Category Archives: Top Stories
Gov. Pritzker announces expanded COVID-19 mobile testing programs
CHICAGO -- During a visit to a mobile testing site at Coles Elementary School on Wednesday, Governor JB Pritzker announced the expansion of the state's mobile testing operation with twelve COVID-19 mo...
Jul 08, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
State COVID roundup 7/8: biggest uptick since early June
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Department of Public Health on Wednesday reported its largest 24-hour increase of statewide COVID-19 cases in over a month. 980 was the highest number since the 1,156 rep...
Jul 08, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 7/8: double-digit increase, no new deaths
PEORIA, Ill. -- A local increase of 15 COVID-19 cases reported Wednesday brought the area's total to 772. Peoria County saw the biggest jump, 10, to bring its total to 579. 100 of those cases were in ...
Jul 08, 2020 Midwest Communications
'Strike for Black Lives' to highlight racism
NEW YORK (AP) - A national coalition of labor unions, along with racial and social justice organizations, will stage a mass walkout from work this month, as part of an ongoing reckoning on systemic ra...
Jul 08, 2020 Mike Bailey/Village of Peoria Heights
PPD opens Resource Center in the East Bluff
PEORIA, Ill. -- A police presence in the East Bluff. Peoria Police on Wednesday, July 8, opened a new Police Resource Center in the 2300 block of N. Wisconsin in the former Kroger building, now owned ...
Jul 08, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
Confirmed coronavirus cases in US hit 3 million and climbing
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus has hit 3 million, according to the count kept by Johns Hopkins University. But U.S. health officials say the real number of infecti...
Jul 08, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump threatens to cut federal aid if schools don't reopen
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold federal money if schools don't reopen in the fall. He says the guidelines that his own federal health officials have created for sc...
Jul 08, 2020 MWC-Fox News Photo Credit
PPS Chief of Resource Officers wins national recognition
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public Schools' Chief of Resource Officers, Demario Boone, has won a national award for school safety in K-12 schools from Campus Safety Magazine. "I've been on the street befor...
Jul 08, 2020 Peoria Public Schools
Early morning shooting in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called around 3:40 a.m. Wednesday to the scene of a shooting in the 1200 block of W. Millman. Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said a ShotSpotter alert indicate...
Jul 08, 2020
Fire fighters battle extreme heat in an afternoon apartment fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Firefighter/Paramedics were called out around 2:00 p.m. Tuesday to a reported structure fire at 2700 W. Willowlake Drive. Fire crew found a three-story apartment complex with he...
Jul 07, 2020 Midwest Communications
