Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Harvey Weinstein expected in New York court after rape conviction overturned
(Reuters) - Harvey Weinstein is due to appear in state court in Manhattan on Wednesday for the first time since New York's highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction last week. The hearing befor...
May 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Harvey Weinstein arrives at New York Criminal Court for another day of jury deliberations in his sexual assault trial in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., February 24, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
Peoria home demolished after fire Tuesday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a home on Tonti Circle on reports of a fire Tuesday night. Fire Battalion Chief Larry Carter says when crews arrived around 8:20 p.m., they found heav...
May 01, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Police move in to quell clashes at Los Angeles pro-Palestinian campus protest
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Violent clashes erupted early on Wednesday morning on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles between pro-Palestinian protesters and a group of counter-demons...
May 01, 2024 Demonstrators guard their encampment during a protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 1, 2024. REUTERS/David Swanson
Hamas official says Blinken ceasefire comments are attempt to pressure the group
CAIRO (Reuters) - Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said on Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is blaming the delay of a Gaza ceasefire agreement on the Palestinian group unfairl...
May 01, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reacts, as he speaks to the press in front of a truck with humanitarian aid bound for Gaza at the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization in Amman, Jordan, April 30, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/File Photo
UPDATE: Coroner identifies 18-year-old shot and killed in Peoria
UPDATE 9:19 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the young man who was shot and killed Tuesday night in Peoria. Harwood says the victim is 18-year-old MikeQuese Taylo...
May 01, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Walmart to shut all health clinics in US over lack of profitability
(Reuters) -Walmart said on Tuesday it will close all 51 of its health centers and shut its virtual health care operations, saying it could not see it as a sustainable business model to continue. "Heal...
Apr 30, 2024 Shopping trolley is seen in front of Walmart logo in this illustration, July 24, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
UPDATE: Judge fines Trump $9,000, threatens jail for contempt in hush money trial
UPDATED 1:39 P.M. (Reuters) -The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial fined the former U.S. president $9,000 for contempt of court on Tuesday and said he would consider jailing hi...
Apr 30, 2024 Former U.S. President Donald Trump chats with his son Eric Trump during his 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. April 30, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Driver hospitalized after crash on I-74 Monday night. Here's what we know
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. - On Monday night, the Woodford County Sheriff's Office received multiple calls of a car going off I-74 and into a lake. Sheriff Matthew Smith said an eastbound vehicle on I-74 a...
Apr 30, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Netanyahu vows again to storm Rafah as Israel awaits Hamas reply to truce proposal
UPDATED 2:54 P.M. JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday to go ahead with a long-promised assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, whatever the respo...
Apr 30, 2024 A pro-Israeli counter protestor holds up a sign as demonstrators gather outside of Columbia University to demand a ceasefire and the end of Israeli attacks on Gaza, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, during a protest in New York, U.S., April 20, 2024. REUTERS/Adam Gray/File Photo
UPDATE: Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy building at Columbia University - CNN
UPDATE 7:10 A.M. (Reuters) - Pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University were occupying a building on the New York City campus on Tuesday as officials limited access to students who live there a...
Apr 30, 2024 Protesters barricade themselves inside Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, expanding their protest after a deadline issued in the afternoon by university officials to disband or face suspension, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 30, 2024. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
