Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Chase Bank's downtown Peoria location permanently closed
PEORIA, Ill. - The signs have been removed, and the ATM outside Chase Bank's Jefferson Street location in Peoria is boarded up. A Chase spokesperson confirms the downtown Peoria branch closed for good...
Sep 19, 2024 A moving truck is seen outside the Riverview Plaza building on March 11th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US Senate to move on stopgap bill to avert partial government shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will prepare temporary spending legislation that would avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the month, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said o...
Sep 19, 2024 A view shows the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., August 8, 2024. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal/File Photo
Man dies in late night shooting in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating the City's latest homicide after a shooting late Thursday night. PPD Spokesperson Semone Roth says officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the 200 b...
Sep 19, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
US weekly jobless claims unexpectedly fall
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, suggesting job growth picked up in September. Initial claims for state une...
Sep 19, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian passes a "Help Wanted" sign in the door of a hardware store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Police find body believed to be that of Kentucky highway shooter who wounded 5
(Reuters) -Police on Wednesday said they discovered a body believed to be that of a fugitive suspected of shooting and wounding five people in cars traveling along a Kentucky highway on Sept. 7, an ou...
Sep 19, 2024 Drivers park on the the lanes of the I-75 highway after reports of multiple people shot about nine miles north of London, Kentucky, U.S. September 7, 2024. Mount Vernon Fire Department/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Israel bombs Lebanon after radio blasts, says it thwarts assassination plot
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel bombed southern Lebanon on Thursday and said it had thwarted an Iran-backed assassination plot, a day after explosions of Hezbollah radios that came on the heels of blasts ...
Sep 19, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher/File Photo
At New York rally Trump blames 'radical left', without citing evidence, for second assassination attempt
UNIONDALE, New York (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed he was being targeted by "radical left" forces and vowed to campaign with renewed purpose at his first full-fledg...
Sep 19, 2024 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, in Uniondale, New York, U.S., September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Biden to hail US economic progress after Fed rate cut, no victory lap yet, officials say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will tout progress in bringing down inflation and boosting employment on Thursday after the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut, while vowing to keep wo...
Sep 19, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to reporters before receiving a briefing regarding the ongoing wildfire season response and federal efforts to reduce wildfire risk, at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 17, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Morton dismisses fire chief, interim chief selected
MORTON, Ill. - The Morton Village Board will not reinstate the fire chief, after 25 years on the job. Mayor Jeff Kaufman removed Fire Chief Joe Kelley from his position on August 29, explaining why at...
Sep 18, 2024
US FBI strikes second Chinese hacking group, director says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement has disrupted a second major Chinese hacking group nicknamed "Flax Typhoon," FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Wednesday, wresting thousands of compromi...
Sep 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the word "hacker" in this illustration taken, February 19, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
