Author Archives: Ed Hammond
Record $11.6-million raised during St. Jude Telethon
PEORIA, Ill. - The 47th annual St. Jude Telethon on WEEK-TV has raised a record amount of money for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The telethon signed off late Saturday night with $11,659,...
Jul 21, 2024 Photo: 25 News via Facebook
"Person of interest" in custody in Peoria shooting investigation
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria police are investigating an alleged shooting incident in South Peoria. One man with an apparent gunshot wound was located by officers as they responded to the area of Millman and...
Jul 21, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Trump mocks Democrats, insults Pelosi, in first campaign rally since assassination attempt
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Reuters) -Donald Trump held his first campaign rally on Saturday since he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt one week ago, mocking Democrats and comparing former Democratic...
Jul 20, 2024 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump wears a flesh-colored bandage on his ear as he holds a campaign rally for the first time with his running mate, Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. July 20, 2024. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Canton girl reported missing found safe
CANTON, Ill. - A two-year-old Canton girl has been found safe, nearly ten hours after she was reported missing. Canton Police Chief Mike Eveland says Chloe Russell was found in an upstairs bedroom of ...
Jul 20, 2024 25 News
Trump to hold first campaign rally after assassination attempt
GRAND RAPIDS (Reuters) - Donald Trump will hold his first campaign rally on Saturday since he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt one week ago and fresh from his nominating convention where his ...
Jul 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump is joined on stage by wife Melania and other relatives after he finished giving his acceptance speech on Day 4 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 18, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Sheila Jackson Lee, strong Democratic voice in U.S. Congress, has died, family says
(Reuters) -U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a strong progressive voice in the Democratic Party who was outspoken on African-American and women's rights, has died, her family posted on X late Fr...
Jul 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. June 8, 2022. Andrew Harnik/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Landlord's attorney refutes allegations outlined in federal civil right suit
PEORIA, Ill. - The attorney for a Washington landlord named in a federal civil rights lawsuit claims the allegations against his client are - in his word - "bogus." The lawsuit, filed in federal court...
Jul 20, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Alleged business burglary nets two arrests
PEORIA, Ill. - Police responding to a reported burglary in South Peoria arrested two people. Peoria police spokesperson Simone Roth said the suspects, a male and female, attempted to run from officers...
Jul 20, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Local reaction to CrowdStrike computer outage: "Somebody dropped the ball"
PEORIA, Ill. - It could be weeks before the exact reasoning behind a global computer system outage is known, but now fixes are being put into place. Banks, businesses, airlines, hospitals and airlines...
Jul 19, 2024 Travelers wait for their flights near monitors displaying blue error screens, also known as the "Blue Screen of Death" inside Terminal C in Newark International Airport, after United Airlines and other airlines grounded flights due to a worldwide tech outage caused by an update to Crowdstrike's "Falcon Sensor" software which crashed Microsoft Windows systems, in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., July 19, 2024. REUTERS/Bing Guan
McIlroy, Woods, DeChambeau miss British Open cut
TROON, Scotland (Reuters) - World number two Rory McIlroy and three-times winner Tiger Woods led a long list of former champions who missed the British Open cut after a windswept second round at Royal...
Jul 19, 2024 Golf - The 152nd Open Championship - Royal Troon Golf Club, Troon, Scotland, Britain - July 19, 2024 Tiger Woods of the U.S. hits his approach on the 3rd hole during the second round REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska
