Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Local gas prices rise over the weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- You've probably noticed a jump in gas prices over the weekend. AAA-Illinois says the state average for regular unleaded gas is $3.97, but in the Peoria-Pekin metro area, prices are as ...
Sep 26, 2022 Mike Mozart / CC
Gunman kills 13 at Russian school
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A gunman with a swastika on his t-shirt killed 13 people, including seven children, and wounded more than 20 at a school in Russia on Monday before committing suicide, investigators ...
Sep 26, 2022 Police and members of emergency services work near the scene of a school shooting in Izhevsk, Russia September 26, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer
Wanted man arrested by PPD
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man with four warrants out for his arrest in two Illinois counties was taken into custody by Peoria Police over the weekend. On Saturday, PPD's Special Investigations Division conduc...
Sep 26, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Eureka College ready to "Run with Reagan"
EUREKA, Ill. -- Eureka College will be a buzz with runners Saturday morning...as they "Run with Reagan". The event coincides with Eureka College's 100th Homecoming this weekend. So, will someone be dr...
Sep 23, 2022 (Eureka College via Facebook)
U.S. House Republicans unveil agenda ahead of Nov. 8 elections
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives rolled out an agenda on Friday aimed at tackling a range of priorities from inflation and crime to election accountability, whic...
Sep 23, 2022 FILE PHOTO: General view of the U.S. Capitol as the House of Representatives takes up debate of U.S. President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan in Washington, U.S., March 8, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
Over 4 million Americans administered updated COVID boosters, says CDC
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday that 4.4 million people had received updated COVID-19 booster shots, a few weeks into the government's new vaccinat...
Sep 23, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A nurse fills up syringes with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines for residents who are over 50 years old and immunocompromised and are eligible to receive their second booster shots in Waterford, Michigan, U.S., April 8, 2022. REUTERS/Emily Elconin/File Photo
Repeat child porn offender sentenced to more time behind bars
PEORIA, Ill. -- A federal judge has sentenced a Peoria man to 15 years in prison for receiving child pornography while on supervised release for a similar crime. When David Robertson II, 39, is releas...
Sep 23, 2022 Midwest Communications
Russia starts annexation vote in occupied areas of Ukraine, draws condemnation
KYIV (Reuters) - Russia launched referendums on Friday aimed at annexing four occupied regions of Ukraine, raising the stakes in the seven-month-old war with what Kyiv called an illegal sham that saw ...
Sep 23, 2022 Head of the central electoral commission of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's republic Vladimir Vysotsky visits a polling station ahead of the planned referendum on the joining of the Donetsk people's republic to Russia, in Donetsk, Ukraine September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Hurricane Fiona threatens Bermuda while on course to batter Canada
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Reuters) - Hurricane Fiona threatened the Atlantic island of Bermuda on Friday, passing west of the British territory on its northward trek toward Nova Scotia while packing the pote...
Sep 23, 2022 Increasing wind pushes waves towards the south shore before the arrival of Hurricane Fiona in Bermuda September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Nicola Muirhead
Peoria Fine Art Fair returns this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria's Fine Art Fair will showcase a wide range of artists on the riverfront this weekend. "We have hundreds of applications that come in, in January...then we put them through a jur...
Sep 22, 2022 (Peoria Art Guild)
