Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Peoria crews respond to business fire Sunday afternoon
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called Sunday afternoon to the area of NE Adams and Voris Streets on reports of a roof on fire. Fire Battalion Chief Jeffrey Hascall said crews found heavy smo...
Dec 05, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Biden signs bill to block U.S. railroad strike
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden signed legislation Friday to block a national U.S. railroad strike that could have devastated the American economy. The U.S. Senate voted 80 to 15 on Thursda...
Dec 02, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A railway worker drives a train engine while loading railcars in San Diego, California, U.S., November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Blake
U.S. job growth strong in November; wages rise
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers hired more workers than expected in November and increased wages despite mounting worries of a recession, but that will probably not stop the Federal Reserve from...
Dec 02, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Signage for a job fair is seen on 5th Avenue after the release of the jobs report in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
AMT unveils new Chillicothe facility
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. -- A new $1.3 million facility will soon help better serve medical needs in Chillicothe. For 10 years, Advanced Medical Transport (AMT) was co-located with the city's fire department...
Dec 02, 2022 (25 News)
Some U.S. air marshals plan to refuse deployment to U.S.-Mexico border
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than a dozen U.S. air marshals plan to refuse deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a group representing them, a sign of challenges facing U.S. President Joe B...
Dec 02, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Asylum-seeking migrants walk out of the Rio Bravo river after crossing it to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, U.S., as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico November 22, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Biden, Macron vow unity on Ukraine and move to end subsidy tensions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Joe Biden on Thursday used the first state visit of his presidency to demonstrate unity with France's Emmanuel Macron on Ukraine, show willingness to speak to Russia's Vladimir P...
Dec 02, 2022 President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron walk down the Colonnade to the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. Doug Mills/Pool via REUTERS
Man arrested on weapons charges after chase with PPD
UPDATED 12:07 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. -- A man is facing multiple charges after an early morning incident in Peoria. According to Peoria Police, it began just after 2 a.m. Thursday when officers were called...
Dec 01, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
U.S. House panel gets access to Trump's tax returns after long legal battle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee has obtained access to Donald Trump's tax returns, following a years-long court fight with the Republican former president who has accu...
Dec 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he announces that he will once again run for U.S. president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election during an event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Peoria crews battle fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called to a home on S. Arago Street, near W. Humbolt early Thursday morning. Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Tom Stimeling said the first company on-scene around 2...
Dec 01, 2022 liz west / CC
U.S. appeals court rejects Biden's bid to revive student debt plan
(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to put on hold a Texas judge's ruling that said President Joe Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was u...
Dec 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A graduating student records the academic procession during the Commencement ceremony at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 27, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
