential campaign despite growing concerns about the coronavirus nati...
Oct 26, 2020 President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, in Londonderry, N.H. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Tailgate N' Tallboys returning to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- A popular Country music festival is making its way back to Peoria in 2021. According to a press release on Sunday, Tailgate N' Tallboys organizers said the festival will be adding an a...
Oct 26, 2020
Senate to confirm Barrett for court in partisan vote
WASHINGTON (AP) - A deeply divided Senate is set to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Republicans are powering through a vote Monday on President Donald Trump's nominee a week before Ele...
Oct 26, 2020 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives as Republicans work during a rare weekend session to advance the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, at the Capitol in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
