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OSF Healthcare signs letter of intent with LaSalle-Peru-based hospital
PEORIA, Ill. - OSF Healthcare will be expanding its reach north. OSF and St. Margaret's Health, based in the LaSalle-Peru area, have signed a letter of intent. It will allow for OSF to purchase assets...
TJ Carson May 05, 2023 (OSF HealthCare)
UPDATE: U.S. CDC chief Rochelle Walensky stepping down in June
UPDATED 4:34 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, a top health official who oversaw the agency's contentious response to the...
Will Stevenson May 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Dr. Rochelle Walensky, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on the monkeypox outbreak, in Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 14, 2022.
UPDATE: Assault weapons ban back in place for now after appellate court's order
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The assault weapons ban that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law in January is back in force after a federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a temporary inju...
TJ Carson May 05, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
CDC to scale back data collection as US ends COVID health emergency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday it would stop reporting or monitoring COVID-19 case data and transmission rates after the government end...
TJ Carson May 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell/File Photo
PPD investigating Friday morning death
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called early Friday morning to the area of W. Wiswall Street and W. Lincoln Avenue on reports of a person on fire. PPD Spokesperson Semone Roth says officers arrived...
Julia Bradley May 05, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US job growth accelerates in April; jobless rate falls to 3.4%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth accelerated in April while wage gains increased solidly, pointing to sustained labor market strength that could compel the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates...
Julia Bradley May 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign with a QR code is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
World leaders gather in London for King Charles' coronation
LONDON (Reuters) - King Charles will hold a reception on Friday for world leaders gathered in London for his coronation this weekend, the biggest ceremonial event to be staged in Britain for 70 years....
Julia Bradley May 05, 2023 A man walks past a shop's display window in Durham, Britain, May 5, 2023. REUTERS/Lee Smith
Car with suspected shooter crashes into home
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are looking for someone who might have used a gun near Northwoods Mall early Thursday morning. Police say an officer parked on War Memorial Drive near the mall heard the s...
Will Stevenson May 04, 2023 Midwest Communications
Man, arrested for sixth time this year, accused of attempted arson
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - A Hanna City man has been arrested for the sixth time this year in Peoria County -- this time for allegedly attempting to set a home on fire. The Peoria County Sheriffs Departmen...
Will Stevenson May 04, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail March 2023)
California man charged with defrauding Central Illinois investors
URBANA, Ill. - A California man and his company are accused of defrauding Central Illinois residents out of more than $20 million. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Brett Bartlett, 37, and his companies...
Will Stevenson May 04, 2023 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock