Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows has been diagnosed with the coronavirus as the nation sets daily records for confirmed cases for the pandemic. Two senior adminis...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois saw over 10,000 cases of COVID-19 between Thursday and Friday to go along with 49 deaths. 10,376 people during that time received positive test results. 98,401 COVID-19 t...

PEORIA, Ill. -- Four people died and 325 people tested positive between Thursday and Friday for COVID-19 throughout the Peoria-Tazewell-Woodford tri-county. The deaths in Peoria County were of two fem...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's Thursday night speech from the White House Briefing Room left many talking heads and the voting public at large wondering if the President would take legal actio...

***UPDATE*** Harwood has identified the person shot as 23-year-old Treek Booker-Lawson. She sustained multiple gunshot wounds to her body, Harwood said. The coroner was not releasing any details about...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Joe Biden gained ground in tight contests Thursday in key battleground states - and then inched ahead Friday in Georgia. With his pathway to reelection appearing to shrink, ...

The Associated Press has not declared a winner in the presidential race, with a number of battleground states still too early to call. But President Donald Trump is renewing his claims that Democrats ...

WASHINGTON -- United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper was planning Thursday to resign, according to sources. Part of the reason he is planning to leave his post, the sources said, is because he ...

EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- The 2020 East Peoria Festival of Lights has been scheduled, albeit with provisions for COVID-19. The event is set for Nov. 21 at 5:45 P.M. The two-mile route will start at the int...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- 10,000 was the number on Thursday to keep in mind, as Illinois hit one dubious COVID-19 milestone and nearly hit another. The Illinois Department of Public Health said with 97 dea...