Author Archives: Ed Hammond
Hyundai, Trump announce $21 billion US investment, new steel plant
WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group announced a $21 billion investment in the United States with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday. The investment includes...
Mar 24, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Hyundai logo is seen during Munich Auto Show, IAA Mobility 2021 in Munich, Germany, September 8, 2021. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo
Republicans win control of US Senate, make gains in House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate with victories in West Virginia and Ohio on Tuesday, ensuring Donald Trump's party will control at least one chamber of Congress next y...
Nov 06, 2024 Dustin Ritchie, 34, votes with his daughter in the U.S. presidential election on Election Day at the Douglas County Central Assembly of God polling location in Superior, Wisconsin, U.S., November 5, 2024. REUTERS/Erica Dischino
Fire damages home in Peoria Heights
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Smoking materials is listed as the cause of a fire at a Peoria Heights residence. Firefighters were dispatched to the house in the 5000 block of N. Best Street at 6:18 a.m. Satu...
Oct 12, 2024 Midwest Communications
'Paradise is still paradise' - Floridians vow to rebuild after two hurricanes
SIESTA KEY, Florida (Reuters) - Chris Fiore was supposed to be accepting delivery of new household appliances and furniture, replacing items that were swamped by Hurricane Helene just a few weeks ago....
Oct 12, 2024 A drone view shows a car driving through a flooded street after Hurricane Milton made landfall in South Daytona, Florida, U.S., October 11, 2024. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo
10-year-old shooting victim remembered
PEORIA, Ill. - Family, classmates, teachers, mentors, and the community gathered to remember young Torres Lamar Johnson. The ten-year-old boy was fatally shot Sept. 29 inside of Cityscape Apartments o...
Oct 12, 2024 Photo: 25 News
Illinois State University purchasing building from Country Financial
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Illinois State University has agreed to spend $17.5 million purchasing the old General Electric Road building in Bloomington from insurance company Country Financial. 25 News repor...
Oct 12, 2024 Photo: 25 News
Trump ratchets up rhetoric, calls for death penalty for migrants who kill Americans
AURORA, Colorado (Reuters) - Donald Trump portrayed migrants as dangerous criminals during a rally in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday, calling for the death penalty for migrants who kill U.S. citizens as ...
Oct 12, 2024 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a rally at Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center in Aurora, Colorado, U.S., October 11, 2024. REUTERS/Isaiah J. Downing
Boeing to cut 17,000 jobs, delay first 777X jet as strike hits finances
(Reuters) - Boeing will cut 17,000 jobs -- 10% of its global workforce -- delay first deliveries of its 777X jet by a year and record $5 billion in losses in the third quarter, as the U.S. planemaker ...
Oct 12, 2024 Boeing workers Maria Hamshaw and Tim Mattingly, who are siblings, hold inflatable airplanes on a picket line near the entrance to a Boeing production facility in Renton, Washington, U.S. October 11, 2024. REUTERS/David Ryder
Jury selection in Madigan trial stretches into second week
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - The jury that will determine the fate of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is nearly complete after three slow days of jury selection this week. But in ad...
Oct 12, 2024 Former Democratic state House Speaker Michael Madigan is pictured leaving the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in January. Jury selection for his federal corruption trial will continue next week. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Trump appears before large crowd at site of assassination attempt in Pennsylvania
BUTLER, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday returned to the rural Pennsylvania site where he was nearly assassinated, rallying a large crowd in the crit...
Oct 05, 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania, October 5, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
