Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
State COVID roundup 8/24: lower test numbers
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Monday snapped a five-day streak of over 50,000 COVID-19 tests performed throughout the state, attributable partially to typically slower activity on Sundays. The Illinois Departm...
Aug 24, 2020 Midwest Communications
IVC records first known COVID case
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - Illinois Valley Central has announced its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Principal Kenton Bergman e-mailed parents and students early on Monday afternoon to inform them of the s...
Aug 24, 2020 Midwest Communications
GOP delegates open convention to renominate Trump for 2020
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Republicans gathered Monday to formally nominate President Donald Trump for reelection at a scaled-down convention kickoff in Charlotte that begins a weeklong effort to convince...
Aug 24, 2020
MTHS opts for all remote learning
***UPDATE*** MTHS will be going to all-remote learning until Sept. 8, pending board of education approval. The following e-mail was sent Monday afternoon from Superintendent Sean O'Laughlin to distric...
Aug 23, 2020 Midwest Communications
Marco becomes hurricane headed for US Gulf Coast
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Marco became a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico Sunday on a path toward the Louisiana coast as Tropical Storm Laura killed at least seven people in the Dominican Republic...
Aug 23, 2020 People line up to enter retail chain Costco to buy provisions in New Orleans, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, in advance of Hurricane Marco, expected to make landfall on the Southern Louisiana coast. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
State COVID roundup 8/23: 50k the new norm
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Sunday marked five straight days of 50,000-plus COVID-19 tests administered across the state of Illinois. The Illinois Department of Public Health said 54,351 people took part in ...
Aug 23, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
World hits 800,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths
NEW YORK - The world hit a grim coronavirus milestone Saturday with 800,000 confirmed deaths and close to 23 million confirmed cases. That's according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. Gove...
Aug 22, 2020 Midwest Communications
Corpse found along river, Tazewell Co. authorities ID body
***UPDATE*** Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley has identified the body as that of 42-year-old Phillip Winger. Pekin Police and Illinois State Police had issued an Endangered Missing Person Adviso...
Aug 22, 2020
Local COVID roundup 8/21: lower increase than week's average
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties combined between Thursday and Friday for 70 new cases of COVID-19. Peoria County accounted for the largest increase, 32, Tazewell had 28 and Woo...
Aug 21, 2020 Midwest Communications
BU Prez says no tuition cuts; students sound off
PEORIA, Ill. -- Bradley President Stephen Standifird sent out an e-mail Thursday night to students, in which he addressed concerns over tuition and fees, with some classes set only to be offered onlin...
Aug 21, 2020
