Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
Local COVID roundup 10/1: woman in her 40s succumbs
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria County woman in her 40s became the latest area casualty of coronavirus, after passing away during the Wednesday-Thursday reporting period. The woman did not live in a long-ter...
Oct 01, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 10/1: 65k tested
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A plethora of tests administered highlight Thursday's COVID-19 report from the Illinois Department of Public Health. IDPH said 65,615 specimens were taken between Wednesday and Th...
Oct 01, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 9/30: new cases over 2k
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Department of Public Health reported 2,273 new cases of COVID-19 throughout the state. Additionally, the Tuesday-Wednesday reporting period saw 35 additional deaths. The ...
Sep 30, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 9/30: Peoria, Tazewell see deaths
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria and Tazewell Counties each experienced a COVID-19-related death in the Tuesday-Wednesday reporting period. Both deaths involved people in their 80s. The Peoria death was of a ma...
Sep 30, 2020 Midwest Communications
Debate commission says it will make changes to format
NEW YORK (AP) - The presidential debate commission says it will soon adopt changes to its format to avoid a repeat of the disjointed first meeting between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden...
Sep 30, 2020 Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP
Disney to lay off 28,000 at its parks in California, Florida
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Squeezed by limits on attendance at its theme parks and other restrictions due to the pandemic, The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it planned to lay off 28,000 workers in its parks ...
Sep 29, 2020 Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel
Local COVID roundup 9/29: tri-county reaches 80 deaths
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man who had underlying conditions contracted COVID-19 and passed away between Monday and Tuesday, according to the Peoria City/County Health Department. The man lived in Tazewell Cou...
Sep 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 9/29: rolling positive % gets better
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Department of Public Health reported 1,362 COVID-19 tests between Monday and Tuesday came back positive throughout Illinois. In that time, 23 deaths were reported. 45,624...
Sep 29, 2020 Midwest Communications
Pekin approves participation in $250M state COVID reimbursement program
PEKIN, Ill. -- The City of Pekin voted Monday night to take advantage of an allotment of $1.4 million in state coronavirus relief funds. The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity in...
Sep 28, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Officer charged in Breonna Taylor case pleads not guilty
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The lone Kentucky detective facing charges related to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor pleaded not guilty Monday. Brett Hankison's plea comes five days after a grand jury in...
Sep 28, 2020 AP Photo/Darron Cummings
