Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Peoria home destroyed by fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. --Peoria firefighters responded to a report of a fire at a home in the 700 block of NE Madison just before midnight Thursday. Crews were met with heavy smoke and fire on the main floor of...
Oct 11, 2019 Midwest Communications
Mom says boy charged with murder is 'not a monster'
EUREKA, Ill. (AP) - The mother of a 9-year-old central Illinois boy charged with murder in a mobile home fire that killed five says her son is not "a monster". In interviews Thursday with local and na...
Oct 11, 2019
'Big Picture' street festival comes to the Warehouse District Saturday
PEORIA, Ill. --Peoria's Warehouse District will be filled with art this weekend. That's where the Big Picture Street Festival is being held on Saturday. One of the event's organizers, Chuck Gabbert, s...
Oct 10, 2019 Big Picture Peoria/Facebook
Washington woman dies in two-vehicle crash
WASHINGTON, Ill. - A Tazewell County woman is dead after a Wednesday morning crash. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley said 74-year-old Linda Bedwell was pronounced dead at the scene of an acciden...
Oct 10, 2019 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Retiree checks to rise modestly amid push to expand benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) - Social Security says millions of retirees will get a modest 1.6-percent cost-of-living increase in 2020 - and that comes to about $24 more a month more the average retired worker. Th...
Oct 10, 2019 GotCredit / CC
CAT maintains quarterly dividend
PEORIA, Ill. --Caterpillar, Inc. has announced that the company's quarterly dividend will stay at $1.03 per share of common stock, payable Nov. 20 to shareholders on record on Oct. 21. Since 2009, Cat...
Oct 09, 2019 (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
NATO chief says Turkey has legitimate concerns
WASHINGTON (AP) - The secretary-general of NATO is urging Turkey not to "further destabilize the region" through its military action in northern Syria. Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference in Rome ...
Oct 09, 2019 Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks on the phone with Defense Minister Hulusi Akar before reportedly giving orders for the start of the military operation into Syria, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Minutes before Erdogan's announcement, Turkish jets began pounding suspected Syrian Kurdish positions in the Syrian town of Ras al Ayn, according to Turkish media reports.(Turkish Presidency Press Service via AP, Pool)
Kurdish official says Turkey targeting civilians
WASHINGTON (AP) - A spokesman for the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led force in northern Syria says Turkish warplanes have started targeting "civilian areas" in northern Syria. Mustafa Bali of the Syrian Democ...
Oct 09, 2019 Members of Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (former FSA) flash the V-sign as they drive back to Turkey after they went in for some time on inspection according to the Turkish police entourage in the same area at the border between Turkey and Syria, in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long threatened to send troops into northeastern Syria to clear the border region of Syrian Kurdish fighters whom Turkey considers a serious security threat. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
PPS seeking input on 'snow day' learning
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Public Schools is looking for input on snow day learning from home. Last year, the Illinois State Board of Education allowed school districts to impliment 'work from home' days, ...
Oct 09, 2019
White House, Democrats spar over rules for impeachment
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House and Democrats in the House of Representatives are headed toward a battle royal over what exactly the Constitution means when it says the "sole power of impeachment" l...
Oct 09, 2019
