Author Archives: Julia Bradley
With eye on Russia, U.S. Senate backs Finland and Sweden joining NATO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate approved on Wednesday Finland and Sweden's accession to NATO, the most significant expansion of the 30-member alliance since the 1990s as it responds to Russia's ...
Aug 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. August 2, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Sandy Hook parents seek to stop InfoWars bankruptcy payments to Alex Jones
(Reuters) - Parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre urged a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday not to allow the parent company of far-right website InfoWars to send any money...
Aug 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Alex Jones speaks with media after day six of trial at the Travis County Courthouse, in Austin, U.S. August 2, 2022. Briana Sanchez/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Police: Shooting on E. Republic in Peoria was accidental, self-inflicted
UPDATED 12:22 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. -- One person was shot in the thigh last (Wednesday) night in Peoria in a shooting that happened near Glen Oak Park. Peoria Police spokesperson Semone Roth says officer...
Aug 04, 2022 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
Suspect in July 4 mass shooting near Chicago pleads not guilty
(Reuters) -An Illinois man accused of opening fire on spectators watching an Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb last month pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to 117 counts connected to the attac...
Aug 03, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A mourner holds a sign advocating for gun control while visiting a memorial for victims of a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. July 7, 2022. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
I-EMA: Be prepared for flash flooding and severe weather
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- With the threat of severe weather still lingering this week, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, or I-EMA, is reminding people to check the forecast before they go out, and ...
Aug 03, 2022
Kansas votes to preserve abortion rights in first post-Roe v. Wade election test
(Reuters) - Kansas voters on Tuesday rejected an effort to remove abortion protections from the state's constitution, a resounding win for the abortion rights movement in the first statewide electoral...
Aug 03, 2022 Abortion-rights supporters react as early polls showed that voters rejected a state constitutional amendment that would have declared there is no right to abortion, at a Kansans for Constitutional Freedom election watch party in Topeka, Kansas, U.S. August 2, 2022. Evert Nelson/USA Today Network via REUTERS.
Biden to sign another executive order seeking to protect abortion rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden plans to sign a second executive order on Wednesday meant to address the recent Supreme Court decision to end the nationwide constitutional right to abortion...
Aug 03, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the nation on the killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a U.S. drone strike, in Washington, U.S. August 1, 2022. Jim Watson/Pool via REUTERS
Baseball-Legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully dies at 94
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Vin Scully, one of baseball's most revered broadcasters who called Dodgers' games for a record-breaking 67 years and narrated some of the sport's greatest moments, died on Tues...
Aug 03, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Vin Scully smiles in a broadcast booth during the National League MLB baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, April 25, 2007. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok (UNITED STATES)/File Photo
Peoria neighborhood evacuated after gas leak
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Fire crews were called just after 3:30 p.m. Tuesday to a home on NE Glendale Avenue, between Main and Hamilton on reports of a natural gas leak. Fire Battalion Chief Scott Strum...
Aug 03, 2022 (Midwest Communications/Flickr)
Officials address safety as students head back to school
PEORIA, Ill. -- It's a time of excitement for many families this week as thousands of school kids head back to class for the fall. Schools with the newly expanded annual calendar are starting this wee...
Aug 03, 2022 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
