Author Archives: Julia Bradley
NFL-Super Bowl ticket prices surge, on pace to be most expensive ever
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (Reuters) - Super Bowl ticket buyers are facing a price surge for Sunday's championship game owing to the dazzling, neon-lit setting of first-time host Las Vegas and 49ers fans' hope...
Feb 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A retail store selling Super Bowl XVIII souvenirs shows off a display of mannequins representing quarterbacks of both teams in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., February 8, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Trump wins Nevada, Virgin Islands to close in on Republican nomination
(Reuters) -Donald Trump won Republican presidential nominating caucuses in Nevada and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Thursday, moving closer to becoming his party's White House standard-bearer in a likely...
Feb 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally ahead of the Republican caucus in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., January 27, 2024. REUTERS/Ronda Churchill/File Photo
Fire Department closes Riverview Plaza Building in downtown Peoria. Here's what we know
UPDATED 11:45 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Fire Department shut down the Riverview Plaza Building Thursday night in downtown Peoria. It happened without prior notice to the building's tenants, which...
Feb 09, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
CEFCU makes $100K contribution to Phoenix Manor development
PEORIA, Ill. - CEFCU has committed $100,000 to help combat homelessness in Peoria. The capital equity commitment is going to Phoenix Manor, a permanent housing development that's being developed at th...
Feb 09, 2024 The former Methodist College Building in downtown Peoria is being developed into Phoenix Manor to help alleviate homelessness in the Peoria region )25 News)
UPDATE: Trump ballot disqualification bid gets skeptical US Supreme Court reception
UPDATED 12:12 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices on Thursday appeared skeptical toward a judicial decision kicking former President Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado for part...
Feb 08, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The United States Supreme Court is seen in Washington, U.S., September 22, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Marianne Williamson drops long-shot challenge to Biden for Democratic presidential nomination
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Marianne Williamson, the self-help author who gained little traction in her bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, dropped out of the r...
Feb 08, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Democratic presidential candidate and author Marianne Williamson speaks after filing to put her name on the ballot for the primary election with New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan in Concord, New Hampshire, U.S., October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Israeli forces intensify strikes on Rafah in southern Gaza
DOHA/TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Israeli forces bombed areas in the southern border city of Rafah where more than half of Gaza's population is sheltering on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netan...
Feb 08, 2024 Israeli tanks manoeuvre near the northern Gaza Strip border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Israel, February 7, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
UPDATE: Five US Marines confirmed dead in helicopter crash near San Diego
Updated at 7:41 a.m. (Reuters) -Five U.S. Marines were confirmed dead after their helicopter crashed in a remote area outside of San Diego while on a training flight during a fierce winter storm, the ...
Feb 08, 2024 Rescue crews assist with search efforts for a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter with five crew members aboard that went missing overnight, in southeast of Pine Valley, San Diego, California, U.S., February 7, 2024, in this screen grab taken from a social media video. Cal Fire/San Diego County Fire/via REUTERS
Threat to Bartonville schools found not credible. Here's what we know
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - Parents of Limestone Community High School and Oak Grove Elementary School students were alerted Wednesday night of an online threat that Bartonville Police have now determined was...
Feb 08, 2024 (File-25 News)
PPD: Arrest made in connection with shots fired near I-74
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have arrested a man for an incident on the Gale Street overpass, off I-74, almost two weeks ago. While responding to an unrelated accident there, officers say they heard s...
Feb 07, 2024 Donte Wright (1470 & 100/3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
