Author Archives: Ed Hammond
Area road construction projects begin Monday
PEORIA, Ill. - Several road construction projects will impact traffic in the Peoria area beginning Monday. East Washington in East Peoria will be reduced to one lane in various locations between North...
Jun 23, 2024 Midwest Communications
Mail strewn about neighborhood prompts police investigation
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The East Peoria Police Department is investigating what it believes to be the theft of mail. Police received a complaint around 5:24 a.m. Saturday of mail scattered throughout an a...
Jun 22, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Trump urges Christians to vote, touches only briefly on abortion at faith event
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Donald Trump called on religious supporters to go to the polls in a speech to conservative Christian activists on Saturday, but mentioned only briefly the politically sensitiv...
Jun 22, 2024 Washington, U.S., June 22, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Biden, Trump prep for presidential debate that will highlight mental fitness
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden is hunkered down with aides at Camp David for several days to get ready to debate rival Donald Trump, who is eschewing traditional preparation and instead holding infor...
Jun 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden answers a question as President Donald Trump listens during the second and final presidential debate at the Curb Event Center at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., October 22, 2020. Morry Gash/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
State highway shootings decline as critics sue over 'dragnet surveillance'
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois State Police say an automated license plate reader program has helped the agency identify witnesses or suspects in 82 percent of highway shooting c...
Jun 22, 2024 Flashing lights are pictured on an Illinois State Police car. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Peoria hosts first Juneteenth Parade
PEORIA, Ill. - Juneteenth is this coming Wednesday, but Peoria got a head start on the celebration Saturday by hosting its first-ever Juneteenth Parade. 25 News reports the parade was organized by the...
Jun 16, 2024 25 News
CNN rules for first US presidential debate: no props, muted microphones
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first U.S. presidential debate between incumbent Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump on June 27 will include two commercial breaks, no props and muted microphones ex...
Jun 16, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Combination picture showing former U.S. President Donald Trump attending the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., November 6, 2023 and U.S. President Joe Biden participating in a meeting with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 1, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid and Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Trump visits Detroit church in bid to court Black voters
DETROIT (Reuters) -Donald Trump ventured on Saturday where few Republican presidential candidates tread - the city of Detroit, attending a community forum as part of a push to peel Black voters from P...
Jun 16, 2024 180 Church, Detroit, June 15, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Biden slams Supreme Court at $28 million fundraiser with Obama, Clooney, Julia Roberts
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -President Joe Biden slammed the U.S. Supreme Court as "out of kilter" at a glitzy fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday with former President Barack Obama and top Hollywood cele...
Jun 16, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden and former U.S. President Barack Obama share a laugh during a star-studded campaign fundraiser at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 15, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Area road construction projects begin Monday
CENTRAL ILLINOIS, Ill. - Several new road construction projects will impact traffic next week. Southbound 14th Street in Pekin will be closed at Derby Street as part of the Derby Street reconstruction...
Jun 15, 2024 Midwest Communications
