Author Archives: Julia Bradley
State COVID roundup 4/17: Nearly 3,200 new cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health on Saturday reported 3,194 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, including 23 additional deaths....
Apr 18, 2021 Midwest Communications
Dr. Fauci expects decision on J&J vaccine as soon as Friday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A decision on whether to resume use of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine could come as soon as Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday, adding tha...
Apr 18, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Vials with a sticker reading, "COVID-19 / Coronavirus vaccine / Injection only" and a medical syringe are seen in front of a displayed Johnson & Johnson logo in this illustration taken October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Three dead, two injured in Wisconsin shooting
(Reuters) - Three people were killed and two wounded in a shooting at a bar in Kenosha County, Wisconsin early on Sunday, the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department said. The suspect in the shooting at S...
Apr 18, 2021 Midwest Communications
Hundreds protest Chicago police killing of 13-year-old boy
CHICAGO (Reuters) -Hundreds marched through the streets of Chicago on Friday to protest the police shooting of Adam Toledo, a day after the city released a graphic video of a police officer shooting a...
Apr 17, 2021 Adam Toledo, 13, holds up his hands a split second before he was shot by police in Little Village, a neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, U.S. March 29, 2021 in a still image from police body camera video. Image taken March 29, 2021. Civilian Office of Police Accountability/Handout via REUTERS
Update: Shooting leaves two teens injured after party in downtown Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called around 10 p.m. Friday to the area of Fayette and Madison on reports of a shooting. Upon arrival, officers observed a very large crowd in excess of 100 people ...
Apr 17, 2021 Midwest Communications
Chicago releases graphic video of police shooting 13-year-old
CHICAGO (Reuters) -Chicago officials released to the public on Thursday a graphic body-camera video showing a police officer shooting and killing a 13-year-old boy while he appeared to be raising his ...
Apr 16, 2021 Adam Toledo, 13, holds up his hands a split second before he was shot by police in Little Village, a neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, U.S. March 29, 2021 in a still image from police body camera video. Image taken March 29, 2021. Civilian Office of Police Accountability/Handout via REUTERS
UPDATE: Friday morning crash in Bartonville claims a life
UPDATE 4/16 2:15 P.M. -- The severe crash that occurred Friday morning just before 6:00 a.m. in Bartonville has claimed a life. According to Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood, 47-year-old Christophe...
Apr 16, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Chauvin waives right to testify, rests case at murder trial for Floyd arrest
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin on Thursday waived his right to testify to the jury about his part in the deadly arrest last May of George Floyd as both sides rested...
Apr 16, 2021 Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin waits during a break on the fourteenth day of his trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. April 15, 2021 in a still image from video. Pool via REUTERS
Gunman kills eight before taking own life at FedEx site in Indianapolis -police
(Reuters) -A gunman shot eight people dead and injured several others at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis before taking his own life, police said early on Friday. The incident occurred at a FedEx oper...
Apr 16, 2021 Midwest Communications
Derek Chauvin waives right to testify at murder trial for George Floyd arrest
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin on Thursday waived his right to testify to the jury at his murder trial for the deadly arrest last May of George Floyd. "I will invoke...
Apr 15, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin rises to greet jury members on the twefth day of his trial for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. April 13, 2021 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
