Author Archives: Julia Bradley

Bradley to host North Alabama in NIT home game
PEORIA, Ill. - The Bradley Braves season will continue, with at least one more home game in front of the home crowd. Bradley was announced as the 3-seed in the Dayton Region of the National Invitation...
Julia Bradley Mar 17, 2025 (Bradley University Athletics)

Peoria Public Works working to clear debris from Friday night's storms
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Public Works crews are working to clear downed trees and branches left blocking roads, sidewalks, and alleys, after strong to severe thunderstorms rolled through the area Friday ...
Julia Bradley Mar 15, 2025 (City of Peoria)

Downed tree causes crash on I-74 following storms Friday night
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - Illinois State Police say a two vehicle crash on Interstate 74 Friday night was caused by a tree in the road as strong thunderstorms moved through the area. ISP says the crash ha...
Julia Bradley Mar 15, 2025 (Illinois State Police)

New road projects begin Monday in Peoria and Tazewell Counties
PEORIA, Ill. - Beginning Monday, lane restrictions will return to I-474 and Airport Road. I-474 will be reduced to one lane in each direction as work resumes on the Airport Road overpass. Lane closure...
Julia Bradley Mar 15, 2025 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond, File

Stuck NASA astronauts one step closer to home after SpaceX crew-swap launch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA and SpaceX on Friday launched a long-awaited crew to the International Space Station that opens the door to bringing home U.S. astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, w...
Julia Bradley Mar 15, 2025 FILE PHOTO: NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Nick Hague, Barry Wilmore, and Donald Pettit unbox Thanksgiving meals, from the International Space Station (ISS), in this screen grab taken from a handout video, released on November 26, 2024. NASA/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Wind Advisory in effect until 4 PM Saturday (3/15)
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Lincoln IL 229 AM CDT Sat Mar 15 2025 ILZ028>031-037-038-042>046-053>057-062-063-151530- /O.CON.KILX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-250315T2100Z/ Sta...
Julia Bradley Mar 15, 2025

Canton, Hanna City sees damage from severe storms Friday night
PEORIA, Ill. -- Storms moved through Central Illinois late Friday night knocking out power to hundreds of customers and causing property damage in some areas including Canton and Hanna City. In Canton...
Julia Bradley Mar 15, 2025 Storm damage in Central Illinois Friday night included signs that blown to the ground outside Gil's Supper Club in Hanna City. (25 News)

Israel rejects Hamas offer to free Israeli-American hostage as 'psychological warfare'
CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) -Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to free an American-Israeli dual national if Israel begins the next phase of ceasefire talks towards a permanent end to the war, an offer Isra...
Julia Bradley Mar 14, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A Torah and A photograph of Edan Alexander, the American-Israeli and Israel Defense Forces soldier taken hostage during the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas, sit in his home during a family interview with Reuters in Tenafly, New Jersey, U.S., December 14, 2024. REUTERS/Stephani Spindel/File Photo

TV's Dr. Oz, Trump's Medicare nominee, to face questions on ties to industry
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician and former Republican Senate candidate nominated by President Donald Trump to a top U.S. health job, appeared before the Senate Finance Co...
Julia Bradley Mar 14, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz departs from his polling location after voting in the 2022 U.S. midterm election in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 8, 2022.

Judge James Shadid named Bradley University's new president
PEORIA, Ill. - Federal Judge James Shadid, who has served the Central District of Illinois, has been named the new President of Bradley University. In a statement from the university, the Bradley Boar...
Julia Bradley Mar 14, 2025 Federal Judge James Shadid, who has served the District of Central Illinois, has been named the new president of Bradley University
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