Category Archives: Local News
Man stabbed overnight outside Peoria bar
PEORIA, Ill. -- One person was transported to a local hospital early Wednesday morning after being stabbed in the neck outside a bar in the 600 block of Main Street in Peoria. Public Information Offic...
Julia Bradley Oct 28, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Peoria City Council to pursue asking voters if they'd pay extra property tax
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria City Council voted 7-4 on Tuesday night to direct the city's legal team and City Manager Patrick Urich to return to the council in future meetings with possible referendum quest...
Rick Hirschmann Oct 27, 2020 Jeremy Scott/WMBD
Winter sports guidelines announced; high school basketball a no-go
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- With four regions of the state already in mitigation mode and a fifth, Region 11, set to join that group as of Oct. 30, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public He...
Rick Hirschmann Oct 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup: an even 4K
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Exactly 4,000 new cases of COVID-19 were detected throughout Illinois between Monday and Tuesday. 46 deaths were announced by the Illinois Department of Health during that time, i...
Rick Hirschmann Oct 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 10/27: hospitalizations remain in 80s
PEORIA, Ill. -- Woodford County's COVID-19 death totals increased Tuesday by two in Peoria City/County Health Department's tri-county update. That was because a woman in her 80s who lived at Heritage ...
Rick Hirschmann Oct 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
Barrett sworn in at court as issues important to Trump await
WASHINGTON (AP) - Amy Coney Barrett has been formally sworn in as the Supreme Court's ninth justice. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath Tuesday morning at the court. Barrett's first vote...
Julia Bradley Oct 27, 2020 President Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett stand on the Blue Room Balcony after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the Constitutional Oath to her on the South Lawn of the White House White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. Barrett was confirmed to be a Supreme Court justice by the Senate earlier in the evening. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Caterpillar, Inc. releases Q3 figures
DEERFIELD, Ill. - Caterpillar, Inc. saw a 23% decline in sales and revenue from the third quarter of 2020 compared to the same time period of 2019, numbers released Tuesday show. The company took in $...
Julia Bradley Oct 27, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Additional quarantines at Morton Dist. 709 Schools
MORTON, Ill. - More students at Morton District 709 are being quarantined after another positive case of COVID-19. District officials say a teacher at Ward Grundy Elementary School tested positive for...
Julia Bradley Oct 27, 2020
Peoria Public Schools Board approves COVID testing policy
PEORIA, Ill. -- With students returning to Peoria Public Schools in phases, the Board of Education Monday night approved the policy for testing students. Thanks to a $200,000 gift from the Gilmore Fou...
Dalton Kemper Oct 26, 2020 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Pritzker: Testing is one of the best tools in fighting COVID-19
PEORIA, Ill. -- Illinois' Region 2, which includes the tri-county area, is performing better than any of the state's 11 regions, in terms of positivity rates and hospitalizations due to COVID-19. "But...
Julia Bradley Oct 26, 2020