Category Archives: Local News
State COVID roundup 11/23: another sizable positivity rate drop
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois's Sunday-Monday COVID-19 reporting period saw 8,322 people receive positive test results. 47 people across the state during that time were reported to have died. The Illi...
Rick Hirschmann Nov 23, 2020 Midwest Communications
Hy-Vee brings back reserved shopping hour
WEST DES MOINES, IA - Beginning Monday, Nov. 23, Hy-Vee reinstated its reserved shopping hour for customers deemed high risk. This is in response to the recent increase in COVID-19 cases through the M...
Julia Bradley Nov 23, 2020
Biden builds out national security picks with Blinken, Kerry
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Joe Biden is building out his administration with several key picks for national security and foreign policy roles. John Kerry, a former secretary of state, will lead...
Julia Bradley Nov 23, 2020 FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2020, file photo former Secretary of State John Kerry smiles while speaking at a campaign stop to support Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden at the Biden for President Fort Dodge Office in Fort Dodge, Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Victim of Peoria crash identified
PEORIA, Ill. -- The victim of a two-vehicle crash Friday morning has been identified as 34-year-old Aries Terrell of Peoria. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said Terrell was pronounced dead at 11:...
Julia Bradley Nov 23, 2020 Midwest Communications
US tells GM to recall nearly 6M trucks with Takata inflators
DETROIT (AP) - The U.S. is making General Motors recall and repair nearly 6 million big pickup trucks and SUVs equipped with potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators. The move announced Monday b...
Julia Bradley Nov 23, 2020 FILE - This Friday, May 16, 2014, file photo, shows the General Motors logo at the company's world headquarters in Detroit. The U.S. is making General Motors recall and repair nearly 6 million big pickup trucks and SUVs equipped with potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators. The move announced Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will cost the automaker an estimated $1.2 billion. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Trump appeals rejection of effort to block Pennsylvania vote
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - President Donald Trump is appealing a federal judge's dismissal of his campaign's effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania. The president and other plaintiffs ...
Julia Bradley Nov 23, 2020 FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 20, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump listens during an event in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. A federal judge in Pennsylvania says he won’t stop officials from certifying election results that show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes. U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020 turned down the request by President Donald Trump’s campaign as it sought the state’s 20 electoral votes. Those votes still would not have been enough on their own to hand Trump a second term. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
AstraZeneca: COVID-19 vaccine 'highly effective' prevention
LONDON (AP) - AstraZeneca says late stage trials of its COVID-19 vaccine developed with Oxford University were "highly effective'' in preventing disease. The results are based on interim analysis of t...
Julia Bradley Nov 23, 2020 FILE - In this Saturday, July 18, 2020 file photo a general view of AstraZeneca offices and the corporate logo in Cambridge, England. AstraZeneca says late-stage trials of its COVID-19 vaccine were "highly effective'' in preventing disease. A vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford prevented 70% of people from developing the coronavirus in late-stage trials, the team reported Monday Nov. 23, 2020.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
State COVID roundup 11/22: over 10,000 new cases statewide
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Public Health reported an additional 10,012 new and probable cases of COVID-19, including 76 additional deaths on Sunday. As of Saturday night, 6,072 peo...
Julia Bradley Nov 23, 2020 Midwest Communications
Biden expected to nominate Blinken as secretary of state
WASHINGTON (AP) - A longtime national security aide to President-elect Joe Biden is expected to become Biden's nominee for secretary of state. Multiple people familiar with the Biden team's planning t...
Julia Bradley Nov 23, 2020 FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, file photo, Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria. Blinken is the leading contender to become President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of state, according to multiple people familiar with the Biden team's planning. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
COVID-19 vaccine could arrive by end of year
WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the U.S. effort to produce a coronavirus vaccine says the first immunizations could happen on Dec. 12. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee is set to meet De...
Rick Hirschmann Nov 22, 2020 Midwest Communications