Author Archives: Julia Bradley
US layoffs remain elevated as 840,000 seek jobless aid
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to a still-high 840,000, evidence that job cuts remain elevated seven months into the pandemic recession...
Oct 08, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump says he won't debate virtually
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Commission on Presidential Debates says the second Trump-Biden debate will be 'virtual' amid concerns about the president's COVID-19. The nonpartisan host of the debates made the...
Oct 08, 2020 FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 5, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump removes his mask as he stands on the Blue Room Balcony upon returning to the White House in Washington, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md. Trump announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 2. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Arson likely cause of Peoria fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called just before 10:30 p.m. Wednesday to a home in the 1100 block of W. Dr. Martin Luther King Drive. When crews arrived, they encountered heavy smoke and fi...
Oct 08, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Trump seeks to salvage parts of virus aid package
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Wednesday tried to salvage items lost in the rubble of COVID-19 relief talks that President Donald Trump halted, with his administration pressing for $1,200 stimul...
Oct 07, 2020 President Donald Trump stands on the balcony outside of the Blue Room as returns to the White House Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Washington, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Without a stimulus package, Peoria will borrow $14 million in 2021
PEORIA,Ill. -- President Donald Trump has halted talks regarding comprehensive COVID relief ahead of the November election. A few days ago, Peoria City Manager Patrick Urich was still hoping the city ...
Oct 07, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
Pence-Harris debate to unfold as Trump recovers from virus
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence and his Democratic challenger, California Sen. Kamala Harris, are poised to meet for a debate that will offer starkly different visions for a country co...
Oct 07, 2020
Peoria's Santa Claus Parade will go on
PEORIA, Ill. -- Many area events have been canceled this year due to COVID-19, but Peoria's 133rd Santa Clause Parade won't be one of them. Peoria Area Community Events, the parade's organizer, said i...
Oct 06, 2020 1470-100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Barrett set to begin Oct. 12
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination, starting Monday, October 12th at 8am Central Time. The hearing is expected to l...
Oct 06, 2020 FILE - Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trumps nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, meets with Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. Barrett graduated with honors in 1994 from a small liberal arts school, Rhodes College in Memphis. Many alumni have posted a letter on social media expressing their opposition to Barrett's nomination to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court after Ginsburg's death last month.(Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)
Trump, still infectious, back at White House — without mask
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House after leaving the military hospital where he was receiving an unprecedented level of care for COVID-19. He immediat...
Oct 06, 2020 President Donald Trump stands on the balcony outside of the Blue Room as returns to the White House Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Washington, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md. Trump announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 2. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Man shot in vehicle at Taft Homes
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police responded to reports of shots fired at Taft Homes just after 1 p.m. Monday. Officers located an adult male victim who'd been shot in the arm. Peoria Public Information Of...
Oct 06, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
