Author Archives: Julia Bradley
UPDATE: Florida woman identified as victim in fatal crash in Tazewell County
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - A 20-year-old woman from Florida is the victim in a fatal vehicle versus pedestrian crash early Wednesday morning. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley says the woman was pro...
May 08, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Thousands of youths at risk of losing access to after-school programs
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Advocates for community-based after-school programs say as many as 40,000 youths statewide could lose access to tutoring services, recreation and other extr...
May 08, 2024 Susan Stanton – ACT Now 240507: Susan Stanton, executive director of the advocacy group ACT Now, leads a rally calling on state lawmakers to provide funding to prevent after-school programs that serve an estimated 40,000 students statewide from being forced to close this summer. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
UPDATE: Battles rage around Rafah after US halts some weapons to Israel
UPDATED 12:41 P.M. CAIRO/WASHINGTON/RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) -Hamas battled Israeli troops on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip's crowded southern city of Rafah on Wednesday and Washington said it ha...
May 08, 2024 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 8, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
UPDATE: Strong storms to arrive this evening in central Illinois, but severe threat stays to the south
UPDATED 11:29 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Severe weather will appear to miss the Peoria area on Wednesday. The National Weather Service office in Lincoln predicts that severe storms will stay well south of ce...
May 08, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Residents displaced by fire Tuesday night in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a home on W. Kingsway Drive Tuesday night, on reports of a fire. Fire Battalion Chief Ryan Calhoun says crews arrived around 10 p.m., they found heavy...
May 08, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump documents trial start delayed indefinitely, judge orders
(Reuters) - Donald Trump's trial in Florida on charges of illegally keeping classified documents after leaving office has been indefinitely postponed, a judge decided on Tuesday, greatly reducing the ...
May 08, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the 2024 Senior Club Championship award ceremony at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. March 24, 2024. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo/File Photo
UPDATE: Judge denies mistrial request from Trump lawyer over Stormy Daniels testimony
UPDATED 1:41 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal trial denied on Tuesday a mistrial request by Trump's lawyer, who argued the day's testimony by porn star Stormy Dani...
May 07, 2024 Stormy Daniels is questioned by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger before Justice Juan Merchan during former U.S. President Donald Trump's criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. May 7, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Collins: A chance of severe storms remains through Wednesday
PEORIA, Ill. - Storms we've seen in Central Illinois Tuesday morning will move out of the area, but we could see an isolated storm or two Tuesday afternoon. 25 News First Alert Chief Meteorologist Chu...
May 07, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Russia detains two US nationals, including a serving soldier
UPDATE 7:39 A.M. MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian authorities said on Tuesday they had detained two U.S. nationals, including a serving U.S. soldier, in separate criminal cases. The soldier, detained on Mond...
May 07, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The Kremlin is seen next to the partially frozen Moskva river in Moscow, Russia January 26, 2024. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
Payments in focus as prosecutors make their case in Trump hush money trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Donald Trump's criminal trial are expected to call more witnesses on Tuesday as they build out their argument that he was responsible for illegally covering up a hu...
May 07, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters next to his attorney Todd Blanche, as he leaves New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York, USA, 06 May 2024. Trump is on trial for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. Peter Foley/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
