Author Archives: Julia Bradley
US job growth beats expectations in December; unemployment rate falls to 4.1%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth unexpectedly accelerated in December while the unemployment rate fell to 4.1% as the labor market ended the year on a solid footing, reinforcing the Federal Rese...
Jan 10, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A Chipotle restaurant advertises it is hiring in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., August 28, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File photo
UPDATED: Traffic Collision Alert cancelled for Peoria County
UPDATED 11:15am PEORIA COUNTY Ill. - The Peoria County Sheriff's Office has cancelled the Traffic Collision Alert for Peoria County. Citizens that were involved in vehicle crashes should report the ac...
Jan 10, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriffs Department)
Peoria could reimburse non-profit for housing the homeless in motels
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria outreach group LULA has helped more than 40 individuals living on the streets find shelter in a motel, and city officials may want to reimburse the organization. Since Jan. 4, LU...
Jan 10, 2025 Scott McLeod / CC
Collins: As light snow continues to fall, up to 3 inches is possible Friday
PEORIA, Ill. - Light snow began falling across Central Illinois overnight, and it will continue Friday morning. 25 News First Alert Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins says he's issued a First Alert Wea...
Jan 10, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Former US President Jimmy Carter remembered for rising above politics
UPDATED 12:08 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Jimmy Carter, a U.S. president who struggled with a bad economy and a hostage crisis but was widely admired in his post-White House career, was remembered duri...
Jan 09, 2025 The flag-draped casket of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is carried by a joint services military honor guard down the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 9, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/Pool
Top NY court rejects Trump bid to delay sentencing, court official says
NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York's top court rejected on Thursday U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's request to halt his sentencing for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to...
Jan 09, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks on the day that Senate Republicans meet with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and pay respects to former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29 at the age of 100, as his casket lies in state at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S. January 8, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
US hiring announcements in 2024 lowest in nine years
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hiring announcements by U.S. employers last year were the lowest since 2015, a report showed on Thursday, confirming a sharp moderation in job growth over that period. Global ou...
Jan 09, 2025 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Jurors to hear tape of Madigan saying ComEd contractors 'made out like bandits'
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Throughout his five-decade career in politics, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan received hundreds of requests for job recommendations from a wide range o...
Jan 09, 2025 Longtime Statehouse lobbyist Mike McClain and former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan are pictured leaving the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in 2023 and 2024. (Capitol News Illinois photos by Andrew Adams)
UPDATE: Massive Los Angeles fires rage on even as Hollywood blaze retreats
UPDATED 11:27 A.M. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A pair of massive wildfires menacing Los Angeles from the east and west were still burning uncontained on Thursday, two days after they ignited, but firefight...
Jan 09, 2025 Sun rises over the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of west Los Angeles, in the aftermath of devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area forcing people to evacuate, in California, U.S., January 9, 2025. REUTERS/Maria Alejandra Cardona
Peoria man released after arrest for alleged grooming of a minor
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has been released from the Peoria County Jail after being arrested Monday for allegedly sending inappropriate texts to an underage girl. Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins...
Jan 08, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
