Author Archives: Rick Hirschmann
Trump company, CFO plead not guilty to criminal charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump's namesake company and longtime financial chief pleaded not guilty on Thursday to criminal charges in a sweeping indictment from a probe by Manhattan's district attorn...
Rick Hirschmann Jul 01, 2021 REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Dog, cat die in Peoria fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- No humans were injured Wednesday morning in a Central Peoria fire, but two pets were killed. The blaze on N. Renwood was reported around 9:30 to the Peoria Fire Department. Thick, blac...
Rick Hirschmann Jun 30, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
House votes to create Democratic-led committee probe of U.S. Capitol attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the creation of a new Democratic-majority select committee to probe the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, a...
Rick Hirschmann Jun 30, 2021 REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Bradley not to require students, staff to be vaxed
PEORIA, Ill. -- Students and staff who plan to be on Bradley University's campus in fall 2021 will not need to be vaccinated against COVID-19. "Several factors went into this decision, including the n...
Rick Hirschmann Jun 30, 2021 Bradley University
Peoria-area chemical plant worker survives electrocution
MAPLETON, Ill. -- An employee of the Evonik chemical company survived a Tuesday morning scare. Peoria County Sheriff's Deputies got a call around 10:00 about the electrocution of a 52-year-old man. He...
Rick Hirschmann Jun 29, 2021 Cary Miller via Google Maps
College athletes one step closer to being paid
INDIANAPOLIS -- An NCAA advisory board has recommended the association lift its rules regarding student-athletes' ability to profit off their names, images, and likenesses (NIL). Should it pass, stude...
Rick Hirschmann Jun 28, 2021 MWC-LOGO-Flicker
UPDATE: Peoria Police have found elderly man
UPDATE 5:55 P.M. -- McGhee has been found and is OK, according to Peoria Police. _____________________________________________ PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Police Department has issued a missing persons...
Rick Hirschmann Jun 28, 2021 Midwest Communications
Transgender student wins as U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs bathroom appeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a major transgender rights case, leaving in place a lower court's ruling that a Virginia public school board acted unlawfully...
Rick Hirschmann Jun 28, 2021 REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Jul. ceremony set to complete Peoria war memorial
PEORIA, Ill. -- A third statue to commemorate Peoria-area veterans is scheduled to be erected. Peoria County Veteran's Memorial Committee has invited the public Jul. 3 to the county courthouse for wha...
Rick Hirschmann Jun 23, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Vice President Kamala Harris to visit U.S.-Mexico border on Friday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday for the first time since taking a lead role in immigration issues, her office said, bowing to pressu...
Rick Hirschmann Jun 23, 2021 REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst