Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
State COVID roundup 6/9: hospital beds in use remain under 800
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A total of 408 people throughout Illinois between Tuesday and Wednesday tested positive for COVID-19, while 23 died from it. 68% of the state's adults have received at least one d...
Jun 09, 2021 Midwest Communications
Arrest made in murder of longtime physician ID'ed as victim of 1st Peoria homicide of 2021
***UPDATE*** 6/9/21 6:45 P.M. A man has been arrested in connection with the homicide. 54-year-old Robert Ely was nabbed Wednesday in St. Louis on a first-degree murder charge. Ely's bond was set at $...
Jun 09, 2021 Midwest Communications
TC Energy scraps KXL project after President Biden revokes key permit
A $9 billion oil pipeline that became a symbol of the rising political clout of climate change advocates and a flash point in U.S.-Canada relations was officially canceled on Wednesday. Keystone XL, w...
Jun 09, 2021 REUTERS/Todd Korol
O'Brien Steel deals with Wed. A.M. blaze
PEORIA, Ill. -- An exhaust hopper was the source of a Wednesday morning fire at O'Brien Steel. Peoria Firefighter/Paramedics responded just before 11 to the business at 1700 NE Adams. The fire, which ...
Jun 09, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Local COVID roundup 6/9: 24-hour death count high, new cases dwindle
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria and Woodford Counties between Tuesday and Wednesday lost two residents, apiece, to COVID-19 complications. In Peoria, a woman in her 60s and a man in his 80s died. Both Woodford...
Jun 09, 2021 Midwest Communications
Biden drops Trump attempt to ban TikTok, WeChat; orders new review
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Wednesday withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok, and ordered a Commerce Department review o...
Jun 09, 2021 REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
PPD nabs suspected murderer of missing man
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man was taken Tuesday into Peoria Police custody on two counts related to murder of a man who'd been missing since early March. 32-year-old Gabriel Cook was reported to the Peoria Co...
Jun 08, 2021 Midwest Communications
Biden shifts infrastructure talks to new bipartisan Senate group
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday broke off talks on an infrastructure bill with a key Republican, instead reaching out to a bipartisan group, after one-on-one talks with Senator S...
Jun 08, 2021 REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Peoria Council member suggests mental facility project
PEORIA, Ill. -- After the Peoria County Board announced last April it would be closing long-term care facility Heddington Oaks, November General Election voters gave approval to sell the property. How...
Jun 08, 2021 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 6/8: Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford each record 1 death
PEORIA, Ill. -- Each of the three counties comprising the Peoria City/County Health Department's reporting area between Monday and Tuesday recorded a COVID-19-related death. In Peoria County, a woman ...
Jun 08, 2021 Midwest Communications
