Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann

PEORIA, Ill. -- As the Greater Peoria Mass Transit District efforts to keep operations running smoothly through the COVID-19 crisis, the service has received a major financial boost from the Federal T...

PEORIA, Ill. -- With plasma in high demand as science fervently seeks to find a cure or vaccine for COVID-19, donation locations are starting to sprout all over the world. Blood banks in the Peoria ar...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, the highest rate since the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on record. The figures are stark e...

PEORIA, Ill. -- Longtime Peoria developer Ray Becker has died. The former construction company owner was in his late 80s and had reportedly been in poor physical health. Among Becker's accomplishments...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly 3.2 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as the business shutdowns caused by the viral outbreak deepened the worst U.S. economic catastrophe in...

***UPDATED*** The lawsuit RC Outfitters Owner and Operator Adam White has filed against Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been pushed back at least another week. Peoria County Judge Derek Asbury told both partie...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A set of detailed documents created by the nation's top disease investigators meant to give step-by-step advice to local leaders deciding when and how to reopen public places ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The economic catastrophe caused by the viral outbreak likely sent the U.S. unemployment rate in April to its highest level since the Great Depression and caused a record-shattering l...

PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department on Wednesday made some corrections to data given on Tuesday. Health Administrator Monica Hendrickson said a woman in her 90s whose death was re...