Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Caterpillar profit rises on construction equipment demand
(Reuters) -Caterpillar reported a rise in third-quarter profit on Tuesday, as strong infrastructure investments across key markets boosted demand for its high-end construction equipment. Demand for he...
Oct 31, 2023 A Caterpillar 777 autonomous mining truck is displayed during CES 2023, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 6, 2023. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/ File Photo
Soderstrom Castle's ready to entertain with "Addams Family" Halloween
PEORIA, Ill. - If you love the "Addams Family", Soderstrom Castle on Grandview Drive is the place to be on Halloween night in Peoria Heights. An impressive sound and light show began at the Castle ove...
Oct 30, 2023 Soderstrom Castle on Grandview Drive lit up for Halloween. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD--Julia Bradley)
Peoria area gas prices drop again this week
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Average gas prices in Peoria have dropped 7.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.44 a gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices...
Oct 30, 2023 Mike Mozart / CC
UAW-Ford deal nets union big wins on wages, benefits, investments
DETROIT (Reuters) -United Auto Workers leaders approved a tentative deal on Sunday with Ford that includes a pay hike of at least 30% for full-time workers and could more than double pay for others, i...
Oct 30, 2023 United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain joins UAW members who are on a strike, on the picket line at the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, U.S., September 15, 2023. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
'Friends' creators say Matthew Perry's death 'seems impossible'
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Family, friends and fellow celebrities on Sunday mourned the loss of Matthew Perry, the wise-cracking co-star of the 1990s hit television sitcom "Friends," a day after the actor...
Oct 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The cast of "Friends" appears in the photo room at the 54th annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles September 22, 2002. From the left are David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox Arquette, Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Fierce clashes in Gaza as Israeli forces expand ground offensive
GAZA (Reuters) -Palestinians in Gaza reported fierce air and artillery strikes early on Monday as Israeli troops backed by tanks pressed into the enclave with a ground assault that prompted more inter...
Oct 30, 2023 Palestinians check the damage at the site of Israeli strikes on houses, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 29, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Two dead, 16 hurt in shooting among Florida Halloween revelers; one man arrested
(Reuters) - Police in Tampa, Florida, have arrested a man suspected of killing two people in gun violence that sparked chaos on Sunday around a clutch of bars and clubs as people celebrated Halloween,...
Oct 30, 2023 Tony Webster / CC
Judge reinstates gag order in Trump federal election case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Sunday reinstated a gag order she imposed on Donald Trump in the Washington case accusing him of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat, denying his bid f...
Oct 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers remarks to supporters at the Club 47 USA event in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. October 11, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Democratic congressman Dean Phillips announces 2024 challenge to Biden
(Reuters) -U.S. congressman Dean Phillips of Minnesota launched his long-shot challenge to President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination on Friday, seizing on Biden's lackluster appro...
Oct 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) with the Problem Solvers Caucus and other members, speaks at a news conference on the forthcoming passage of the bipartisan emergency COVID-19 relief bill in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo
Arson destroys garage in Peoria fire
PEORIA, Ill. - Arson appears to be the cause of a fire in Peoria early Friday morning. Fire Battalion Chief Scott Strum says crews responded to reports of a garage on fire on S. Charles Street just be...
Oct 27, 2023 Midwest Communications
