Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Pekin woman who asked ex-boyfriend to kill husband appealing sentence
By Liz Lape PEKIN (25 News) - A Pekin woman who pleaded guilty to asking an ex-boyfriend to kill her husband is now appealing the conviction and sentence. 48-year-old Allison Salinas is currently serv...
Feb 13, 2026 Allison Salinas, a Pekin woman accused of trying to have her husband killed, is appealing her sentence. (25 News)
Judge blocks Trump administration from cutting $600 million in public health funds
By Dietrich Knauth Feb 12 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Chicago temporarily blocked on Thursday the Trump administration from moving ahead with $600 million in cuts to public health grants in four st...
Feb 13, 2026 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable on rural health, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 16, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
New Tazewell County system aims to prevent fraud
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - Tazewell County is launching a new system designed to prevent notary and property fraud. County Clerk Chief Deputy Dan Sullivan says it's one of the fastest growing white-colla...
Feb 13, 2026 Tazewell County Courthouse (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Olympics-Figure skating-Malinin making history with skating's first Olympic backflip in decades
By Lori Ewing MILAN, Feb 12 (Reuters) - When Ilia Malinin launched himself into a backflip at the Milano Cortina Olympics, it detonated through the crowd like a firecracker and even brought tennis gre...
Feb 12, 2026 Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics - Figure Skating - Men Single Skating - Short Program - Milano Ice Skating Arena, Milan, Italy - February 10, 2026. Ilia Malinin of United States performs during the Short Program REUTERS/Yara Nardi
RFK Jr's vaccine agenda faces Boston judge who has handed Trump setbacks
By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sweeping efforts to upend U.S. immunization policies are set to go before a federal judge in Bost...
Feb 12, 2026 U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 29, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Marimar Martinez, Chicago woman shot and briefly charged by Border Patrol, moves to sue
Article Summary Marimar Martinez, the Chicago teacher's aide shot five times by a Border Patrol agent last fall, will release evidence that was recently unsealed from the government's dismissed case a...
Feb 12, 2026 Marimar Martinez and her attorneys present recently unsealed evidence from her trial at a Feb. 11, 2026, news conference. Martinez’s legal team announced at the event that they would be filing a Federal Torts Claim Act complaint later that day, the first step toward a civil suit against the Border Patrol agent who shot Martinez five times in October. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Maggie Dougherty)
Investigators fan out in search of Nancy Guthrie, analyze discarded glove
By Erica Stapleton and Jana Winter TUCSON, Arizona, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Sheriff's deputies and FBI agents fanned out along highways, vacant lots and remote dwellings of southern Arizona on Wednesday, c...
Feb 12, 2026 Well-wishers leave flowers outside of Nancy Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills after the disappearance of Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of U.S. journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, who went missing from her home in Tucson, Arizona, U.S. February 11, 2026. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble
Peoria family displaced by fire
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria family was displaced Wednesday night by a fire in the area of N. Victoria Avenue and W. Overbrook Drive. The Peoria Fire Department responded to the fire around 8:45 p.m., find...
Feb 12, 2026 (Midwest Communications)
Peoria Zoo is introducing three new spider monkeys to the public
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Zoo is introducing three baby spider monkeys to the public. The Zoo's Executive Director Max Lakes says their journey here from Mexico wasn't an easy one. "They were confiscated ...
Feb 11, 2026 (Peoria Zoo)
US job growth accelerates in January, unemployment rate falls to 4.3%
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - U.S. job growth accelerated in January and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, signs of labor market stability that could give the Federal Reserve room...
Feb 11, 2026 A “Help Wanted” sign hangs in restaurant window in Medford, Massachusetts, U.S., January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
