Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
Murray Baker on track for Saturday
PEORIA, Ill. -- Drivers through the Peoria Metro area are in for a welcomed Halloween treat. The Murray Baker Bridge will officially reopen on Oct. 31 after being closed since March 29. Gov. J.B. Prit...
Oct 26, 2020 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Morton School District announces multiple COVID-related quarantines
MORTON, Ill. - Morton School District 709 announced on Sunday coronavirus has affected multiple grades within multiple schools within the district. All fifth and sixth grade students of Lettie Brown E...
Oct 25, 2020 Midwest Communications
Peoria schools superintendent lays out COVID testing details
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Public School District 150 Board of Education is scheduled to vote Monday night on two agenda items that, upon passage, will allow for COVID-19 testing inside district schoo...
Oct 25, 2020 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
Pence to keep up travel despite contact with infected aides
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence plans to maintain an aggressive campaign schedule this week despite an apparent outbreak of the coronavirus among his senior aides, the White House said Sat...
Oct 25, 2020 AP Photo/Steve Cannon
New US virus cases top 83,700 for 2nd day in row
BALTIMORE - A day after the U.S. set a daily record for new confirmed coronavirus infections, it came very close to doing it again. Data published by Johns Hopkins University shows that 83,718 new cas...
Oct 25, 2020 Lino Mirgeler/dpa via AP
State jumpstarts unclaimed money outreach
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- If you get a letter in coming days from the Illinois Department of Revenue, it may be because you have money waiting for you. IDOR has launched an initiative to increase participa...
Oct 24, 2020 Midwest Communications
US sets coronavirus infection record; deaths near 224,000
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The U.S. coronavirus caseload has reached record heights with more than 83,000 infections reported in a single day, the latest ominous sign of the disease's grip on the nation, as ...
Oct 24, 2020 AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File
Local COVID roundup 10/23: 3 deaths, exactly 100 new cases
PEORIA, Ill. -- Tazewell County accounted for all three COVID-related deaths reported Friday by the Peoria City/County Health Department. One death was to a long-term care facility resident, who was a...
Oct 23, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump: Sudan to join UAE, Bahrain in recognizing Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump announced Friday that Sudan will start to normalize ties with Israel, making it the third Arab state to do so as part of U.S.-brokered deals in the run-up to E...
Oct 23, 2020 AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Local COVID roundup 10/22: one new death, triple digit case count
PEORIA, Ill. -- Health officials say all eleven regions of Illinois are showing over six days of continued positivity rates at or above 8% for COVID-19. Region 2, which includes the tri-county area, h...
Oct 22, 2020 Midwest Communications
