Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Quarantined Americans back on U.S. soil
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - Two charter flights carrying passengers from a cruise ship that was quarantined in Japan amid a virus crisis have landed in the United States. The first plane carr...
Feb 17, 2020 Buses arrive at a port as the Japan Self-Defense Forces prepare to move American passengers from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020, at Yokohama Port, near Tokyo. The U.S. says Americans aboard a quarantined ship will be flown back home on a chartered flight Sunday, but that they will face another two-week quarantine. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Peoria's Sears store closed
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) -- Shoppers hoping to snag last minute bargains arrived to a rude awakening Sunday afternoon at the Northwoods Mall Sears. The big box store, whose impending departure from the ...
Feb 17, 2020 FILE - In this May 14, 2012, file photo, shoppers walk into Sears in Peabody, Mass. Sears recorded its fourth straight year of falling profit and revenue, even as cost cutting and store closures helped narrow its loss for the fourth quarter, the company reported, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
US to fly home Americans stuck on quarantined ship in Japan
TOKYO (AP) - The U.S. says Americans aboard a quarantined ship will be flown back home on a chartered flight Sunday, but that they will face another two-week quarantine. About 380 Americans are aboard...
Feb 15, 2020 A Japanese flag with a message reading "Lack of medicine!" and a banner reading "Thank you Media" hang from the cruise ship Diamond Princess as it anchors off in quarantine in the Yokohama Port Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, in Yokohama, Japan. China's death toll from the new virus outbreak has risen to over 800, surpassing the number of fatalities in the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, as other governments stepped up efforts to block the disease. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
State officials stress fire safety for seniors
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Fire risk is higher for seniors. The Illinois Fire Marshal's Office stresses the importance of fire safety for the state's older residents. According to the U.S. Fire Administrati...
Feb 15, 2020 Midwest Communications
ISP supports fingerprint requirement for FOID cards
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The ISP wants to beef up the requirements to get a FOID card. The Illinois State Police said they've improved efforts to keep guns out of the hands of those who shouldn't have the...
Feb 14, 2020
Peoria man shot; suspects arrested
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called to the 1800 block of S. Griswold around 3:15 p.m. Thursday by a ShotSpotter alert with seven rounds fired. Peoria Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said t...
Feb 14, 2020
Virus death toll nears 1,400 in China, with 5,090 new cases
BEIJING (AP) - China has reported another sharp rise in the number of people infected with a new virus, as the death toll neared 1,400. The National Health Commission said Friday that 121 more people ...
Feb 14, 2020 In this Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, photo released by Xinhua News Agency, doctors scan a patient's lungs at Huoshenshan temporary hospital built for patients diagnosed with coronavirus in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Mainland China has reported another rise in cases of the new virus after a sharp decline the previous day, while the number of deaths grow over 900, with at least two more outside the country. (Gao Xiang/Xinhua via AP)
Iowa murder suspect arrested in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man wanted in a double homicide in Waterloo, Iowa turned himself in to Peoria Police Wednesday night. Waterloo Police obtained warrants for 36-year-old Matthew Buford III's arrest Mo...
Feb 13, 2020 Peoria County Jail
China reports 254 new deaths from coronavirus
BEIJING (AP) - China is reporting 254 new deaths and a spike in coronavirus cases of more than 15,000, after its hardest-hit province applied a new system that broadens the scope of diagnoses for the ...
Feb 13, 2020 Residents wearing masks wait at a traffic light in Beijing, China Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. China is struggling to restart its economy after the annual Lunar New Year holiday was extended to try to keep people home and contain novel coronavirus. Traffic remained light in Beijing, and many people were still working at home. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
LaHood shares views on Roger Stone case
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Several lawyers who prosecuted President Trump's longtime ally Roger Stone have quit the case after the Justice Department overruled them and said the agency would lower prison tim...
Feb 13, 2020 Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD
