Author Archives: Julia Bradley
US job openings fall to 3-1/2-year low in July
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job openings dropped to a 3-1/2-year low in July, suggesting the labor market was losing steam, but probably not enough for the Federal Reserve to consider a big interest r...
Sep 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign with a QR code is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Suspect in Chicago area train shooting charged with first-degree murder
FOREST PARK, Ill. - A man suspected of killing four people on a Chicago-area train shot them at close range while they were asleep, officials said Tuesday. The shooting happened before 5:30 a.m. Monda...
Sep 04, 2024 fergregory / Depositphotos.com
Peoria crews rescue occupants trapped after two-vehicle crash
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to N. Knoxville Avenue Tuesday morning on a two-vehicle rollover accident. Fire Battalion Chief Larry Carter says first crews arrived around 10:50 a.m., ...
Sep 04, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Tazewell Co. man sentenced to decades behind bars for drug-induced death
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - A Washington man convicted of drug-induced homicide was sentenced on Tuesday to 24 years in prison. 39-year-old Brent Dusch was sentenced for the March 22, 2022 death of Casson...
Sep 04, 2024 (Tazewell County Jail)
US charges Hamas leaders over Oct. 7 attack on Israel
(Reuters) -The United States announced criminal charges on Tuesday against Hamas' top leaders over their roles in planning, supporting and perpetrating the deadly Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel. The...
Sep 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Yehya Al-Sinwar Gaza Strip chief of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, speaks during a rally to mark the annual al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day), in Gaza, April 14, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File photo
Russian air attack kills seven, including three children, in Ukraine's Lviv, mayor says
LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -An overnight Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's western city of Lviv close to the border with NATO member Poland killed seven people, including three children, loca...
Sep 04, 2024 Rescuers work at the site of a residential building damaged during a Russian drone and missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine September 4, 2024. REUTERS/Roman Baluk
Peoria's 182nd Airlift Wing and German Air Force pilots are training together
PEORIA, Ill. - The Illinois Air National Guard 182nd Airlift Wing and the German Air Force flew together above Peoria Tuesday, preparing for a collaborative training mission. Last year, Peoria soldier...
Sep 04, 2024 C-130 Hercules aircraft from Illinois’ 182nd Airlift Wing and Connecticut’s 103rd Airlift Wing sit on the 182 AW apron in Peoria, Ill., Jan. 29, 2015. The Hercules is capable of taking off and landing on rough terrain and is a key airframe for airdropping troops and equipment into hostile areas. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Lealan Buehrer/Released)
Israeli attacks in Gaza kill 33 Palestinians but pauses allow third day of polio vaccinations
CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed 33 Palestinians across Gaza in the past 24 hours as they battled Hamas-led militants, Palestinian officials said on Tuesday, but brief pauses in fighting allowe...
Sep 03, 2024 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a college sheltering displaced people, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in the northern Gaza Strip, September 3, 2024. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Russian missile strike kills 41 people in Ukraine's Poltava, Zelenskiy says
KYIV (Reuters) -At least 41 people were killed and more than 180 wounded on Tuesday when Russia hit a military institute in the central town of Poltava, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, in one of t...
Sep 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy holds a press conference, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine August 27, 2024. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo
Greater Peoria Honor Flight headed to Washington, D.C.
PEORIA, Ill. - The 32nd Greater Peoria Honor Flight left for Washington, D.C. Tuesday morning. 77 local veterans and their guardians will be visiting the monuments and war memorials in D.C., before re...
Sep 03, 2024 (Greater Peoria Honor Flight)
