Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Lawmakers carjacked in Philadelphia and Chicago surburb
(Reuters) -Delaware state police have taken into custody five suspects after U.S. Representative Mary Gay Scanlon was robbed of her automobile at gunpoint in a Philadelphia park on Wednesday. The susp...
Dec 23, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon speaks during a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on "Online Platforms and Market Power", in the Rayburn House office Building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 29, 2020. Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
FDA authorizes Merck's at-home antiviral COVID-19 pill
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized Merck & Co's antiviral pill for COVID-19 for certain high-risk adult patients, a day after giving the go-ahead to a similar...
Dec 23, 2021 FILE PHOTO: An experimental COVID-19 treatment pill, called molnupiravir and being developed by Merck & Co Inc and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP, is seen in this undated handout photo released by Merck & Co Inc and obtained by Reuters on October 26, 2021. Merck & Co Inc/Handout via REUTERS
U.S. weekly jobless claims unchanged; consumer spending rises in November
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits held below pre-pandemic levels last week, while consumer spending increased solidly, putting the economy on t...
Dec 23, 2021 A job seeker leaves the job fair for airport related employment at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., December 7, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Dream Center Peoria flooded; residents evacuated
PEORIA, Ill. -- Over 100 people, many of them children, were forced to evacuate Dream Center Peoria Wednesday due to flooding. Sprinklers were accidentally set off, flooding several parts of the build...
Dec 23, 2021 (dreamcenterpeoria.org)
U.S. Supreme Court to take up Biden vaccine mandate cases
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to take up disputes over the Biden administration's nationwide vaccine-or-testing COVID-19 mandate for large businesses and a separate ...
Dec 23, 2021 A Los Angeles County Department of Public Health worker administers a dose of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a pop-up clinic at Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, California, U.S. December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Bing Guan
Peoria home damaged by fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- A house went up in flames Wednesday afternoon in Peoria. Firefighters were called just after 4 p.m. to the 600 block of Vine Street. They found heavy smoke coming from the first and se...
Dec 23, 2021 Midwest Communications
PPD: Arrest made in July homicide
PEORIA, Ill. -- A 20-year-old man is under arrest for a fatal shooting in Peoria that happened in July. 19-year-old De'Monyae Zaire Phelps, of Peoria, was found with multiple gunshot wounds inside a v...
Dec 23, 2021 (Peoria County Jail)
Local teachers sue over Illinois' COVID mandates
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. -- Teachers in two Woodford County school districts are part of a lawsuit challenging Illinois' COVID-19 mitigation efforts as an employment requirement. According to the Peoria ...
Dec 22, 2021 Midwest Communications
Ex-Trump adviser Flynn sues Jan 6 House committee to block release of phone records
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Michael Flynn, a longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, on Tuesday sued the congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in hope...
Dec 22, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn passes by members of the media as he departs after his sentencing was delayed at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., December 18, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Peoria apartments heavily damaged by fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria apartment building went up in flames Tuesday afternoon. Firefighters were called to the 700 block of Spring Street just before 4 p.m., finding heavy fire coming from a first-f...
Dec 22, 2021 (25 News)
