Author Archives: Julia Bradley
UnityPoint Health and TCHD offering free mammograms
PEORIA, Ill. -- There's really no excuse not to get one. UnityPoint Health and the Tazewell County Health Department are teaming up for the 21st year Friday to celebrate National Mammogram Day. Diagno...
Oct 20, 2022 (UnityPoint Health)
Ukrainians face first nationwide electricity outages after Russian strikes
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainians faced their first large-scale nationwide disruptions to electricity on Thursday as officials sought to restrict supply to allow energy companies to repair power facilities ...
Oct 20, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A shopper uses a torch to see products in a supermarket as Kharkiv suffers an electricity outage, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 17, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
UK's Truss says she is resigning as PM
LONDON (Reuters) - Liz Truss said on Thursday she was resigning as British prime minister just six weeks after she was appointed, brought down by an economic program that sent shockwaves through finan...
Oct 20, 2022 British Prime Minister Liz Truss gives statement outside Number 10 Downing Street, London, Britain October 20, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Trump's company faces criminal tax trial as his legal woes mount
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's family company is set to face a criminal trial on tax fraud charges in New York starting next week that could trigger fines and further complicate the real estate f...
Oct 20, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. president Donald Trump speaks during a rally ahead of the midterm elections, in Minden, Nevada, U.S., October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
NATO allies would act if Sweden, Finland come under pressure, Stoltenberg says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO allies will act if Sweden or Finland come under pressure from Russia or another adversary before they become full members of the alliance, NATO Secretary General Jens Stolten...
Oct 20, 2022 FILE PHOTO: NATO, Swedish and Finnish flags are seen in this illustration taken May 12, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Peoria dedicates new Station 4 to the city's first black firefighter
PEORIA, Ill. -- Some refused to eat with him and didn't want to be next to him, but an African American fireman didn't stop serving his city. Decades later, his name will not be forgotten. Station 4 i...
Oct 20, 2022 (Peoria Fire Department Facebook)
Russia's Putin declares martial law in seized Ukrainian regions
KYIV/MIKOLAIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin introduced martial law on Wednesday in four Ukrainian regions he says are part of Russia as some residents of the Russian-held city of Khers...
Oct 19, 2022 A Ukrainian national flag rises over a local council's headquarter building, heavily damaged during Russia's attack in the village of Lymany near a frontline in Mykolaiv region, Ukraine October 18, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
N.Korea fires artillery shells to send 'serious warning' to S.Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired 100 more artillery shells off its west coast on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, just hours after it launched hundreds of shells into the sea off its east and...
Oct 19, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A North Korean flag flutters at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea, in this picture taken near the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, South Korea, July 19, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Pool/File Photo
Peoria's 2023 budget appears solid, thanks in part to COVID funding
PEORIA, Ill. -- With the help of COVID-19 relief money and some surprise local revenue, the City of Peoria appears to be in a good position reviewing their 2023 budget proposal, but the city is still ...
Oct 19, 2022 Scott McLeod / CC
Giant 'proton beam' coming to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- OSF HealthCare is moving into the next phase of construction for the OSF Cancer Institute as a giant proton beam is being brought to the St. Francis Medical Center campus this week. OS...
Oct 18, 2022 (Artist rendering/OSF HealthCare)
