Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Peoria Riverfront Museum's new exhibit focused on invention
PEORIA, Ill. - There's a new exhibit at the Peoria Riverfront Museum that's all about inventions and patents. "The Fire of Genius...Presidents and Patents" exhibit opens Tuesday, February 20 and runs ...
Feb 19, 2024 Rich and Becky Beam are the owners of a collection of patents signed by U.S. presidents on display the Peoria Riverfront Museum. (Julia Bradley/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Israel's six-week drive to hit Hamas in Rafah and scale back war
DOHA (Reuters) - Israel expects to continue full-scale military operations in Gaza for another six to eight weeks as it prepares to mount a ground invasion of the enclave's southernmost city of Rafah,...
Feb 19, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A displaced Palestinian boy, who fled his house due to Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, stands by a fence at a tent camp at the border with Egypt, amid fears of an Israeli ground assault in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip February 18, 2024. REUTERS/Saleh Salem
UPDATE: Navalny's widow says she will continue her husband's fight against Putin
UPDATED 1:26 P.M. MOSCOW (Reuters) -Yulia Navalnaya said on Monday she would continue the fight of her dead husband Alexei Navalny for a "free Russia" and called on supporters to oppose President Vlad...
Feb 19, 2024 Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, takes part in a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels, Belgium February 19, 2024. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Pool
MN officers killed in stand off outside the Twin Cities
BURNSVILLE, Minn. - Two Minnesota police officers and a paramedic were killed early Sunday while responding to a domestic abuse call that resulted in an hours long standoff. The suspect, who officials...
Feb 19, 2024 Tony Webster / CC
N. Peoria Arby's hit a second time. Here's what we know
NORTH PEORIA, Ill. - What are the chances of a restaurant being struck twice? Apparently pretty good...at least in Peoria. A driver crashed into the Arby's on Allen Road in North Peoria on Sunday afte...
Feb 19, 2024 A vehicle crashed into the entrance of the Arby's on Allen Road in North Peoria Sunday afternoon. (25 News)
Peoria area gas prices still on the rise. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have risen 17 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.43 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Peoria's prices are 33.7...
Feb 19, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
Williams: Not as much snow Friday in Tazewell County
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - As snow continued to fall across Central Illinois Friday, some areas were seeing more snow than others. Scott Williams, with the Tazewell County Highway Department, told WMBD R...
Feb 16, 2024 Midwest Communications
Trump prosecutor Fani Willis won't testify on Friday on misconduct claims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Georgia prosecutor overseeing the election interference case against Donald Trump will not take the stand on Friday in a hearing exploring whether her romantic relationship w...
Feb 16, 2024 Attorney Fani Willis speaks during a hearing in the case of State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., February 15, 2024. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer/Pool
Hur set to testify before Congress on Biden's fitness to be president
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an unusual move, the Department of Justice wrote to the White House Counsel last week telling them that special counsel Robert Hur's report "was consistent with legal requirement...
Feb 16, 2024 angela n. / CC
Peoria County issues Traffic Collision Alert
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- The Peoria County Sheriff's Office has issued a traffic collision alert for Peoria County. Anyone involved in vehicle crashes, where no one is injured, should exchange informati...
Feb 16, 2024
