Author Archives: Julia Bradley
GasBuddy: Peoria prices drop just a bit
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have dropped 1.7 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.74 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices in Peoria ar...
Aug 05, 2024 Orin Zebest / CC
Man stabbed in Peoria Thursday night
PEORIA, Ill. -Police say a man was stabbed in the neck Thursday night in Peoria. Police Spokesperson Semone Roth says officers responded around 7:25 p.m. to the area of S. Livingston and Humboldt Stre...
Aug 02, 2024 (Midwest Communication)
Non-profit started in Peoria continues to send ambulances to Ukraine
PEORIA, Ill. - Saving lives with donated ambulances, fire engines and SUVs. That's the mission of U.S. Ambulances for Ukraine, a non-profit that got its start two years ago in Peoria. OSF HealthCare's...
Aug 02, 2024 A former AMT ambulance is delivered to Ukraine in 2022. (File-OSF HealthCare)
US judge throws out $4.7 billion verdict against NFL in 'Sunday Ticket' lawsuit
(Reuters) -A U.S. judge in California on Thursday threw out a $4.7 billion verdict against the National Football League in a lawsuit claiming it overcharged subscribers to its Sunday Ticket game telec...
Aug 02, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The NFL logo is pictured at an event in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 30, 2017. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
Americans, Russian assassin freed in biggest post-Cold War prisoner swap
MOSCOW/ANKARA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan returned to the United States on Thursday, hours after being freed from Russian detention in the big...
Aug 02, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris greet Evan Gershkovic, who was released from detention in Russia, upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., August 1, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
Slain Hamas leader Haniyeh's funeral held in Qatar, Israel is warned of revenge
DUBAI (Reuters) -The funeral of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh took place in Qatar on Friday following his assassination two days ago in Iran's capital Tehran - one in a series of killings of senior figu...
Aug 02, 2024 Mourners carry the coffin of assassinated Hamas chief, Ismail Haniyeh during his funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, August 1, 2024. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency) Handout via REUTERS
PARIS OLYMPICS 2024: What you need to know right now
PARIS (Reuters) -Athletics kicks into gear at the Olympics on Friday, while home crowd favorite Leon Marchand goes for his fourth swimming title of the Paris Games and French judo great Teddy Riner ey...
Aug 02, 2024 Paris 2024 Olympics - Swimming - Men's 200m Individual Medley Semifinal 2 - Paris La Defense Arena, Nanterre, France - August 01, 2024. Leon Marchand of France in action. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
Trump loses appeal of gag order in hush money criminal case
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York state appeals court on Thursday rejected Donald Trump's challenge to a gag order in his hush money criminal case, where the former U.S. president was convicted in May o...
Aug 01, 2024 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump closes his eyes during a panel of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. July 31, 2024. REUTERS/Vincent Alban/File Photo
OSF HealthCare's Bob Anderson announcing retirement
PEORIA, Ill. - OSF HealthCare is announcing the retirement of Central Region CEO Bob Anderson early next year. OSF says Anderson has been instrumental in designing and constructing several projects on...
Aug 01, 2024 (OSF HealthCare)
UPDATE: Americans Gershkovich and Whelan, Russian assassin, freed in biggest post-Cold War prisoner swap
UPDATED 11:10 A.M. MOSCOW/ANKARA (Reuters) - Jailed U.S. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were among two dozen detainees from the United States, Russia and ...
Aug 01, 2024 A combination picture shows former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who was detained and accused of espionage, as he speaks inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing to consider an appeal to extend his detention, in Moscow, Russia June 20, 2019, and "The Wall Street Journal" reporter Evan Gershkovich, who stands trial on spying charges, inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing in Yekaterinburg, Russia June 26, 2024. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov and Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo
