Author Archives: Ed Hammond
Peoria police release results of latest anti-violence initiative
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria has released a third update of his department's anti-violence initiative. Echevarria, in a news release, said Peoria police, along with the Illinois ...
Ed Hammond Jan 23, 2022 MWC-Peoria Police Media Release
"Bat Out of Hell" singer Meat Loaf dies at age 74
LONDON (Reuters) - Meat Loaf, the U.S. rock star whose debut "Bat Out of Hell" became one of the best-selling albums of all time, has died aged 74. Delivering epic anthems about love, lust and motorcy...
Ed Hammond Jan 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: REUTERS/Bobby Yip (HONG KONG)
FBI storms Texas synagogue to release hostages, gunman dead
UPDATE: 5 a.m. 1/17: COLLEYVILLE, Texas -- U.S. and British authorities continue to investigate the weekend standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended with an armed British national dead and a rabbi cre...
Ed Hammond Jan 16, 2022 REUTERS/Shelby Tauber
Djokovic flies out of Australia after losing court appeal
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Tennis superstar Novak Djokovic boarded a plane to leave Australia on Sunday after the Federal Court upheld a government decision to cancel his visa on the grounds that his decis...
Ed Hammond Jan 16, 2022 REUTERS/Loren Elliott
JOLT Harm Reduction moves to new location
PEORIA, Ill. - (25 News) - A local organization - aimed at healing communities - is expanding into a bigger, better building. JOLT Harm Reduction said goodbye to its old building on Northeast Adams St...
Ed Hammond Jan 16, 2022
Winter break extended for Peoria Public Schools
PEORIA, Ill. - A surge in COVID-19 cases locally and across the nation has resulted in a schedule change for Peoria Public Schools. The school district announced Sunday the current winter break will b...
Ed Hammond Jan 02, 2022 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Winter Storm leaves behind icy roads, colder weather
PEORIA, Ill. - A New Year's Day winter storm resulted in as much as 5 inches of snow in some areas of Central Illinois and left behind snow packed and icy roads and the promise of colder weather ahead...
Ed Hammond Jan 02, 2022 1470-100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley (file)
Snow removal efforts continue, collision alert issued
UPDATED 1/4/22 Peoria County officials say the Collision Alert was lifted as of 11:08 a.m. Tuesday, January 4. ---------------------------- Peoria, Ill. - Peoria County has issued a traffic collision ...
Ed Hammond Jan 02, 2022 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
One person seriously injured in East Bluff house fire
UPDATE - PEORIA, Ill. -Four people escaped a Peoria house fire, but one of them was injured seriously. Firefighters arrived at 1900 N. Dechman Ave. at 9:39 a.m. Sunday to see fire coming from a second...
Ed Hammond Dec 26, 2021 1470 and 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
One person treated after Christmas morning fire
PEORIA, Ill. - Fire in an apartment sent one person to a local hospital Christmas morning. Firefighters found smoke coming from the first and second floors of an apartment house at 2730 W. Trewyn Ave....
Ed Hammond Dec 26, 2021 Midwest Communications
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