Author Archives: Ed Hammond
Ex-Illinois star Terrence Shannon Jr. to stand trial for rape
READER DISCRETION ADVISED DOUGLAS COUNTY, KS - (Reuters) - Former Illinois star Terrence Shannon Jr. will stand trial for first-degree felony rape and felony sexual aggravated battery next month, a Ka...
May 11, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Mar 30, 2024; Boston, MA, USA; Illinois Fighting Illini guard Terrence Shannon Jr. (0) reacts against the Connecticut Huskies in the finals of the East Regional of the 2024 NCAA Tournament at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Winslow Townson-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo
Israel orders people in more areas of Gaza's Rafah to evacuate
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel called on Saturday for Palestinians in more areas of Gaza's southern city of Rafah to evacuate and head to what it calls an expanded humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi, in a f...
May 11, 2024 May 11, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Prosecutors urge 40 years in prison for attacker of Pelosi's husband
(Reuters) - The man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home and clubbed her husband with a hammer should serve 40 years in prison for his conviction on federal offenses that amoun...
May 11, 2024 Courtroom deputy Ada Means reads the guilty verdict to convict David Wayne DePape of a hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a federal court in San Francisco, California, U.S., November 16, 2023, in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Vicki Behringer/File Photo
UPDATE: Peoria homicide victim identified
UPDATE - PEORIA, Ill. - The victim of a fatal shooting in Peoria's West Bluff has been identified. The Peoria County Coroner's Office says Thomas Antoine, 30, of Main Street in Peoria was found by off...
May 05, 2024
Dozens arrested in weekend of protests on U.S. campuses
(Reuters) -Police on Saturday arrested at least 25 pro-Palestinian protesters and cleared an encampment at the University of Virginia, the university said in a statement, as U.S. campuses braced for m...
May 05, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A coalition of University of Michigan students camp in the Diag to pressure the university to divest its endowment from companies that support Israel or could profit from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, on the University of Michigan college campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
South Peoria fire destroys home
PEORIA, Ill. - A South Peoria residence is determined to be uninhabitable after a fire. Peoria firefighters were dispatched to near Warren and Ann streets at 5:08 p.m. Saturday on a report of a struct...
May 05, 2024 D4E / CC
UAW workers ratify labor deal with Daimler Truck
(Reuters) -Members of the United Auto Workers on Saturday ratified a new labor contract with Daimler Truck that includes at least a 25% general wage increase over the four-year deal. The vote was 94.5...
May 05, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A person wearing a T-shirt that has "UAW member" written on it is pictured as the result of a vote comes in favour of the hourly factory workers at Volkswagen's assembly plant to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, during a watch party in Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S., April 19, 2024. REUTERS/Seth Herald/File Photo
Russia puts Ukraine's Zelenskiy on wanted list
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and put him on a wanted list, the state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, an announcement Ukra...
May 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a joint press conference with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 29, 2024. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo
Biden gives Katie Ledecky, Michelle Yeoh the Medal of Freedom
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A winner of seven Olympic gold medals, a leader of the Mississippi civil rights struggle and a pioneer of television's tabloid talk show genre are part of this year's class of Pr...
May 04, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Phil Donahue during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 3, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Teen shot during "after prom party" in Chillicothe
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - An 18-year-old male is hospitalized after being shot during what has been described to authorities as an "after prom party." Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins says deputies respo...
Apr 28, 2024
