Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois's Sunday-Monday COVID-19 reporting period saw 8,322 people receive positive test results. 47 people across the state during that time were reported to have died. The Illi...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the U.S. effort to produce a coronavirus vaccine says the first immunizations could happen on Dec. 12. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee is set to meet De...

EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- East Peoria's annual Festival of Lights kicked off on Saturday night with the annual Parade of Lights. 30 floats drove by a substantial crowd of onlookers, brightening the streets...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Department of Public Health reported 11,891 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, including 127 more deaths, in the 24-hour reporting period between Friday and Sa...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Joe Biden is against the death penalty and will work to end its use, his spokesman said Saturday, as the Justice Department scheduled three more federal executions be...

MORTON, Ill. -- COVID-19 numbers went down from the week of Nov. 13 to the week of Nov. 20 at Morton School District 709. This decrease continued the trend the district has seen the entire month of No...

PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were continuing an investigation Saturday morning into a late Friday night shooting in the East Bluff. Police were called around 10:40 to the 900 block of E. Republic fol...

PEORIA, Ill. -- 11 area residents died between Thursday and Friday from COVID-19 complications. Woodford County experienced the deaths of two Apostolic Christian residents. One was a male in his 90s a...

EAST MOLINE, Ill. -- Esther Joy King, Republican challenger for the 17th District Congresssional seat, has officially conceded the race to Rep. Cheri Bustos. "The 2020 election has been like no other ...

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - A 17-year-old from Illinois who is charged with killing two people during a protest in Wisconsin and whose case has become a rallying cry for some conservatives posted $2 million ...