Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
Back to school, back to sports: IHSA outlines basketball, football season guidelines
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- With most of Illinois back at Phase Four of Restore Illinois, the Illinois High School Association was given the green light by the Illinois Department of Public Health to start hol...
Jan 27, 2021 Photo Courtesy -- IHSA.org
Local COVID roundup 1/26: 2 Peoria County women die
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department reported two Peoria County deaths occurred between Monday and Tuesday related to COVID-19. A woman in her 70s with underlying conditions passed...
Jan 26, 2021 Midwest Communications
Biden administration to purchase millions more vaccine doses to curb virus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration will purchase 200 million more coronavirus vaccines and funnel more to states now, in a bid to deliver on the U.S. president's promise to curb the pande...
Jan 26, 2021 REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Less than 1% of Peoria staff, students test COVID positive during first week back
PEORIA, Ill. -- Over 9,500 Peoria Public Schools students returned last week to in-person learning, and a good number of them were given COVID-19 tests during their first week back. The numbers were s...
Jan 25, 2021 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
House Democrats who will prosecute Trump deliver impeachment charge to Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday delivered to the Senate a charge accusing former President Donald Trump with inciting insurrection in a speech to his supporters befo...
Jan 25, 2021 REUTERS/Leah Millis
Citing COVID restrictions, GP Farm Show canceled
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Greater Peoria Farm Show had been scheduled for Dec. 1-3, 2020, but then was pushed back to March 9-11, 2021, with hopes COVID-19 restrictions would ease up. The show on Monday was...
Jan 25, 2021
Local COVID roundup 1/22: slight setback
PEORIA, Ill. -- Region Two of Illinois has been looking forward to a return in the near future to phase four of Restore Illinois from tier three COVID-19 mitigation, but those plans on Friday encounte...
Jan 22, 2021 Midwest Communications
'Pride:' Peoria-area Indian leaders sound off on Harris swearing-in
PEORIA, Ill. -- Along with Wednesday's inauguration of Joe Biden as President of the United States came an historic numbers game, of sorts. Biden became the 46th person and the second of Catholic fait...
Jan 20, 2021 Midwest Communications
Biden takes sweeping Day One action on energy, climate, immigration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday began signing 15 executive actions addressing the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and racial inequality, and undoing some policies put...
Jan 20, 2021 REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Local COVID roundup 1/20: hospital bed capacity grows again
PEORIA, Ill. -- A combined nine residents of Peoria and Tazewell Counties died between Tuesday and Wednesday from COVID-19 complications. Tazewell reported the deaths of a man in his 60s, one in his 7...
Jan 20, 2021 Midwest Communications
