Rich Egger
News DirectorRich has served as TSPR's News Director since July, 1998. The news department has earned walls full of reporting awards since then. Before coming to TSPR, Rich worked professionally in commercial radio news at WRMN-AM/WJKL-FM in Elgin and WJBC-AM in Bloomington. Rich has a B.A. in Communication Studies with an Emphasis on Radio, TV and Film from Northern Illinois University. In Rich's leisure time he spends way too much money on vinyl records. He also enjoys books, cross-country skiing, rooting for the Cubs and Blackhawks, and making various baked goods, including sugar frosted chocolate bombs. His future plans include getting some tacos, especially when Sandra's Authentic Mexican Truck is in town.
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A McDonough County jury found a man guilty of shooting two Macomb police officers two years ago. -
‘Americans and the Holocaust’ exhibit at Burlington library ‘an opportunity to think and to reflect’A traveling exhibit about the Holocaust is designed to take people back to the 1930s and 1940s and make them think about how they might have responded to the stories coming out of Nazi Germany. -
Democratic Congressman Eric Sorensen said he will make a $772,700 Community Project Funding request on behalf of Western Illinois University. The money would pay for upgrading safety technology and equipment at WIU. -
The Adequate and Equitable Public University Funding Formula Act stalled in the legislature this spring, but could come up for a vote in the fall veto session or during January’s lame duck session. -
Western Illinois University’s president said she’s optimistic as a new school year gets underway. -
The Macomb Park District says a settlement agreement has been reached over a private water slide that extends into a public park. -
Representatives from the U.S. EPA visited Keokuk to take a look at the cleanup of the old Elkem Carbide site , and to announce grants awarded recently for other projects in southeast Iowa. -
The Macomb Board of Education voted 6-to-0 on Monday night to part ways with Journey12, the company that produced the quarterly Flight Path magazine about the district’s students, staff, and alumni. -
Storms late last week flooded yards, streets, basements, and more. -
MDH said it is the only hospital in Illinois to receive the grant, which it called a highly competitive national grant.
