Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Peoria home damaged by fire Wednesday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - Firefighters were called to a home in the area of Hayward and Jefferson Streets in Peoria Wednesday morning. Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Haskall says crews arrived around 7:30 a.m., findi...
May 29, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Jury begins deliberations in Trump criminal hush money trial
UPDATE 10:59 A.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jurors in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial began deliberations on Wednesday, retreating behind closed doors to weigh the evidence and testimony they have ...
May 29, 2024 Former President Donald Trump sits in court as the jury gets set to begin deliberations in the hush money trial filed against him by DA Bragg. May 29 2024. Curtis Means/Pool via REUTERS
Exclusive-White House to support new nuclear power plants in the U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday plans to announce new measures to support the development of new U.S. nuclear power plants, a large potential source of carbon-free electricity the ...
May 29, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant is pictured from Royalton, Pennsylvania, U.S. May 30, 2017. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
Israel says Gaza war likely to last another seven months as tanks probe Rafah
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel sent tanks on raids into Rafah on Wednesday and said its war on Hamas in Gaza would likely continue all year, after Washington said the Rafah assault did not amount to a major ...
May 29, 2024 Smoke rises above southern Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Israel's border with Gaza in southern Israel, May 28, 2024. REUTERS/Thomas Suen
Memorial Day shooting leaves two injured
PEORIA, Ill. - A shooting in Peoria's West Bluff late Monday night left two people injured. Peoria Police Spokesperson Semone Roth says officers were called around 10:10 p.m. to N. Douglas on a ShotSp...
May 29, 2024
Biden returns to Philadelphia to court Black voters
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will unveil a new coalition in Philadelphia on Wednesday to court Black voters, a critical voting bloc that is showing signs of weakness for Democrats ahea...
May 29, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the National Memorial Day Wreath-Laying and Observance Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., May 27, 2024. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/ File Photo
Historic criminal trial of Hunter Biden to probe drug addiction
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -The criminal trial of Hunter Biden on gun charges kicks off next week, with federal prosecutors likely to dissect lurid details of his crack cocaine addiction that coul...
May 29, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs the O'Neill House Office Building in Washington, U.S., February 28, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Jurors likely to begin deliberations in Trump hush money trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jurors are likely to begin deliberations on Wednesday in Donald Trump's hush money trial, sorting through weeks of evidence and testimony behind closed doors as they determine whe...
May 29, 2024 Former U.S. President Donald Trump returns after a break in his criminal trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 28, 2024 in New York City. Trump arrived for closing arguments in his hush money trial ahead of the jury deciding whether to make him the first criminally convicted former president and current White House hopeful in history. Spencer Platt/Pool via REUTERS/ File Photo
UPDATE: Once again working through the night, IL lawmakers finalize $53.1 billion budget
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - After a near-derailment and an all-nighter to wrap up the General Assembly's spring session, supermajority Democrats in the Illinois House gave final legisl...
May 29, 2024 State Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth, D-Peoria, introduces the state’s operating budget in the early hours of Wednesday morning at the Capitol. The budget passed after 1 a.m., with Gordon-Booth calling it “balanced, responsible and fair.” (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
UPDATE: Prosecutor says Trump hush money payment undermined 2016 election as trial nears end
UPDATED 3:19 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York prosecutor told jurors that Donald Trump engaged in a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 election and then tried to cover it up, as lawyers made their clos...
May 28, 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures, as his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 continues, at Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. May 28, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/Pool
