Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
Book: Trump said of virus, 'I wanted to always play it down'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump talked privately about the severity of the coronavirus threat even as he was telling the nation the virus was no worse than the seasonal flu and insisting the ...
Sep 09, 2020 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Local COVID roundup 9/9: nursing home resident dies
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Woodford County man in his 80s was reported Wednesday as the most recent area resident to die while sick with COVID-19. The man, according to Peoria City/County Health Department, li...
Sep 09, 2020 Midwest Communications
Possible protection tax talks tabled
PEORIA, Ill. -- Early discussions began Tuesday night among Peoria City Council members regarding placing a property tax increase on February's ballot that would provide for fire and police protection...
Sep 08, 2020 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Bradley University goes all-remote for two weeks
PEORIA, Ill. - Bradley University students will be quarantining for two weeks and all classes will be held virtually. President Steve Standifird sent out an e-mail Tuesday afternoon saying there have ...
Sep 08, 2020
State COVID roundup 9/4: data backlog inflates numbers
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A backlog of test reporting caused Friday's statewide COVID-19 numbers to skew highly. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 5,368 new cases of coronavirus. Labs acros...
Sep 04, 2020 Midwest Communications
August U.S. job numbers released
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. unemployment dropped sharply in August from 10.2% to a still-high 8.4%, with about half the 22 million jobs lost to the coronavirus outbreak recovered so far, the government sai...
Sep 04, 2020 Midwest Communications
August jobs report likely to point to slight recovery
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States keeps regaining more of the jobs that vanished when the viral pandemic flattened the economy early this spring. Yet so deep were the layoffs that began in March tha...
Sep 04, 2020 AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
State COVID roundup 9/3: over 40k tested, positive rate down
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The rolling seven-day statewide positivity rate for COVID-19 has ticked slightly downwards as the Illinois Department of Public Health reported on Thursday 1,360 new cases of the ...
Sep 03, 2020 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 9/3: Tazewell Co. sees 11th death
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Tazewell County woman in her 80s has passed away from COVID-19. The octogenarian did not reside in a long-term care facility, said the Peoria City/County Health Department. The woman...
Sep 03, 2020 Midwest Communications
CDC visits Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria-area leaders have been meeting this week with representatives of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC spent Wednesday conducting COVID-19 seminars with Peoria...
Sep 03, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
