Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Head-on collision slows down traffic on I-474 eastbound
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- The Peoria County Sheriff's Office responded to a multiple vehicle crash on Adams Street off Interstate 474 eastbound shortly after 6 a.m. Thursday. The accident appeared to be ...
Mar 18, 2021 (25 News)
Crash and gas leak close down NE Adams in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- NE Adams Street at Woodlawn Avenue in Peoria was blocked in both directions early Thursday morning due to an accident. The crash was reported just before 6 a.m. in the area just north ...
Mar 18, 2021 (25 News)
Probe into killing of six Asian women, two others 'far from over,' Atlanta police say
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Police in Georgia sought clues on Thursday to what sparked the fatal shootings of eight people, six of them Asian woman, in a string of Atlanta-area attacks that heightened fear an...
Mar 18, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Flowers are laid at a makeshift memorial in front of the Aromatherapy Spa following the deadly shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. March 17, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Wind Advisory in effect from 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. Thursday (3/18)
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Mar 18, 2021
Peoria Walgreens held up Tuesday night
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called just after 7 p.m. Tuesday to the Walgreens in the 2300 block of War Memorial Drive on reports of an armed robbery. Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said ...
Mar 17, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
U.S. facing biggest migrant surge in 20 years: Homeland Security
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is facing the biggest surge of migrants at its southwestern border in 20 years, the homeland security secretary said on Tuesday as the Biden administration rac...
Mar 17, 2021 A migrant child, asylum-seeking from Central America, who was airlifted from Brownsville to El Paso, Texas, and deported from the U.S. with his family, rests on chairs inside the office of the Center for Integral Attention to Migrants (CAIM) in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Eight killed, including six women of Asian descent, in Atlanta-area shootings; suspect arrested
(Reuters) - Eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, were shot dead in a string of attacks on Atlanta-area day spas on Tuesday, and a man suspected of carrying out all of the shootings was ar...
Mar 17, 2021 Crime scene tape is seen outside Aromatherapy Spa after shootings at a massage parlor and two day spas in the Atlanta area, in Georgia, U.S. March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Chris Aluka Berry
Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids
(Reuters) - Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA-1273, in children aged six months to less than 12 years, the company said on Tuesday. The s...
Mar 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Nurse Ellen Quinones prepares a dose of the Moderna's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at the Bathgate Post Office vaccination facility in the Bronx, in New York, U.S., January 10, 2021. Kevin Hagen/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
PPS families weigh in on year-round schooling
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public Schools is considering moving to a "balanced calendar" in the 2022-2023 school year. Parents are being asked to give their input on the potential change in an online surv...
Mar 16, 2021 (1470 and 100.3 WMBD)
Democratic-controlled U.S. House to vote on citizenship path for 'Dreamers'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is due to vote on two immigration bills that would provide a path to citizenship for millions living illegally in the United S...
Mar 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: The dome of the U.S. Capitol Building is seen as the sun sets on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 26, 2019. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo
