Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Kentucky resumes counting the dead from barrage of tornadoes
MAYFIELD, Ky. (Reuters) - Rescue workers resumed combing through debris on Monday in the scant hope of finding survivors from a battery of deadly tornadoes that tore through six states, with Kentucky ...
Julia Bradley Dec 13, 2021 Damage and debris is seen after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripped through Bowling Green Kentucky, U.S. December 12, 2021. REUTERS/Amira Karaoud
Arson cause of overnight fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Emergency crews responded around 1:45 a.m. Monday to reports of a structure fire in the 1000 block of E. Behrends Avenue in Peoria. Firefighters found a detached single car garage engu...
Julia Bradley Dec 13, 2021 Midwest Communications
Salvation Army promotes giving during Red Kettle Matching weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- $1.7 million. That's this year's goal of the Salvation Army's Tree of Lights Campaign. Major Health Sells, Tri-County Development Director for the Salvation Army, says a Red Kettle mat...
Julia Bradley Dec 10, 2021
Washington mourns former U.S. Senator, presidential candidate Bob Dole
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator and Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole's funeral at Washington National Cathedral on Friday was expected to draw President Joe Biden and senior membe...
Julia Bradley Dec 10, 2021 Military Honor Guard members carry the flag-draped casket of former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole to the a funeral service at the National Cathedral in Washington, U.S., December 10, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
U.S. Supreme Court allows challenge to Texas six-week abortion ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed abortion providers to pursue a legal challenge to a ban on most abortions in Texas, with the fate of the Republican-backed measure that a...
Julia Bradley Dec 10, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A supporter of reproductive rights holds a sign outside the Texas State Capitol building during the nationwide Women's March, held after Texas rolled out a near-total ban on abortion procedures and access to abortion-inducing medications, in Austin, Texas, U.S. October 2, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
U.S. consumer prices increase further in November
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices increased further in November as the cost of goods and services rose broadly amid supply constraints, leading to the largest annual gain since 1982, which c...
Julia Bradley Dec 10, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Shoppers browse in a supermarket while wearing masks to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in north St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant/File Photo
Missing Peoria Heights teen found safe
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. -- Peoria Heights Police say a teen, who'd been missing for over a month, has been found safe. Collin Hilberg was reported missing on November 5. His mother, Shannon Dunaway, told...
Julia Bradley Dec 10, 2021 (25 News)
Woman receives 15-year sentence for fatal hit-and-run
PEORIA, Ill. -- A woman arrested for a fatal hit-and-run crash in Peoria earlier this year received the maximum prison sentence Thursday. 40-year-old Diana Schick, who pleaded guilty, will serve 11 ye...
Julia Bradley Dec 10, 2021 Peoria County Jail
U.S. appeals court rejects Trump bid to withhold records on Capitol attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected a request by former President Donald Trump to withhold records from the House of Representatives probe of the deadly Jan. 6 attack on th...
Julia Bradley Dec 10, 2021 Security fencing is seen near the U.S. Capitol ahead of an expected rally Saturday in support of the January 6 Capitol attack defendants in Washington, U.S. September 17, 2021. REUTERS/Michael Weekes/File Photo
Collins: Threat of severe storms Friday night
PEORIA, Ill. -- There is a real chance of severe weather as we head into the weekend. News partner 25 News Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins told WMBD News that the Peoria metro area is at a Level Two...
Julia Bradley Dec 10, 2021 Midwest Communications
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