Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
Local COVID roundup 4/29: 5 deaths, 4 in 1 county
PEORIA, Ill. -- Thursday's COVID-19 report from the Peoria City/County Health Department was particularly devastating for Tazewell County, which reported four deaths over the last 24 hours from the vi...
Apr 29, 2021 Midwest Communications
PPS takes comments on Jefferson School name change
PEORIA, Ill. -- Emotions predictably ran high Wednesday night during the Peoria School District 150 Board of Education town hall meeting regarding the renaming of Thomas Jefferson Primary School. The ...
Apr 28, 2021 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
U.S. charges three Georgia men with hate crimes in death of Ahmaud Arbery
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. charged three white men in Georgia on Wednesday with federal hate crimes and the attempted kidnapping of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who died last year after they gunned...
Apr 28, 2021 Glynn County Sheriff?s Office/Handout via REUTERS
Candle sparks East Bluff blaze
PEORIA, Ill. -- All occupants of a home in the 600 block of E. Corrington escaped a Wednesday morning fire unscathed. Peoria Firefighter/Paramedics were called around 10:15 to the blaze at the two-sto...
Apr 28, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
State COVID roundup 4/28: IL hits new milestone
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois has reached the 9 million mark for coronavirus vaccines administered. The 106,173 doses given to residents between Tuesday and Wednesday were slightly above the 100,823 d...
Apr 28, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. investigators raid Giuliani's New York apartment
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal investigators on Wednesday executed a search warrant at the Manhattan apartment of Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and personal lawyer to forme...
Apr 28, 2021 REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo
Local COVID roundup 4/28: Tazewell man in 30s among deaths
PEORIA, Ill. -- Tazewell County between Tuesday and Wednesday added two deaths to its COVID-19 total, while Peoria County added one. The Tazewell deaths consisted of two men: one in his 30s, the other...
Apr 28, 2021 Midwest Communications
Bradley baseball contracts COVID
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Missouri Valley Conference has halted Bradley's scheduled series versus Indiana State because of positive COVID-19 tests within the Bradley camp. A statement released by the univer...
Apr 27, 2021 Bradley University
State COVID roundup 4/27: vax count well below avg
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The rolling seven-day daily average of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered throughout Illinois on Tuesday remained in the six digits, but a number of people far below that average...
Apr 27, 2021 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 4/27: Peoria woman in 30s among Tues. death toll
PEORIA, Ill. -- The COVID-19 case count for Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties was lower between Monday and Tuesday than usual, but the death count remained high. In Peoria County, a woman in her...
Apr 27, 2021 Midwest Communications
