Author Archives: Julia Bradley
PCAPS offers tips to keep your pets cool in the heat
PEORIA, Ill. -- When you're hot, they're hot. Becky Spencer, with Peoria Animal Protective Services, says it's that simple. On hot summer days, leave pets at home where they'll stay cool. She says in ...
Julia Bradley Aug 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Major, one of the family dogs of U.S. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, explores the South Lawn after on his arrival from Delaware at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 24, 2021. Picture taken January 24, 2021. Adam Schultz/White House/Handout via REUTERS.
Russia sentences Griner to 9 years in jail, Biden calls for her release
UPDATED 12:26 P.M. KHIMKI, Russia (Reuters) -A Russian court sentenced U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on Thursday after finding her guilty of deliberately bringing cannab...
Julia Bradley Aug 04, 2022 U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, walks after the final statements in a court hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
With eye on Russia, U.S. Senate backs Finland and Sweden joining NATO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate approved on Wednesday Finland and Sweden's accession to NATO, the most significant expansion of the 30-member alliance since the 1990s as it responds to Russia's ...
Julia Bradley Aug 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. August 2, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Sandy Hook parents seek to stop InfoWars bankruptcy payments to Alex Jones
(Reuters) - Parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre urged a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday not to allow the parent company of far-right website InfoWars to send any money...
Julia Bradley Aug 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Alex Jones speaks with media after day six of trial at the Travis County Courthouse, in Austin, U.S. August 2, 2022. Briana Sanchez/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Police: Shooting on E. Republic in Peoria was accidental, self-inflicted
UPDATED 12:22 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. -- One person was shot in the thigh last (Wednesday) night in Peoria in a shooting that happened near Glen Oak Park. Peoria Police spokesperson Semone Roth says officer...
Julia Bradley Aug 04, 2022 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
Suspect in July 4 mass shooting near Chicago pleads not guilty
(Reuters) -An Illinois man accused of opening fire on spectators watching an Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb last month pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to 117 counts connected to the attac...
Julia Bradley Aug 03, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A mourner holds a sign advocating for gun control while visiting a memorial for victims of a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. July 7, 2022. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
I-EMA: Be prepared for flash flooding and severe weather
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- With the threat of severe weather still lingering this week, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, or I-EMA, is reminding people to check the forecast before they go out, and ...
Julia Bradley Aug 03, 2022
Kansas votes to preserve abortion rights in first post-Roe v. Wade election test
(Reuters) - Kansas voters on Tuesday rejected an effort to remove abortion protections from the state's constitution, a resounding win for the abortion rights movement in the first statewide electoral...
Julia Bradley Aug 03, 2022 Abortion-rights supporters react as early polls showed that voters rejected a state constitutional amendment that would have declared there is no right to abortion, at a Kansans for Constitutional Freedom election watch party in Topeka, Kansas, U.S. August 2, 2022. Evert Nelson/USA Today Network via REUTERS.
Biden to sign another executive order seeking to protect abortion rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden plans to sign a second executive order on Wednesday meant to address the recent Supreme Court decision to end the nationwide constitutional right to abortion...
Julia Bradley Aug 03, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the nation on the killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a U.S. drone strike, in Washington, U.S. August 1, 2022. Jim Watson/Pool via REUTERS
Baseball-Legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully dies at 94
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Vin Scully, one of baseball's most revered broadcasters who called Dodgers' games for a record-breaking 67 years and narrated some of the sport's greatest moments, died on Tues...
Julia Bradley Aug 03, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Vin Scully smiles in a broadcast booth during the National League MLB baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, April 25, 2007. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok (UNITED STATES)/File Photo