Author Archives: Ed Hammond

UPDATE - PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria police are looking for the driver of a vehicle which may be connected to an accident that sent three people to a local hospital with serious to critical injuries. The ac...

PEORIA, Ill. - The COVID-19 pandemic isn't the only health concern for the health departments in the Tri-County and the area's other medical entities. Monica Hendrickson, administrator of the Peoria C...

PEORIA, Ill. - (OSF HealthCare) - As the delta variant becomes more common, now making up 99% of cases in the U.S., OSF HealthCare frontline doctors are seeing more and more cases of pregnant women ad...

MORTON, Ill - (25 News ) - A fitness center in Morton hosted a memorial workout for the 13 service members killed in a suicide bombing at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan. BRelentless Training and Sports ...

(Reuters) - Willard Scott, the ebullient former "Today" show weatherman, venerator of centenarians, pitchman extraordinaire and the original hamburger-hawking Ronald McDonald, died on Saturday, his su...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Sunday that he was praying that many countries take Afghan refugees and, in an apparent reference to the Taliban's past restrictions on schooling for wome...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will visit all three sites of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacking attacks next week to honor the nearly 3,000 people killed and mark the 20th anniversary of t...

PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria house fire results in one person being transported to a hospital. The fire was reported at 8:47 p.m. Friday at 610 East Corrington. Firefighters found the back of the one-and-a...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two-time champion Naomi Osaka's U.S. Open title defense ended in tears on Friday, as she suffered a stunning defeat in the third round to Canadian Leylah Fernandez 5-7 7-6(2) 6-4,...

(Reuters) - Ed Asner, who played a gruff newsman for laughs and for drama in the classic TV series "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff "Lou Grant" in the 1970s and 1980s and was honored with s...