Author Archives: Julia Bradley
UPDATE: Biden says Gaza militants appear to be behind hospital blast as anti-Israel protests spread
UPDATED 1:48 P.M. TEL AVIV/GAZA (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden pledged solidarity with Israel on Wednesday and said a deadly blast at a Gaza hospital seemed to have been caused by a rocket misfi...
Oct 18, 2023 People inspect the area of Al-Ahli hospital, where hundreds of Palestinians were killed in a blast that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other, in Gaza City, October 18, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Al-Masri
Peoria Council begins debate on $321M spending plan for 2024-2025
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - Peoria's proposed spending plan for the next two years went before the horseshoe for the first time a month ahead of the city's self-imposed deadline for final approval. Tuesd...
Oct 18, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Doctors recount horror of Gaza hospital blast
GAZA (Reuters) - The head of orthopedic surgery at Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in Gaza, Fadel Naim, had just finished a procedure when he heard a huge explosion and his department filled with people scr...
Oct 18, 2023 An injured person is assisted at Shifa Hospital after hundreds of Palestinians were killed in a blast at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Al-Masri/File Photo
Boys & Girls Clubs unveil expansion plans honoring a former leader
PEORIA, Ill. - The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Peoria has announced plans to name their facility at 2703 W. Grinnell Street in honor of Lesley Matuszak, who served as the organization's executive ...
Oct 18, 2023 (Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Peoria)
UPDATE: Donald Trump appears in New York court again for civil trial
Updated 9:20 a.m. (Reuters) - Donald Trump appeared in New York court on Tuesday for the third week of a civil fraud trial that could dismantle pillars of the former U.S. president's business empire. ...
Oct 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower after giving a deposition to New York Attorney General Letitia James who sued him and his Trump Organization, in New York City, U.S., April 13, 2023. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo
UPDATE: Gaza death toll rises to 3,000 with Biden due to visit Israel
UPDATED 1:11 P.M. GAZA (Reuters) -The Palestinian death toll from Israel's bombardment of Gaza climbed to about 3,000 on Tuesday, health authorities said, and at least six people were killed in an Isr...
Oct 17, 2023 Palestinians search for casualties under the rubble of a building destroyed by Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
UPDATE: One arrested after Monday morning fatal shooting
UPDATED 4:39 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria woman is under arrest for the city's 23rd homicide of the year Monday morning. Peoria Police say TNashia Wash, 18, was arrested for First-Degree Murder and ta...
Oct 16, 2023 TNashia Wash (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Israeli strikes on Gaza intensify as humanitarian crisis deepens
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces kept up their bombardment of Gaza on Monday after diplomatic efforts to arrange a ceasefire to allow foreign citizens to leave and aid to be brought into the b...
Oct 16, 2023 Smoke rises in the air following Israeli bombings in Gaza, as seen from Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel October 15, 2023. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
Former developers of Peoria's Hotel Pere Marquette go to trial Monday
PEORIA, Ill. - A trial for the former developers of the Hotel Pere Marquette is set to begin Monday. Chief U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow is overseeing the case against Gary Matthews and Monte Branna...
Oct 16, 2023 (25 News)
Hardline Republican Jim Jordan to push bid for US House speaker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hardline Republican Jim Jordan is set to take his sputtering bid for speaker to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this week, hoping to bulldoze opposition from doze...
Oct 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a prime contender in the race to be the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, speaks to reporters during a break in a House Republican Conference meeting as Republicans work to restart their effort to pick a new leader for the House after party infighting led nominee Steve Scalise to withdraw from the race for speaker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 13, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
