Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Over 1 million Americans join the ranks of the unemployed
WASHINGTON (AP) - Just over 1 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a sign that the coronavirus outbreak continues to threaten jobs even as the housing market, auto sales and ...
Aug 27, 2020 Midwest Communications
Fatal accident overnight in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- One person is dead following a late night crash in Peoria. Peoria Police responded to a single-vehicle accident in the 300 block of W. Glen, near the intersection with Knoxville, just ...
Aug 27, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Laura makes landfall in southwestern Louisiana near Texas
LAKE ARTHUR, La. (AP) - Laura has weakened to a Category 1 hurricane as its center moved deeper inland over Louisiana. That's no longer a major hurricane but it still has extremely dangerous winds hou...
Aug 27, 2020 This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, at 4:50 p.m. EDT., and provided by NOAA, shows Hurricane Laura over the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Laura strengthened Wednesday into “an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane," Laura is expected to struck Thursday morning along the Louisiana-Texas border. (NOAA via AP)
Suspect arrested after 2 are killed at Kenosha protest
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - lllinois police have arrested a juvenile after two people were shot to death during another night of Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Commander Norman Johnson of...
Aug 26, 2020 (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Authorities disperse protesters out of a park Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020 in Kenosha, Wis. Anger over the Sunday shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police spilled into the streets for a third night.
Motorcyclist dies in Woodford County crash
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. -- A Germantown Hills man was killed over the weekend when his motorcycle went off the road on Rt. 26 near Banta Road, just south of Lacon. Woodford County Coroner Tim Ruestman h...
Aug 26, 2020 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Laura now forecast to be a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Hurricane Laura is rapidly intensifying and forecasters now expect it to become a "catastrophic" Category 4 hurricane. It's already a Category 3 as it approaches Texas and Loui...
Aug 26, 2020 Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Galveston, Texas, Hurricane Laura moves toward the Gulf Coast. Forecasters say Laura is rapidly intensifying and will become a “catastrophic” Category 4 hurricane before landfall. It's churning toward Texas and Louisiana, gathering wind and water that swirls over much of the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Rep. Spain opposed to Illinois' proposed graduated income tax plan
PEORIA, Ill. -- Illinois voters will cast their ballots on a graduated income tax initiative in November. State Rep. Ryan Spain, of Peoria, said with Illinois being in such financial turmoil, approvin...
Aug 26, 2020 Rep. Ryan Spain
First lady makes her case for Trump vote
WASHINGTON (AP) - First lady Melania Trump has cast her husband as the best hope for America's future in a Rose Garden address. President Donald Trump turned to family, farmers and the trappings of th...
Aug 26, 2020 First lady Melania Trump arrives to speak to the 2020 Republican National Convention from the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Kenosha Police: 3 shot, 2 fatally, during Wisconsin protests
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - Two people died and one person was injured as shots were fired late Tuesday in Kenosha during the third night of unrest in Wisconsin following the shooting of a Black man by polic...
Aug 26, 2020 Police in riot gear clear a park during clashes with protesters outside the Kenosha County Courthouse late Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Protests continue following the police shooting of Jacob Blake two days earlier. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Collins: There's science behind the heat index
PEORIA, Ill. -- The heat index hasn't been around too long, it was created in 1979, but it's part of our summer time vernacular. News partner 25 News Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins explains that th...
Aug 26, 2020
