Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
Peoria airport touts record-setting numbers
PEORIA, Ill. -- 2019 could end up being a banner year for the General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport. June saw 65,919 passengers go through the airport during that month, which was a re...
Sep 17, 2019 AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin
Tazewell County, local healthcare system teaming up for screenings
PEORIA, Ill. -- With October's recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Tazewell County Health Department and UnityPoint Health announced Monday there will be a day in October of free mammogr...
Sep 16, 2019 (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Fall hazardous waste collection sites announced in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is announcing its fall schedule for collecting household hazardous waste. Residents may take leftover household products containin...
Sep 16, 2019 (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
State ag department taking part in national safety week
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- National Farm Safety and Health Week kicked off Monday in a sign harvest season is near. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker proclaimed the week statewide with the theme "Shift Farm Saf...
Sep 16, 2019 AP Photo/Michael Probst
Lawyers: Hastert trying to take back sexual-abuse admissions
CHICAGO (AP) - A filing in a civil case accuses former House Speaker Dennis Hastert of seeking to retract key admissions he made years ago in his federal criminal case that he'd sexually abused a form...
Sep 12, 2019 AP Photo/Dennis Cook
Probe: Chicago schools handling of sex abuse claims 'tragic'
CHICAGO (AP) - A federal investigation has found Chicago Public Schools' handling of sexual abuse complaints is "tragic and inexcusable" and is requiring a major overhaul. The Department of Education'...
Sep 12, 2019
Standoff at Peoria home ends with two arrests
PEORIA, Ill. -- A standoff outside a home Wednesday afternoon on the 1800 block of West Kettelle resulted in two arrests, including the arrest of a man who allegedly held a female inside the home agai...
Sep 11, 2019 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Illinois sues pharmaceutical companies over opioid crisis
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has filed a lawsuit against several pharmaceutical companies, including Johnson & Johnson, alleging they carried out "unfair and deceptive" mar...
Sep 11, 2019 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Wife of alderman to be chief justice on Illinois high court
CHICAGO (AP) - The wife of a powerful Chicago alderman facing federal corruption allegations will become the Illinois Supreme Court's next chief justice. The state's highest court selected Anne Burke ...
Sep 11, 2019 Midwest Communications
Illinois governor commemorates 9/11
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- As September 11th remembrances took place Wednesday across the country, that was also the case in Illinois. Governor J.B. Pritzker put out a proclamation announcing Wednesday as P...
Sep 11, 2019
