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Local COVID roundup 10/6: daily count well below recent average
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department reported 45 area residents between Monday and Tuesday received positive COVID-19 test results. That number was a significant departure from las...
Oct 06, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria's Santa Claus Parade will go on
PEORIA, Ill. -- Many area events have been canceled this year due to COVID-19, but Peoria's 133rd Santa Clause Parade won't be one of them. Peoria Area Community Events, the parade's organizer, said i...
Oct 06, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
State COVID roundup 10/6: high testing numbers continue
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Close to 50,000 people throughout Illinois between Monday and Tuesday were tested for coronavirus. Illinois Department of Public Health said 49,513 specimens were collected as 1,6...
Oct 06, 2020 Midwest Communications
Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Barrett set to begin Oct. 12
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination, starting Monday, October 12th at 8am Central Time. The hearing is expected to l...
Oct 06, 2020 FILE - Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trumps nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, meets with Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. Barrett graduated with honors in 1994 from a small liberal arts school, Rhodes College in Memphis. Many alumni have posted a letter on social media expressing their opposition to Barrett's nomination to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court after Ginsburg's death last month.(Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)
Trump, still infectious, back at White House — without mask
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House after leaving the military hospital where he was receiving an unprecedented level of care for COVID-19. He immediat...
Oct 06, 2020 President Donald Trump stands on the balcony outside of the Blue Room as returns to the White House Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Washington, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md. Trump announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 2. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Man shot in vehicle at Taft Homes
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police responded to reports of shots fired at Taft Homes just after 1 p.m. Monday. Officers located an adult male victim who'd been shot in the arm. Peoria Public Information Of...
Oct 06, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Family escapes fire overnight on N. Sheridan
PEORIA, Ill. -- After just clearing a vehicle fire, Peoria fire crews were called just after 10:30 p.m. Monday to the 1200 block of N. Sheridan for a working fire. A passerby flagged down firefighters...
Oct 06, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Two justices slam 2015 gay marriage case in first day back from summer break
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court, already poised to take a significant turn to the right, opened its new term Monday with a jolt from two conservative justices who raised new criticism of the court...
Oct 05, 2020 AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
President Trump leaves hospital after three days
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) - President Donald Trump on Monday walked out of the military hospital where for three days he had been receiving an unprecedented level of care for COVID-19. Wearing a mask, Trump ...
Oct 05, 2020 AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Local COVID roundup 10/5: 2 weekend deaths
PEORIA, Ill. -- A pair of Tazewell County residents passed away over the weekend from complications related to coronavirus. The Peoria City/County Health Department on Monday reported a female in her ...
Oct 05, 2020 Midwest Communications
