Category Archives: Top Stories
Double shooting early Sunday morning in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria emergency crews responded to reports of gunshot wounds to multiple victims early Sunday morning on the South Side of Peoria. A ShotSpotter alert indicated 20 rounds were fired ar...
Sep 20, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Mail-in ballots being sent out beginning Thursday
PEORIA,Ill. -- Requests for mail-in ballots have been out several weeks now, and on Thursday, September 24, election officials will start mailing those ballots. Peoria County Election Commission's Tho...
Sep 19, 2020 Midwest Communications
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women's rights champion who became the court's second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She ...
Sep 18, 2020 AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File
BCDI plans move to former Midstate College campus
PEORIA, Ill. -- The former Midstate College campus on Northmoor in Peoria will soon be home to the Blood and Clotting Disorders Institute. BCDI is recognized as one of the top hemophilia treatment cen...
Sep 18, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
CDC changes course, says to get tested if previously in contact with infected person
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. health officials on Friday dropped a controversial piece of coronavirus guidance and said anyone who has been in close contact with an infected person should get tested. The Cente...
Sep 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 9/18: elderly woman dies
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Tazewell County woman in her 80s has succumbed to COVID-19. The Peoria City/County Health Department reported Friday she lived at Villas at Hollybrook in Pekin. The department did no...
Sep 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 9/18: testing hits 60k
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- After two straight days of over 50,000 tests performed throughout the state, the Illinois Department of Public Health said Friday there had been over 60,000 specimens taken by lab...
Sep 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
War hero to kick off Vietnam Wall ceremony
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Not only will the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall be on display next week in the Levee District of East Peoria, but the opening ceremony will feature a decorated guest. Lt. Col. H...
Sep 18, 2020 Midwest Communications
US bans WeChat, TikTok citing national security
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. will ban the use of WeChat Sunday to "safeguard the national security of the United States." The Chinese app TikTok will also be banned by Nov. 12, but Commerce Secretary Wi...
Sep 18, 2020 AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein
Rescuers reach people cut off by Gulf Coast hurricane
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Rescuers on the Gulf Coast used boats and high-water vehicles Thursday to reach people cut off by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally, even as a second round of floo...
Sep 18, 2020 AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
