Author Archives: Ed Hammond
State treasurer putting unclaimed property up for bids
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois State Treasurer Mike Frerichs will host an auction of unclaimed property items. Items worth nearly $15,000 will be up for bids at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Lincoln State of ...
Aug 19, 2021 Midwest Communications
Local COVID-19 testing site to reopen
PEORIA, Ill. - One COVID-19 testing site will be back in operation. The Tazewell County Health Department, in a social media post, said the community-based COVID-19 testing site at the Peoria Civic Ce...
Aug 19, 2021 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Flag football game honors fallen Fulton County deputy
CANTON, Ill. - (25 News) - Fulton County residents teamed up with local law enforcement Saturday morning to play a special flag football game in honor of a sheriff's deputy who was killed in the line ...
Aug 15, 2021 25 News
Taliban enter Afghan capital two decades after U.S.-led ouster
UPDATE - KABUL (Reuters) -Taliban insurgents entered Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Sunday and an official said President Ashraf Ghani had left the city for Tajikistan, capping the militants' lightnin...
Aug 15, 2021 REUTERS/Stringer
Children hospitalized with COVID-19 in U.S. hits record number
WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Reuters) -The number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States hit a record high of just over 1,900 on Saturday, as hospitals across the South were stretched to c...
Aug 15, 2021 REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Local church hosts annual Back-to-School Festival
PEORIA, Ill. - (25 News) - New Beginnings Worship Center Church hosted its 11th annual Back-to-School Festival Saturday in South Peoria. Pastor Quinton Brown said the event aimed to help underprivileg...
Aug 15, 2021 25 News
South Peoria shooting sends two people to a hospital
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria police are investigating a shooting in South Peoria which resulted in two men being transported to a hospital. The incident occurred just after 9 p.m. Saturday in the 1600 block ...
Aug 15, 2021 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Motorcycle rider was traveling wrong way before fatal crash
UPDATE - PEORIA, Ill. - The victim of a weekend car-motorcycle crash in Peoria Heights has been identified. Ian Nemeth Jr., 22, of Loda was pronounced dead at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center moments ...
Aug 09, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
One Injured in Peoria County rollover accident
PEORIA, Ill. - The driver of a vehicle was transported to a hospital following a rollover accident in Peoria County. Peoria firefighters and paramedics were dispatched to Radnor Road at the Route 6 ov...
Aug 08, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Olympics - Tokyo douses Olympic flame, ending pandemic Games
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo doused its Olympic flame in a ceremony on Sunday that echoed the restraint of a Games that played out without spectators and were defined and transformed by the global pandemic...
Aug 08, 2021 REUTERS/Thomas Peter
