Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Twitter lays off staff as Musk blames activists for 'massive' ad revenue drop
UPDATED 4:18 P.M. (Reuters) -Twitter Inc started a major round of layoffs on Friday, alerting employees of their job status by email after barring the entrances to offices and cutting off workers' acc...
Nov 04, 2022 Twitter app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Peoria County announces new smart app for Circuit Clerk
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- The Peoria County Circuit Clerk's Office has launched a free smartphone application that provides quick and easy information on jury duty, court dockets, electronic forms and ev...
Nov 04, 2022
South Side Mission's prepping now for Turkey Day
PEORIA, Ill. -- This year marks the 51st year that Peoria's South Side Mission will offer its Holiday Meal ministry. The Mission's Rich Draeger says they'll prepare and deliver meals to those who can'...
Nov 03, 2022 (Courtesy of South Side Mission)
Little input at Peoria cannabis meeting
PEORIA, Ill. -- It's been a topic at Peoria council for weeks, how will the city regulate cannabis dispensaries moving forward? The city wants to hear from people, and Wednesday night was the first op...
Nov 03, 2022 Elsa Olofsson / CC
Peoria juvenile shot Wednesday night
PEORIA, Ill. -- A juvenile was shot in Peoria's East Bluff Wednesday night, suffering life-threatening injuries. Peoria Police say officers responded to a pair of ShotSpotter alerts around 8:20 p.m., ...
Nov 03, 2022 Midwest Communications
Congressional candidate's campaign comes to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- With less than a week to go before the November election, one of Illinois' two candidates for the seat in Congress from the 17th District is campaigning in Peoria. Republican Esther Jo...
Nov 02, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Esther for Congress)
Pelosi attack suspect told police he was on 'suicide mission,' prosecutors say
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -The man charged with breaking into U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home and clubbing her husband with a hammer later told police he was on a "suicide mission" and had planne...
Nov 02, 2022 David Wayne DePape, 42, who is charged with breaking into U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home and clubbing her husband in the head with a hammer, wears his arm in a sling before San Francisco Superior Court Judge Diane Northway at the Criminal courts in San Francisco, California U.S. November 1, 2022 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Vicki Behringer
Hy-Vee closing all stores on Thanksgiving
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, -- Hy-Vee announced Tuesday that it will close all of its stores on Thanksgiving Day. According to a release, it's the first time in company's 92-year history that all Hy-Vee st...
Nov 02, 2022 Picture Des Moines / CC
Vehicle leads PPD on chase, then crashes overnight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police conducted a traffic stop in the area of Ann and Greenlawn just before 1:30 a.m. Wednesday for an Illinois Vehicle Code violation. Peoria Police Spokesperson Semone Roth s...
Nov 02, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
North Korea fires 23 missiles, one landing off South Korean coast for first time
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired at least 23 missiles into the sea on Wednesday, including one that landed less than 40 miles off South Korea's coast, which the South's President Yoon Suk-yeol desc...
Nov 02, 2022 People watch a TV broadcasting a news report on North Korea firing three ballistic missiles into the sea, in Seoul, South Korea, November 2, 2022. Yonhap via REUTERS
