Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Illinois census outreach groups await delayed state funds
CHICAGO (AP) - Some of the groups tasked with helping ensure that Illinois gets a good turnout for the 2020 census haven't received their state funding yet. Census advocates worry that the lag in fund...
Feb 03, 2020 AP Photo/Seth Perlman
Peoria man shot in the leg
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police are investigating a shooting that happened Sunday night in the 900 Block of Johnson Street. Officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert just after 10 p.m. "Additionally, po...
Feb 03, 2020
Trial highlights: After drama, quick vote to block witnesses
WASHINGTON (AP) - After a dramatic night, the Senate voted quickly to block Democratic calls for new witnesses and documents at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. The 51-49 vote Friday all bu...
Feb 01, 2020 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., signals thumbs-up leaving the Senate chamber during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. The Senate narrowly rejected Democratic demands to summon witnesses for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial late Friday, all but ensuring Trump's acquittal in just the third trial to threaten a president's removal in U.S. history. But senators moved to push off final voting on his fate to next Wednesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
East Peoria Police respond to threat at high school
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Police responded to a potential threat at East Peoria Community High School Friday. East Peoria Police Detectives were called just after 12:30 p.m. to EPCHS for an inappropriate s...
Feb 01, 2020 (25 News/HOI)
WHO says prepare for local outbreaks; China slams US control
BEIJING (AP) - China's death toll from a new virus has risen to 259 and a World Health Organization official says other governments need to prepare for"domestic outbreak control" if the disease spread...
Feb 01, 2020 People wear face masks and walk at a shopping mall in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. People wear face masks as they walk through a shopping mall in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. According to the Taiwan Centers of Disease Control (CDC) Friday, the tenth case diagnosed with the new coronavirus has been confirmed in Taiwan. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
State Police search Madigan's office as part of Franks case
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois State Police executed a search warrant at House Speaker Michael Madigan state Capitol offices this week as part of an investigation into sexual misconduct, stalking a...
Feb 01, 2020 FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2016 file photo, Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, speaks to reporters in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman File)
Collins: Sunshine and near-record temps by Sunday
PEORIA, Ill. -- Our streak of cloudy days is about to end...at least for a day or two, according to news partner 25 News Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins. "We've had cloudy skies every hour, every da...
Feb 01, 2020
Second case of coronavirus in Illinois confirmed
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The first U.S. case of person-to-person spread of the coronavirus has been confirmed in Illinois. "This person-to-person spread was between two people with very close contact. A H...
Jan 31, 2020 Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, discusses the discovery of a second case in Illinois of the novel coronavirus and the public health efforts to contain and study it, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020 in Springfield, Ill., (AP Photo/John O'Connor)
Trump's defense shifts to not 'impeachable'
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump adjourned late Wednesday night with Republicans appearing focused on bringing the proceedings to a vote of acquittal, possibly ...
Jan 30, 2020 In this image from video, White House deputy counsel Patrick Philbin answers a question during the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)
China counts 170 virus deaths, new countries find infections
BEIJING (AP) - China has counted 170 deaths from a new virus and more countries have reported infections, including some spread locally, as foreign evacuees from China's worst-hit region returned home...
Jan 30, 2020 Hospital directors and provincial public health officials gather to participate in a medical preparedness meeting to face the threat of new coronavirus outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. The death toll rose to 170 in the new virus outbreak in China on Thursday as foreign evacuees from the worst-hit region begin returning home under close observation and world health officials expressed "great concern" that the disease is starting to spread between people outside of China. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
