Category Archives: Top Stories
1.4 million Americans file for unemployment benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of laid-off Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week for the first time since the pandemic struck in March, evidence of the deepening economic pain the outbr...
Jul 23, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump deploys more federal agents under 'law-and-order' push
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump says he will send federal agents into Chicago and Albuquerque to help combat rising crime as he runs for reelection under a "law-and-order" mantle. Using alarm...
Jul 22, 2020 AP-Photo/Evan Vucci
Columbus statue: keep or remove? Park District wants feedback
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Park District is seeking public opinion about the future of the Christopher Columbus statue that sits in Bradley Park. The district has scheduled a Facebook Live event for 6...
Jul 22, 2020 Peoria Park District
Local COVID roundup 7/22: improvement in two big areas
PEORIA, Ill. -- Two local COVID-19 metrics trended in the right direction from Tuesday to Wednesday. First, tri-county hospitalizations dropped to 29 from 31. Six people were in intensive care unit be...
Jul 22, 2020 Midwest Communications
Hackers prey on COVID assistance program
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A nationwide security breach has led the Illinois Department of Employment Security to issue a dire warning. Each state's Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program has been...
Jul 22, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
State COVID roundup 7/22: almost 1,600 new cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- For the first time since early June, the state of Illinois's 24-hour COVID-19 case count surpassed the 1,500 mark over a 24-hour period. The Illinois Department of Public Health o...
Jul 22, 2020 Midwest Communications
Red, White, and Boom canceled
PEORIA, Ill. - Organizers of Red, White, and Boom have decided to outright cancel the 2020 event. Officials on May 1 postponed the July 4 event, with the hopes of holding it around Labor Day if the co...
Jul 22, 2020 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Laynee Mauerman)
US signs contract with Pfizer for COVID-19 vaccine doses
WASHINGTON (AP) - Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says the U.S. has signed a contract with Pfizer for delivery in December of the first 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine the pharma...
Jul 22, 2020 Midwest Communications
PPS answers questions about back-to-school plans
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public Schools gave parents an opportunity Tuesday night to ask questions and to comment on the school district's return to school plan. Questions were sent in ahead of the virt...
Jul 22, 2020 1470/100.3 WMBD
EPCHS will start year with remote learning due to flooding
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- East Peoria Community High School will start the 2020-21 school year with all remote learning. 9.3 inches of rain that fell in a matter of an hour and a half on July 15, caused fl...
Jul 22, 2020 (25 News/HOI)
