Category Archives: Top Stories
East Peoria Council approves traffic project
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Motorists going through East Peoria will soon experience some minor inconveniences as traffic work gets underway. Commissioners voted unanimously at Tuesday night's City Council me...
Jul 21, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
State COVID roundup 7/21: two facilities experience outbreaks
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A COVID-19 outbreak at one mental health facility and at one correctional facility have contributed to the state's latest case count. The Illinois Department of Public Health repo...
Jul 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 7/21: two percent of local cases hospitalized
PEORIA, Ill. -- After a decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations over the weekend brought the Peoria region's rolling 28-day hospitalization rate down, the Tuesday report showed a slight increase from Mon...
Jul 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
Changes made to 'Backpack Peoria' due to COVID-19
PEORIA, Ill. -- Backpack Peoria will look a little different this year. Dream Center Peoria will hold their annual Backpack Peoria event for students and their families this Saturday, July 25. The eve...
Jul 21, 2020 (Dream Center Peoria)
Family Dollar, Dollar Tree not requiring masks
(UNDATED) -- Family Dollar and Dollar Tree will no longer make you wear a mask. While a growing number of national retailers are requiring shoppers and employees to wear face coverings, Family Dollar ...
Jul 21, 2020 A sign is displayed a Dollar Tree store in Richland, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. Dollar Tree Inc. on Tuesday reported fiscal third-quarter profit of $255.8 million. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
He's back: Trump to re-up virus briefings amid lagging polls
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is set to once again take center stage in the federal government's coronavirus response. That's after a White House debate over how best to deploy its greatest...
Jul 21, 2020 MWC-Fox News Photo Credit
Federal agents, local streets: A 'red flag' in Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The actions of federal law enforcement officers at protests in Oregon's largest city are raising the prospect of a constitutional crisis. It's one that could escalate as weeks of...
Jul 21, 2020 A sign advertising a daily protest in solidarity with Black Lives Matter is affixed to a telephone pole in a historically Black neighborhood in Portland, Ore., on Wednesday, July 1 2020. Thousands of protesters in the liberal and predominantly white city have taken to the streets peacefully every day for more than five weeks to decry police brutality, but recent violence by smaller groups is creating a deep schism in the protest movement and prompting allegations that white protesters are co-opting the moment. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
Britain scientists are working on a possible Coronavirus vaccine
LONDON -- Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot. Bri...
Jul 20, 2020 AP Photo-Siphiwe Sibeko
State COVID roundup 7/20: back over 1,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- After a day that broke a streak of consecutive days with over 1,000 cases of COVID-19, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported Monday's count was 1,173. There were six C...
Jul 20, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 7/20: woman in her hundreds dies
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria County centenarian lost her life over the weekend to COVID-19. The woman in her 100s was not a long-term care facility resident. Alongside the sad news of the area's 41st COVI...
Jul 20, 2020 Midwest Communications
