Author Archives: Ed Hammond
"The View" co-host to be MLK luncheon speaker
PEORIA, Ill. - Sunny Hostin, co-host on ABC-TV's "The View" will be the featured speaker during the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. luncheon. Public Employees for Community Concerns says the event will tak...
May 03, 2025 Public Employees for Community Concerns
Buffett to step down as Berkshire CEO after 60 years at helm
OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Warren Buffett is ending his career as perhaps the world's most famous and revered investor, saying he will step down as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of...
May 03, 2025 REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Sovereignty wins 151st Kentucky Derby
(Reuters) - Sovereignty won the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky, in a thrilling fight to the finish line on Saturday to capture the first leg of U.S. thoroughbred racing's ...
May 03, 2025 May 3, 2025; Louisville, KY, USA; Junior Alvarado aboard Sovereignty wins the 151st Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 3, 2025. Mandatory Credit: Michael Clevenger/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
Jaguar Land Rover restarts car exports to the US, London's Times reports
(Reuters) - Jaguar Land Rover has restarted shipments of vehicles to the United States after pausing them in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, London's Times newspaper reported on Sat...
May 03, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Logos of Jaguar and Land-Rover are seen outside a car dealer in Brussels, Belgium May 28, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo
City of Peoria seeking proposals to redevelop historic building
PEORIA, Ill. - The City of Peoria is looking for proposals from developers seeking to breathe new life into a historic downtown building. The City began accepting applications April 30 from prospectiv...
May 03, 2025 25 News
Peoria Fire Department division chief retires
PEORIA, Ill. - Lorie Baxter is hanging up her gear within the Peoria Fire Department after 27 years. Baxter is Division Chief of Operations and is the first woman to be selected to the executive board...
May 03, 2025 25 News
UPDATE: ISUPD releases photo of person of interest in Sunday night shooting
Updated 4/28 12 p.m. NORMAL, Ill. - The Illinois State University Police Department is asking for the public's help in identifying a person of interest in the shots fired incident Sunday, at approxima...
Apr 27, 2025 Midwest Communications
At least nine killed in Vancouver after vehicle plows into Filipino festival
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - At least nine people were killed when a man drove through a crowd at a Filipino community festival in the western Canadian city of Vancouver on Saturday evening, police said in a...
Apr 27, 2025 The suspect vehicle is seen with the driver's door open, as bodies of victims lie covered on the ground, after it drove into a crowd at a Lapu Lapu day block party, in which police say multiple people were killed and injured, in Vancouver, Canada April 27, 2025. REUTERS/Chris Helgren
Round four of old McClugage Bridge demolition set this week
PEORIA, Ill - The next demolition event on the old McClugage Bridge span is scheduled for Wednesday. This will be the fourth of eight planned explosive events and will be the biggest of those schedule...
Apr 27, 2025 (Illinois Department of Transportation)
I-74 lane reductions planned this week
PEORIA, Ill - Watch for traffic delays on the Murray Baker Bridge, I-74, during the next two weeks. Message boards have been warning of "heavy delays" beginning Monday. It's because work on expansion ...
Apr 27, 2025 Midwest Communications
