Author Archives: Julia Bradley
PPD responds to armed carjacking Monday morning
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called around 6:30 a.m. Monday to the Westlake Shopping Center on reports of an armed carjacking. Peoria Public Information Officer Semone Roth with the PPD says a m...
Dec 13, 2021 MWC-PPD
First UK patient has died from omicron variant
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday the first patient had died after contracting the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Sky news reported. The British Health secret...
Dec 13, 2021 FILE PHOTO: An ambulance drives past St Thomas' Hospital as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London, Britain, December 12, 2021. REUTERS/May James
Chris Wallace leaving Fox News for CNN+ streaming service
(Reuters) -Veteran television journalist Chris Wallace announced on Sunday that he is leaving Fox News after about 18 years and he is set to join rival CNN's upcoming streaming service as an anchor. W...
Dec 13, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Debate moderator and Fox News anchor Chris Wallace directs the first 2020 presidential campaign debate between U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., September 29, 2020. Olivier Douliery/Pool via REUTERS
Kentucky resumes counting the dead from barrage of tornadoes
MAYFIELD, Ky. (Reuters) - Rescue workers resumed combing through debris on Monday in the scant hope of finding survivors from a battery of deadly tornadoes that tore through six states, with Kentucky ...
Dec 13, 2021 Damage and debris is seen after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripped through Bowling Green Kentucky, U.S. December 12, 2021. REUTERS/Amira Karaoud
Arson cause of overnight fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Emergency crews responded around 1:45 a.m. Monday to reports of a structure fire in the 1000 block of E. Behrends Avenue in Peoria. Firefighters found a detached single car garage engu...
Dec 13, 2021 Midwest Communications
Salvation Army promotes giving during Red Kettle Matching weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- $1.7 million. That's this year's goal of the Salvation Army's Tree of Lights Campaign. Major Health Sells, Tri-County Development Director for the Salvation Army, says a Red Kettle mat...
Dec 10, 2021
Washington mourns former U.S. Senator, presidential candidate Bob Dole
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator and Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole's funeral at Washington National Cathedral on Friday was expected to draw President Joe Biden and senior membe...
Dec 10, 2021 Military Honor Guard members carry the flag-draped casket of former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole to the a funeral service at the National Cathedral in Washington, U.S., December 10, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
U.S. Supreme Court allows challenge to Texas six-week abortion ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed abortion providers to pursue a legal challenge to a ban on most abortions in Texas, with the fate of the Republican-backed measure that a...
Dec 10, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A supporter of reproductive rights holds a sign outside the Texas State Capitol building during the nationwide Women's March, held after Texas rolled out a near-total ban on abortion procedures and access to abortion-inducing medications, in Austin, Texas, U.S. October 2, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
U.S. consumer prices increase further in November
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices increased further in November as the cost of goods and services rose broadly amid supply constraints, leading to the largest annual gain since 1982, which c...
Dec 10, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Shoppers browse in a supermarket while wearing masks to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in north St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant/File Photo
Missing Peoria Heights teen found safe
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. -- Peoria Heights Police say a teen, who'd been missing for over a month, has been found safe. Collin Hilberg was reported missing on November 5. His mother, Shannon Dunaway, told...
Dec 10, 2021 (25 News)
