Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Pressure mounts on GOP senators over filling Ginsburg seat
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hammered President Donald Trump and leading Senate Republicans for trying to rush a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as...
Sep 21, 2020 Matthew Kronzek, of Washington, D.C. takes a photo at the Supreme Court as people honor the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Mail-in ballots being sent out beginning Thursday
PEORIA,Ill. -- Requests for mail-in ballots have been out several weeks now, and on Thursday, September 24, election officials will start mailing those ballots. Peoria County Election Commission's Tho...
Sep 19, 2020 Midwest Communications
McConnell vows quick vote on next justice; Biden says wait
WASHINGTON (AP) - The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just six weeks before the election cast an immediate spotlight on the crucial high court vacancy, with Senate Majority Leader M...
Sep 19, 2020 The flag flies at half-staff at the Supreme Court on the morning after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
BCDI plans move to former Midstate College campus
PEORIA, Ill. -- The former Midstate College campus on Northmoor in Peoria will soon be home to the Blood and Clotting Disorders Institute. BCDI is recognized as one of the top hemophilia treatment cen...
Sep 18, 2020 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Julia Bradley
Second stimulus could come by November, cost is the issue
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Will we see another relief package ahead of the November election? Illinois' 18th District Rep. Darin LaHood told WMBD's Greg and Dan Show, Congress is working on another stimulus,...
Sep 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
COVID-19 danger continues to drive joblessness in US
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to 860,000, a historically high figure that reflects economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak. Before t...
Sep 17, 2020 Midwest Communications
Trump disputes health officials, sees mass vaccinations soon
WASHINGTON (AP) - Openly contradicting the government's top health experts, President Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that a safe and effective vaccine against the coronavirus could be ready as early...
Sep 17, 2020 President Donald Trump gestures while speaking during a news conference at the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
After Sally: Rescue, recovery and a wary eye on rivers
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Rivers swollen by Hurricane Sally's rains threatened more misery for parts of the Florida Panhandle and south Alabama on Thursday, even as the storm's remnants were forecast to ...
Sep 17, 2020 Cars and a motorcycle are underwater as water floods a street, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Pensacola, Fla. Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecasters said would cause dangerous flooding from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi and well inland in the days ahead.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Big Ten Football set to return in October
Big Ten is going to give fall football a shot after all. Less than five weeks after pushing fall sports to spring in the name of player safety during the pandemic, the conference changed course Wednes...
Sep 16, 2020
US outlines sweeping plan to provide free COVID-19 vaccines
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government outlined a sweeping plan Wednesday to make vaccines for COVID-19 available for free to all Americans, even as polls show a strong undercurrent of skepticism ri...
Sep 16, 2020 FILE - In this July 30, 2020 photo, Kai Hu, a research associate transfers medium to cells, in the laboratory at Imperial College in London. Imperial College is working on the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. In a report to Congress and an accompanying “playbook” for states and localities, key federal health agencies and the Defense Department sketched out complex plans for a vaccination campaign to begin gradually early next year or later in 2020, eventually ramping up to reach any American who wants a shot. The Pentagon is involved with the distribution of vaccines, but civilian health workers will be the ones giving shots. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
