Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Pekin council votes down home rule referendum
PEKIN, Ill. - Pekin Mayor Mary Burress cast the deciding vote Monday night as the city council voted against putting a referendum on the November ballot that would ask residents whether the city shoul...
May 14, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Vacant home demolished after fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. - A vacant home caught fire in South Peoria early Monday morning. Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Larry Carter says crews arrived around 2:20 a.m. to the home on W. Third Street, finding smok...
May 13, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: US Senator Robert Menendez goes on trial for corruption, no jurors seated yet
UPDATED 3:44 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jury selection began on Monday in the corruption trial of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, with a judge excusing dozens of prospective jurors in a case that could af...
May 13, 2024 U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) arrives at Federal Court, for the start of his bribery trial in connection with an alleged corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen, in New York City, U.S., May 13, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
GasBuddy says Peoria gas prices still dropping
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in Peoria have dropped 5.7 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.71 on Monday, according to Gas Buddy's survey of local stations. Peoria's prices are just over 12 cen...
May 13, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
UPDATE: Cohen testifies Trump signed off on hush money payment to porn star
UPDATED 2:58 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen told jurors on Monday that the Republican presidential candidate personally signed off on a hush money payment to a porn...
May 13, 2024 Michael Cohen, former lawyer for Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump departs his home in Manhattan to testify in Trump's criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in New York City, U.S., May 13, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Peoria garage fire deemed accidental. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a home on John Gwynn Avenue Sunday evening for a fire. Fire Battalion Chief Larry Carter says crews arrived at 6:42 p.m., finding heavy smoke and flam...
May 13, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
As Peoria celebrates its "More Than Pink" Walk, a survivor says early detection and screenings are key
PEORIA, Ill. - On Saturday, hundreds of breast cancer survivors and their family and friends are walking in Peoria's Susan G. Komen "More Than Pink" Walk. The event, formerly "Race For The Cure", has ...
May 11, 2024 minervastock / Depositphotos.com
A year from the deadline, Giannoulias suggests getting REAL ID now
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A year from now, if you're booking a flight and don't have a REAL ID, you'll need to bring another form of ID with you to the airport, or you'll have to make a trip to the DMV. Ill...
May 10, 2024 (Illinois Secretary of State)
Israelis ready to fight with their fingernails, Netanyahu says in veiled Biden rebuff
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israelis are ready to fight with their "fingernails", Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday in a thinly veiled rebuff to U.S. President Joe Biden's warning that arms ...
May 10, 2024 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Jerusalem, May 6, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/Pool/File photo
US Senate passes sweeping aviation safety, consumer bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate late on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a broad aviation bill to boost air traffic controller staffing, increase funding to avert runway close-call incidents and s...
May 10, 2024 Passengers make their way through the terminal as they travel ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, U.S., November 22, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File photo
