Author Archives: Ed Hammond
Olympics - Former IOC president Rogge dies at 79
(Reuters) - Former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has died at the age of 79, the IOC said on Sunday. Rogge served as the IOC's eighth president from 2001 to 2013 and wen...
Aug 29, 2021 FILE PHOTO: REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian
U.S. strikes at Islamic State militants in Kabul as withdrawal nears end
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -American forces launched a drone strike in Kabul on Sunday targeting a suicide bomber in a vehicle who was aiming to attack the airport, U.S. officials said, as the United States...
Aug 29, 2021 U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Davis Harris/Handout via REUTERS
Louisiana braces for Hurricane Ida
UPDATE - 10:29 a.m. NEW ORLEANS - (Reuters) - By early Sunday, Ida was a Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. At 11 a.m. CDT (1600 GMT)...
Aug 29, 2021 REUTERS/Marco Bello
Three dogs die in West Bluff house fire
PEORIA, Ill. - Fire in Peoria's West Bluff claimed three dogs. Firefighters responded to a report of a house fire at 1637 W. Main St. at 7:14 p.m. Saturday. They arrived to find smoke coming from the ...
Aug 29, 2021 25 News
Protesters speak out against COVID-19 mandates
PEORIA, Ill. - (25 News) - The issue of COVID-19 related mandates continues to be hot button issue nationally and locally. A group of protesters gathered outside OSF HealthCare Saturday to speak out a...
Aug 29, 2021 25 News
Biden to receive bodies of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden headed to Dover Air Force Base on Sunday to honor members of the U.S. military killed in a suicide bomb attack during the evacuation of ci...
Aug 29, 2021 FILE PHOTO: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Bears win preseason finale
NASHVILLE, TN - (Reuters) - Jesper Horsted caught three touchdown passes and Nick Foles threw for 142 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Chicago Bears past host Tennessee in Nashville. Foles connect...
Aug 29, 2021 Midwest Communications
Biden aide guarantees safe passage for Americans from Afghanistan
UPDATE - 7:53 a.m. (Reuters) -U.S. forces were in the final phase of pulling out of Kabul, ending two decades of costly involvement in Afghanistan, as the country's new Taliban rulers prepared to take...
Aug 29, 2021 U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kaila V. Peters/Handout via REUTERS
UPDATE: Peoria woman found dead ID'd; person of interest arrested
UPDATE - 2:30 p.m. 8/23/21 Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the woman found dead as 37-year-old Ashley Tankersley, of South Madison Park, Peoria. The autopsy demonstrated she suffere...
Aug 23, 2021 Peoria County Sheriff's Office
U.S. "unwavering" in Afghanistan evacuations, Biden says
KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has an "unwavering commitment" to get U.S. citizens and at-risk Afghans to safety out of Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said, as Taliban fighters beat b...
Aug 22, 2021 REUTERS/Stringer
