Author Archives: Julia Bradley
U.S. weekly jobless claims rise moderately; unemployment rolls shrinking
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits increased moderately last week, keeping the trend at levels consistent with tightening labor market condition...
Julia Bradley Dec 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A job seeker leaves the job fair for airport related employment at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., December 7, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
U.S. sends final poverty-busting monthly Child Tax Credit payment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department said it distributed more than $16 billion in expanded Child Tax Credit payments on Wednesday in the final month of a COVID-19 pilot program set to e...
Julia Bradley Dec 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visits CentroNia, a bilingual early childhood education center, to highlight child tax credit programs, in Washington, U.S. June 11, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
From schools to sports, a new wave of COVID-19 disrupts U.S. life
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Universities canceled events, the National Football League reported a record number of cases, and long lines formed at New York City testing clinics as a sharp rise in COVID-19 cas...
Julia Bradley Dec 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: People wait in line to take coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests at pop-up testing site in New York City, U.S., December 14, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
U.S. records most hurricane-force gusts in a single day
(Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday registered the highest number of hurricane-force gusts on record in a single day, the National Weather Service (NWS) said, days after one of the deadliest to...
Julia Bradley Dec 16, 2021 Sparks are seen after a moving truck fell over due to high winds in Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S., December 15, 2021 in this still image obtained from a video. Video recorded December 15, 2021. Nebraska State Patrol/Handout via REUTERS
High winds cause power outages across central Illinois
PEORIA, Ill. -- High winds late Wednesday night left thousands without power in the Peoria area. Ameren Illinois reported roughly 3,000 customers in the Peoria area were in the dark at the peak of the...
Julia Bradley Dec 16, 2021 Photo: Ameren
Update: Driver charged in head-on crash on I-74
PEORIA, Ill. -- A head-on collision on I-74 early Thursday morning left one person seriously injured in Peoria. Illinois State Police say around 1 a.m., a westbound semi-truck collided with a pickup g...
Julia Bradley Dec 16, 2021 (25 News)
Collins: Damaging winds possible with Wind Advisory
PEORIA, Ill. -- There's a threat of damaging winds in the Peoria area Wednesday night. News partner 25 News Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins says that winds will continue to get stronger as the day p...
Julia Bradley Dec 15, 2021 Midwest Communications
Derek Chauvin expected to change plea to guilty in George Floyd civil rights case
(Reuters) - White former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday in a federal court in Minnesota to charges that he violated George Floyd's civil rights durin...
Julia Bradley Dec 15, 2021 Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens to his mother Carolyn Pawlenty deliver a statement to the judge as he awaits his sentencing for murder in the death of George Floyd during a sentencing hearing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. June 25, 2021 in a still image from video. Pool via REUTERS/Files
Omicron estimated at 2.9% of COVID-19 variants ; 800K COVID deaths in U.S.
(Reuters) - The Omicron variant was estimated to be 2.9% of the COVID-19 variants circulating in the United States as of Dec. 11, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preven...
Julia Bradley Dec 15, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A man is tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a mobile COVID-19 testing unit, as pedestrians make their way in the sidewalk during the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant in Manhattan, New York, U.S., December 8, 2021. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Juvenile arrested for threat at Bartonville grade school
BARTONVILLE, Ill. -- A juvenile was taken to the Peoria County Juvenile Detention Center on Tuesday after Bartonville Police were dispatched to the grade school on reports of a student threatening to ...
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