Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
U.S. job growth accelerates in March; unemployment rate falls to 6.0%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. employers hired more workers than expected in March, spurred by increased vaccinations and more pandemic relief money from the government, cementing expectations that an eco...
Apr 02, 2021 REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo/File Photo
PPD arrests man for Wed. night shooting
PEORIA, Ill. -- A 42-year-old man was taken into Peoria Police custody following a Wednesday night shooting on the city's south side that resulted in serious injury. The incident took place around 6:0...
Apr 01, 2021 Peoria Police Department
Local COVID roundup 4/1: no deaths, but close to 300 new cases
PEORIA, Ill. -- A total of 285 residents of Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties tested positive between Wednesday and Thursday for COVID-19. 164 of the new cases are Peoria residents, 95 are Tazew...
Apr 01, 2021 Midwest Communications
At Chauvin trial, Floyd girlfriend tells of their struggle with addiction
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -George Floyd's girlfriend smiled through tears as she told a jury on Thursday how they first met when he offered to pray with her, less than three years before his deadly arrest...
Apr 01, 2021 Pool via REUTERS
Four dead, 2 wounded, including suspect, in shooting near Los Angeles
ORANGE, Calif. (Reuters) -Four people were killed, one of them a child, in a shooting on Wednesday at an office building in suburban Los Angeles before the suspect, wounded in an exchange of gunfire w...
Apr 01, 2021 REUTERS/Alex Gallardo
DOJ reveals former Rep. LaHood accepted illegal contribution
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former Illinois 18th District Rep. Ray LaHood accepted money illegally while serving as U.S. Secretary of Transportation, the Department of Justice revealed on Wednesday. The DOJ sa...
Mar 31, 2021 1470 100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
Biden proposes $2 trillion "once-in-a-generation" investment in U.S. economy
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday called for a sweeping use of government power to reshape the world's largest economy and counter China's rise in a $2 trillion-plus proposal tha...
Mar 31, 2021 REUTERS/Mike Blake
Local COVID roundup 3/31: hospital admissions rise by double digits
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Tazewell County man in his 90s between Tuesday and Wednesday became the latest area resident to die from COVID-19. Meanwhile, an additional 10 people of Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodfor...
Mar 31, 2021 Midwest Communications
Semi driver ID'ed in fatal dirt unloading accident
***UPDATE*** 4/1/21 3 P.M. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the driver. He said 68-year-old Donald Foreaker of Chillicothe died of blunt force trauma in what he described as a "crush...
Mar 31, 2021 Midwest Communications
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine safe, effective on adolescents in trial, companies say
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Wednesday their COVID-19 vaccine was safe and effective and produced robust antibody responses in 12- to 15-year olds, paving the way for them to...
Mar 31, 2021 REUTERS/Marko Djurica
