Author Archives: Julia Bradley
GasBuddy: Peoria gas prices drop just slightly after Thanksgiving
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have dropped 0.5 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.12 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices in Peoria are ...
Dec 02, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
Israeli tanks retreat from central Gaza camp, medics say 30 killed
CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli military strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians overnight in the Gaza Strip, most of them in the Nuseirat camp at the center of the enclave, medics said on Friday, after som...
Nov 29, 2024 FILE PHOTO: People move the body of a Palestinian at a hospital after an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, November 29, 2024. REUTERS/Khamis Said/File Photo
Retailers ready Black Friday offers as they face shorter selling season, cautious shoppers
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -From Taylor Swift's new Eras Tour book priced at $39.99 and sold only at Target, to a $50.99 Jessica Simpson puffer coat at Walmart, marked down from $84.99, retailers in Eu...
Nov 29, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A shopper walks past an advertisement for Black Friday sales displayed in a store window at Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 27, 2024. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo
Arson suspected in Thanksgiving Day fire in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a garage in the 900 block of W. Macqueen Avenue on reports of a fire on Thursday. Crews arrived just before 4:15 p.m., finding the garage on fire in t...
Nov 29, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Peoria's ready for 137th Santa Claus Parade Friday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria's Santa Claus Parade, the longest-running holiday parade of its kind in the nation, steps off Friday morning downtown for the 137th time at 9:15 a.m. Bundle up...because it will ...
Nov 29, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Five Democratic US lawmakers receive bomb threats at home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five Democratic U.S. lawmakers from Connecticut on Thursday said they were targeted with bomb threats at their homes, but no explosive devices had been found, according to socia...
Nov 29, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) gestures as he speaks during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats, in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 15, 2021. Al Drago/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
New parking, development in the works at Peoria's Warehouse District
PEORIA, Ill. - A section of downtown Peoria that's been vacant for over 100 years, is finally being redeveloped. In an area behind WTVP-TV, Peoria's public television station, the former rail yard for...
Nov 27, 2024 A new parking lot is coming to Peoria's Warehouse District. The area being redeveloped once was the rail yard for the Rock Island Depot. (25 News)
Trump chooses US COVID policy critic Bhattacharya to lead NIH
(Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday chose Stanford academic and U.S. COVID policy critic Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health, the country's top public funder of me...
Nov 27, 2024 FILE PHOTO: US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with House Republicans at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Washington, DC, U.S. on November 13, 2024. ALLISON ROBBERT/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Trump taps Jamieson Greer as US trade representative as ramps up tariff plans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday chose trade lawyer Jamieson Greer as his new U.S. trade representative, elevating a key veteran of his first-term trade war against China ...
Nov 27, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Chief of Staff of United States Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, takes part in a meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) of APEC ahead of November Presidential summit, at the Hotel Sheraton Miramar in Vina del Mar, Chile May 17, 2019. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido
Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire takes effect, civilians head back to south Lebanon
BEIRUT (Reuters) -A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah came into effect on Wednesday after both sides accepted an agreement brokered by the U.S. and France, a rare victory for...
Nov 27, 2024 A man waves a Lebanese flag as he stands amidst the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli strikes, after a ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed group Hezbollah took effect at 0200 GMT on Wednesday after U.S. President Joe Biden said both sides accepted an agreement brokered by the United States and France, in Tyre, Lebanon, November 27, 2024. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
